The French Red Cross on Tuesday sent around a ton of medical aid to the Lebanese Red Cross aboard an evacuation plane carrying Lebanese expats from Paris, MTV said. The TV network said the French Red Cross made the initiative and collaborated with Lebanese Ambassador to France Rami Adwan and ...
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When will a coronavirus vaccine be ready?
Human trials will begin imminently – but even if they go well and a cure is found, there are many barriers before global immunisation is feasible Even at their most effective – and draconian – containment strategies have only slowed the spread of the respiratory disease Covid-19. With the World ...
Read More »Former world officials call on US to ease Iran sanctions to fight Covid-19
Group of former diplomats and ministers says shifting rules on medical trade could save hundreds of thousands of lives A group of 24 senior diplomats and defence officials, including four former Nato secretary generals, have urged Donald Trump to save “potentially hundreds of thousands of lives” across the Middle East ...
Read More »Europe looks past lockdowns as US and Japan brace for coronavirus trauma
Germany believes public life can gradually resume, while Spain and Italy see glimmers of hope Europe’s governments have begun to look ahead to the post-lockdown phase of their battle against Covid-19 as curves on the continent flatten, while the US braces for “peak death week” and Japan prepares to declare ...
Read More »Coronavirus: global cases pass 1.2m as Trump warns US of worse to come
New York state grateful for Chinese ventilators amid dwindling supplies as US president tells nation there will be ‘a lot of death’ Donald Trump has warned the US the worst is yet to come in the coronavirus crisis, as global cases of Covid-19 passed 1.2m and the governor of New ...
Read More »Lebanon Repatriates Nationals in Rare Flights despite Virus
Lebanon on Sunday started repatriating nationals who were stranded abroad in its first flights in weeks since it closed its international airport to stem the novel coronavirus. Many Lebanese work abroad, in the Gulf or in Africa, while thousands of youth study in Europe. The first of four planes touched ...
Read More »MEA: Flights To Paris, Madrid And Kinshasa Upcoming Tuesday
The Middle East Airlines Company announced, in a statement on Saturday, that “at the request of the Lebanese government, the Airline will operate flights to Paris, Madrid and Kinshasa, on Tuesday, April 7, 2020,” adding that “the times of these flights will be declared upon obtaining the necessary permissions from ...
Read More »More than 60,000 deaths worldwide from coronavirus – latest updates
Countries across the world continue to ramp up efforts to fight Covid-19, which has infected more than 1.1 million people and killed around 60,450, a majority of them in Europe. Here are the latest updates for April 4: Coronavirus global toll crosses 60,000 The coronavirus pandemic has killed over 60,000 ...
Read More »Germany and France accuse US of taking face masks as international tensions rise
‘We view this as an act of modern piracy. Such wild west methods can’t dominate, even in a global crisis,’ Berlin’s interior minister says Germany and France have accused the US of taking face masks already ordered by Europe as the coronavirus pandemic continued to cause rising international tensions. Politicians ...
Read More »Coronavirus: China holds national ‘wail of grief’ to remember Covid-19 victims
China held a three-minute national moment of reflection on Saturday morning to honour those killed by the coronavirus outbreak, as the global number of cases passed the one million mark with the international death toll surpassing 58,000. Citizens stood apart from one another with heads bowed at 10am local time as flags flew at half-mast and air raid sirens sounded ...
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