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EU leaders to discuss economic recovery from pandemic

7:46 pm April 10, 2020

Brussels: European Council President Charles Michel on Friday called an EU leaders’ video conference for April 23 to discuss how Europe can pick itself up from the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic. “It is time to lay the ground for a robust economic recovery,” he said in a statement a day after EU […]

Pope on Christmas: Vaccines for all; needy, vulnerable first

Pope guides locked-down world through virtual Easter

3:53 pm April 10, 2020

Vatican City: Church doors will be shut and the Vatican sealed off when Pope Francis leads 1.3 billion Catholics in Easter Sunday celebrations held under a worldwide coronavirus lockdown. Fear and confusion in the face of a disease whose toll has unrelentingly climbed towards 100,000 are reshaping society and transforming the way religion is observed. […]

Romania sets record for virus patients in ICUs

France reports first decrease in coronavirus intensive care patients

12:31 am April 10, 2020

Paris: France on Thursday reported its first fall in the number of patients in intensive care suffering from COVID-19 since the coronavirus epidemic began, with 82 fewer people in intensive care units compared with the day earlier. There are now 7,066 patients in intensive care, top French health official Jerome Salomon told reporters, adding that […]

1.6 million French may be infected with virus: doctors’ union

12:25 am April 10, 2020

Paris: More than 1.6 million of France’s 67 million people may have been infected with the new coronavirus to date, according to a projection by general practitioners’ union MG France, based on doctors’ reports. The union said in a statement that 2,048 members from around the country who had participated in an online survey reported […]

German population slightly lower as virus hits immigration

German partial unemployment ‘to exceed 2009 crisis level’

8:30 pm April 9, 2020

Berlin: Almost 650,000 businesses had applied for Germany’s reduced-hours work scheme by April 6, official figures showed Thursday, with the government expecting uptake to exceed levels seen in the 2008-2009 financial crisis. The latest figures released by Germany’s federal labour agency (BA) mark a 40 percent rise in applications, up from 470,000 on the last […]