The world will take years to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned. Angel Gurría, OECD secretary general, said the economic shock was already bigger than the financial crisis. He told the BBC it was “wishful thinking” to believe that countries would bounce ... Read More »
A European clinical trial involving some 3,200 people has been launched to test four possible experimental treatments against the coronavirus. The four treatments to be studied are remdesivir, lopinavir and ritonavir in combination, the latter being administered with or without interferon beta and hydroxychloroquine, French public health research body Inserm ... Read More »
Lebanon now has a total of 248 coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, as confirmed by the Ministry of Public Health on Sunday, March 22nd. In its daily COVID-19 report, the Health Ministry stated: “From February 21st until March 22nd, 2020, the total of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases has reached 248 after 18 cases ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, warned in an interview with “Radio Lebanon” on Sunday, against “the danger of accelerating our move towards the fourth stage of the spread of the Coronavirus if we do not take the necessary measures, whether on part of the state and all its ... Read More »
On Saturday afternoon, Prime Minister Hassan Diab asked the security forces to enforce stricter measures to keep the Lebanese people at home as the confirmed cases of Coronavirus reached 248. This came as a consequence of many in Lebanon ignoring these past days the must of social distancing and self-quarantine, ... Read More »
The offer by the United States to help Iran fight the coronavirus pandemic is strange, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech on Sunday, describing U.S. leaders as “charlatans”. Despite heightened tensions between the longtime foes, Washington has offered humanitarian assistance to Iran while it struggles ... Read More »
Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus at the request of the worst-affected region Lombardy. The Caribbean island has sent its “armies of white robes” to disaster sites around ... Read More »
The number of deaths from coronavirus in Spain has jumped to 1,326, up from 1,002 in the country’s biggest one-day rise so far. According to data from the Health Ministry, the number of registered cases in the country rose to 24,926 on Saturday, from the figure of 19,980 announced on ... Read More »
Suspected short-range missile launches come as Pyongyang announces legislature to meet in April amid coronavirus pandemic North Korea fired two projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s military reported. The launch on Saturday follows two ... Read More »
On Saturday morning, March 21st, the Ministry of Public Health released its daily coronavirus (COVID-19) report, announcing the total of positive cases to be 187 in Lebanon. Several hours later, the ministry issued a follow-up report, adding 19 new cases to the total. As the new report explained, a new ... Read More »
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