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Poor nations need COVID-19 research to avoid system ‘breakdown’

8:06 pm April 3, 2020

Paris: Research on the prevention of treatment of COVID-19 in poor and developing nations is urgently needed to avert a “complete breakdown” of health services, a coalition of more than 70 scientific bodies said Friday. The pandemic is currently hitting Europe and the United States the hardest, straining even their health systems to the limit. […]

Full virus vaccine at least a year away says EU agency

1:04 am April 1, 2020

The Hague: It will be at least another year before a vaccine against the new coronavirus will be ready for approval and available in sufficient quantities, the EU medicines agency said Tuesday. As the number of declared coronavirus cases worldwide passed 800,000 on Tuesday, according to an AFP tally, the race is on to develop […]

France fast-tracks citizenship for foreign virus fighters

France reports record 499 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours

12:43 am April 1, 2020

Paris: France on Tuesday reported its highest daily number of deaths from COVID-19 since the coronavirus epidemic began, saying 499 more people had died in hospital to bring the toll to 3,523. There are now 22,757 people hospitalised in France with COVID-19, with 5,565 of them in intensive care, health official Jerome Salomon told reporters […]

Italy enters strict 3-day lockdown over Easter

Italy mourns its virus dead at end of fateful month

9:08 pm March 31, 2020

Rome: Italy marked a minute of silence and flew flags at half mast on Tuesday to mourn the 11,591 people who have died from the coronavirus pandemic that has drastically altered life in the Mediterranean country. The nation of 60 million people has recorded nearly a third of all fatalities caused by the disease around […]

G20 finance ministers to hold virtual talks on coronavirus crisis

2:36 pm March 31, 2020

Riyadh: Finance ministers and central bankers of the Group of 20 major economies will hold a second round of virtual talks Tuesday to push ahead the coronavirus response, the Saudi hosts said. G20 leaders last week pledged a “united front” in the fight against the pandemic, saying they were injecting 5 trillion into the global […]