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As of 5 p.m. (1700GMT) on Thursday, 759 patients in Britain who tested positive for the novel coronavirus have died, the Department of Health and Social Care said Friday. As of 9 a.m. (0900GMT) on […]

Declaring a war against “an invisible enemy,” President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced an army operation “Resilience” to back the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and support the population. “We are at war and faced […]

The Finnish government on Wednesday officially announced the plan to block its Uusimaa region which includes the capital area to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. The Uusimaa region is currently epidemic centre of COVID-19 […]

As the world witnessed over 41,000 cases of COVID-19 and 18,433 fatalities as of Wednesday, four countries in Europe now counted over 20,000 cases each, and they are still struggling to tackle the shortage in […]

Spain reported 7,937 new cases of coronavirus infection and 738 new deaths in the past 24 hours by midday Wednesday, raising the total to 47,610 cases and 3,434 deaths, health authorities said. New daily figures […]

Air pollution went down by 20 percent to 30 percent in Paris and its suburbs last week compared to the same period in previous years, as an anti-coronavirus lockdown imposed on March 17 had halted […]

The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Austria exceeded 5,000 on Tuesday with 28 deaths reported, according to local health authorities. Nearly 1,000 more people have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the country’s […]

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 6,820 lives in locked-down Italy by Tuesday with the cumulative number of cases reaching 69,176, according to new data released by the Civil Protection Department. Speaking at a televised press […]

The Slovenian government announced on Tuesday a package of economic stimulus measures worth roughly 2 billion euros (2.15 billion U.S. dollars) to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus epidemic. The measures include loan guarantees for […]