Inadequate Government Response Creates Risk of Hunger for Many Millions of Lebanon’s residents are at risk of going hungry due to pandemic-related lockdown measures unless the government urgently puts in place a robust, coordinated plan to provide assistance, Human Rights Watch said today. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an already ...

Public Health Minister, Dr. Hamad Hassan, pointed out that the crisis cell in Bcharre is a scientific, accurate and reliable group, considering that “finding positive cases does not call for worry but rather helps us detect the source of these infections and tracking them.” Minister Hassan conducted a tour in ...

Even with the death toll still climbing, Europe’s home confinement measures to combat the coronavirus appear to be bearing some fruit. The initial flood of hospital admissions is starting to slow and infection rates in some countries are flattening. Some are beginning to hope that lockdowns could be eased soon. ...

A tried-and-tested German model of sending workers home in exchange for job guarantees during downturns could help the European Union limit the damage from the coronavirus pandemic. EU ministers voiced support in principle on Tuesday for a plan to raise 100 billion euros ($109 billion), against 25 billion euros of ...

It’s likely Covid-19 originated in bats, scientists say. But did it then jump to pangolins? In the public mind, the origin story of coronavirus seems well fixed: in late 2019 someone at the now world-famous Huanan seafood market in Wuhan was infected with a virus from an animal. The rest ...

International trade body predicts commerce could shrink up to 32% and warns against 30s-style protectionism International trade has dried up as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and could be on course for a collapse as severe as that of the 1930s Great Depression, the World Trade Organization has said. ...

The US suffered its highest daily death toll from coronavirus on Tuesday, with 1,858 people succumbing to the disease, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. The new peak in deaths was propelled by New York City, which remains the most stricken part of the country and which ...

British foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday he was confident that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in intensive care with a coronavirus infection, would pull through because “he’s a fighter”. “He remained stable overnight. He’s receiving standard oxygen treatment and breathing without any assistance. He has not required any mechanical ...

China has reported no new deaths from coronavirus for the first time since it began issuing daily briefings on the outbreak more than two months ago. In its latest update, the country’s health ministry said there were 32 confirmed cases and 12 suspected cases recorded over the last 24 hours. All ...

A new study on mice offers hope for a vaccine against coronavirus, according to the researchers behind it. The latest research successfully protected mice against a lethal dose of Mers, a very close relative of the new coronavirus that causes Covid-19. Scientists suggest that the same delivery method could work ...