The northern town of Bsharri will be isolated as of Saturday morning in order to contain a coronavirus outbreak there, its mayor said on Friday. “Bsharri will be placed on lockdown as of 6:00 am tomorrow and exit and entry will be prohibited,” Bsharri municipal chief Freddy Kayrouz said. “500 ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, said via her Twitter account today: “In the time of Corona, the responsible media remains at a distance from the public official…Your health is important to us, for this epidemic is not a joke!” NNA Read More »
France and Netherlands at odds on finance ministers’ €500bn compromise France and the Netherlands have openly clashed over the meaning of a messy compromise struck by finance ministers which has unlocked a €500bn (£438bn) pandemic rescue package for European economies but left major issues unresolved. Hours after a breakthrough was ... Read More »
President at odds with advisers as global death toll nears 100,000 America’s top infectious disease expert has cautioned against any move to relax restrictions on peoples’ movements, echoing calls from other global public health officials but putting him at odds with Donald Trump, who is agitating for a reopening of ... Read More »
Antonio Guterres says Covid-19 represents ‘fight of a generation’ as China wades into row between WHO and Taiwan The head of the United Nations has called the coronavirus pandemic the “fight of a generation” and a threat to world peace and security. The secretary general, Antonio Guterres, warned the ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that 7 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon, bringing the total number of cases to 582. The ministry also noted that no death among Coronavirus patients was reported. LBC International Read More »
Carly Fuglei was with a group of Danish friends in Beirut last month when she first considered moving back to the United States. They were preparing to leave Lebanon amid fears of a major coronavirus outbreak there, and tried to convince her to do the same. But the 28-year-old humanitarian ... Read More »
The number of confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus were reported to have exceeded 1.5 million globally and the death toll rose above 89,400, according to a Reuters tally as of 1400 GMT. EUROPE * Spain’s prime minister warned that nationwide confinement would likely last until May even though he ... Read More »
Some African countries could see a peak in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks and testing should be urgently increased in the region, World Health Organization officials said on Thursday. “During the last four days we can see that the numbers have already doubled,” Michel Yao, the WHO Africa programme ... Read More »
One January lunchtime in a car parts company, a worker turned to a colleague and asked to borrow the salt. As well as the saltshaker, in that instant, they shared the new coronavirus, scientists have since concluded. That their exchange was documented at all is the result of intense scrutiny, ... Read More »
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