GERMANY

German population slightly lower as virus hits immigration

China chasing coronavirus praise from Germany: report

3:54 pm April 12, 2020

Berlin: Chinese representatives tried to influence German government officials to give positive comments about Beijing’s management of the coronavirus outbreak, Germany’s Die Welt newspaper reported Sunday. The virus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December and Beijing has been criticised by some — most notably US President Donald Trump — over its […]

MP records 1,357 new coronavirus cases, ten deaths

US marks record over 2,100 coronavirus deaths in one day: Johns Hopkins data

3:51 pm April 11, 2020

Washington: The US has become the world’s first country to have registered more than 2,000 COVID-19 deaths in a single day with 2,108 fatalities reported in the past 24 hours, while the number of infections in America has crossed 500,000, the highest in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data. China, where the deadly […]

European Council President Charles Michel

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 […]

UP lockdown: Firozabad admin to make violators write 'mask lagaana hai ' 500 times as fine

Germany caught up in mask fraud scheme

1:29 am April 8, 2020

Berlin: Authorities in Germany have fallen victim to a multi-million-euro fraud involving masks much needed in the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said on Tuesday. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state and one of the hardest hit, paid 14.7 million euros for some 10 million masks in March only to discover they did not exist, according to […]

German minister commits suicide after ‘virus crisis worries’

11:53 pm March 29, 2020

Berlin: Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier Volker Bouffier said Sunday. Schaefer, 54, was found dead near a railway track on Saturday. The Wiesbaden prosecution’s office said they believe he died by […]