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COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

BA parent IAG to cut flight capacity 75 per cent in April/May

4:51 pm March 16, 2020

London: IAG, owner of British Airways and Spanish carrier Iberia, said Monday it would slash the group’s flight capacity by 75 percent during April and May owing to the coronavirus outbreak. “For April and May, the Group plans to reduce capacity by at least 75 percent compared to the same period in 2019,” it said […]

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

Belgium finally agrees government — to fight virus

4:43 pm March 16, 2020

Brussels: After more than a year without a full government, Belgium’s bickering parties have agreed to back caretaker prime minister Sophie Wilmes and give her “special powers” to fight the coronavirus. Attempts to negotiate a new ruling coalition will be suspended for six months so that 10 parties — excluding the Dutch-speaking far-right and the […]

Italy sees slowdown in rate of new virus cases

Italy hits one-day record with 368 new coronavirus deaths: official data

11:49 pm March 15, 2020

Rome: Italy on Sunday recorded 368 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, its highest one-day increase to date, taking the total to 1,809, the most outside China, official data showed. The number of infections has reached 24,747, a count released to the media by Italy’s civil protection service said. The northern Lombardy region around Milan […]

Coronavirus: China reports 4 deaths, 31 new cases

Spain reports 2,000 new virus cases and more than 100 deaths

9:32 pm March 15, 2020

Madrid: Spain on Sunday reported some 2,000 new coronavirus cases and more than a hundred deaths over the last 24 hours, the latest spike in Europe’s second-most affected country after Italy. The new figures raise Spain’s number of COVID-19 infections to 7,753 — and its death toll to 288 — after the government imposed a […]

Global coronavirus death toll passes 6,000

9:22 pm March 15, 2020

Paris: A spike in deaths from the coronavirus in Spain has pushed the global toll past 6,000, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources. The worldwide death toll rose to 6,036, with 159,844 infections after 105 died in Spain. While China remains the country with the most deaths with 3,199, the pandemic is […]