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A staff member displays a sample of the COVID-19 inactivated vaccine at a vaccine production plant of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) in Beijing, capital of China, April 10, 2020. Photo:Xinhua As the number of coronavirus infection cases rapidly approaches two million worldwide and as the world grows more desperate by the day for a […]

The French president said African economies must be given “some breathing space” as the coronavirus pandemic triggers the steepest slowdown since World War II. © French presidency, AFP International creditors must relieve African countries of debt payments this year to help them deal with the coronavirus pandemic, French President Emmanuel Macron said in a wide-ranging interview with RFI […]

Fans of Independiente de Medellin soccer club – quarantined in Argentina – shout to journalists from a hotel in Buenos Aires, Tuesday, April 14, 2020.   –   Copyright  Natacha Pisarenko/Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved  European states are beginning to ease lockdown restrictions even as the global death toll from the deadly coronavirus approaches 130,000 people, with […]

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo)  President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has directed a halt to U.S. payments to the World Health Organization pending a review of its warnings about the coronavirus and China. Trump said […]

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — The NYC Health Department is ready to attribute thousands more deaths to coronavirus. These are deaths of people at nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or private homes who never received a test but are likely to have died of coronavirus in the last month. While these deaths have not been […]

  Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund, warned on Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic is a crisis ‘like no other’ facing the global economy [File: Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) did not mince words on Tuesday about its dire outlook for a coronavirus-ravaged world […]

Kuwaitis, arriving from Europe, stand a safe distance apart to give their details to ministry of health officials in a makeshift coronavirus testing center. (File photo: Reuters) Kuwait plans to repatriate 40,000 of its citizens on 188 flights between April 16-25, Kuwaiti newspaper Alqabas reported on Sunday, citing an official unnamed source. The source said […]

© Global Look Press / imago-images.de / Ralph Peters A “highly transmissible” and “virulent respiratory illness” for which there is no cure may incite a global pandemic. That was the assessment of a 2008 US intelligence report. The prediction was accurate — but no one was prepared. The 2008 report by the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) warned that […]

Health Minister Salvador Illa (l) and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska at a press conference on the coronavirus outbreak.EFE  On Monday, Spain recorded its lowest number of new coronavirus infections since the beginning of the crisis – 3,477 in 24 hours, according to Health Minister Salvador Illa. But in most cases – both daily infections and the overall […]

ABU DHABI, 14th April, 2020 (WAM) — The United Arab Emirates, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, has dispatched an aid plane carrying approximately 27 metric tonnes of medical supplies to Somalia. The aid, which consisted of seven metric tonnes from the UAE and 20 metric tonnes from the World Health Organisation, will help […]