Tag: COVID-19

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  “UK not past the virus peak”, so no lifting of lockdown anytime soon, Raab

  

  The British government warned on Monday it would not be lifting a nationwide lockdown anytime soon as the country remains in the grip of a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 11,000 lives.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Macron extends lockdown to curb coronavirus until May 11

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced he was extending a lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak until May 11, adding that progress had been made but the battle not yet won.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 07:51 UTC

  Hopkins University reports over two million coronavirus confirmed cases and 120.000 deaths

  

  The number of coronavirus cases globally spiked to two million on Monday evening. According to Johns Hopkins University, which has been keeping a tally of the number of coronavirus cases around the world, the number of confirmed cases jumped to 2,019,320

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 10:31 UTC

  Bolsonaro again criticizes social isolation by taking to the streets of Brasilia

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro again took to the streets of Brasilia, drawing crowds and greeting followers in his latest public pushback against social isolation measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 10:30 UTC

  EU agrees massive emergency Euros 500bn fund; Germany says “nein” to mutual guaranteed coronabonds

  

  European Union finance ministers have agreed on a massive emergency package designed to ensure that member-states hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic will have the necessary resources to rebuild their economies.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 10:20 UTC

  LATAM suspends all international flights until May

  

  Latin America's biggest airline, the Brazilian-Chilean group LATAM, is suspending all international flights until May because of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 10:05 UTC

  On Easter Sunday, US death toll surpasses 22.000; May first, tentative date for relaxing stay at home restrictions

  

  Americans spent Sunday on lockdown as the US toll from the COVID-19 pandemic surpassed 20,000 deaths and more than half a million confirmed cases. With almost all the country under stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of the disease, many turned to online church services to mark the holiest day in the Christian calendar.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Brazilian 97-old great grandmother survives COVID-19 and is discharged from hospital

  

  When 97-year-old Brazilian Gina Dal Colleto was hospitalized on Apr first with coronavirus symptoms, few could have thought she would survive the deadly virus. But on Sunday, Dal Colleto was pushed in a wheelchair out of Sao Paulo's Vila Nova Star hospital to applause from doctors and nurses, becoming the oldest known survivor of COVID-19 in Brazil, the Latin American country worst-hit by the outbreak.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 09:39 UTC

  Food Prices declines sharply in March except rice as countries stockpile

  

  World food prices declined sharply in March, driven mostly by demand-side contractions linked to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the drop in global oil prices due mostly to expectations of economic slowdown as governments roll out restrictions designed to respond to the health crisis.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Peruvian police arrest Chinese citizen illegally conducting COVID-19 tests with stolen kits

  

  Police in Lima on Sunday arrested a Chinese citizen for illegally conducting rapid COVID-19 tests on the public with newly-delivered kits stolen from Peru's health ministry. Zhang Tianxing, 36, was arrested in the Brena district of Lima as he was about to take samples from two women at the door of their house, police said.