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EU plans for relaunch of European tourism
The EU cranked up plans to relaunch tourism in Europe Monday with the launch of ’Re-open EU’, an online platform offering information on borders and…
Disease puts 1 in 5 globally at severe COVID-19 risk: study
An estimated 1.7 billion people – more than 20 percent of the world’s population – risk becoming severely infected with COVID-19 due to underlying health…
New coronavirus outbreak in China fans fears of second wave
Authorities across the capital rushed to test thousands of people linked to a major wholesale market suspected to be the origin of the outbreak.The number…
U.N. warns coronavirus may push millions of children into underage labor
The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of children at risk of being pushed into underage labor, reversing two decades of work to combat the practice…
Overworked, underpaid Brazil nurses risk lives to care for patients
Bossan works three jobs to provide for his wife and two-year-old daughter — at two different hospitals and a mobile emergency unit. Double and triple…
Fresh wave of coronavirus food waste funding awarded
The first wave of funding under the government’s COVID-19 Emergency Surplus Food Grant has been confirmed today, with nearly 90 not-for-profit organisations across England set…
Singapore is checking waste water with people’s poo for coronavirus
From mass testing tens of thousands of its migrant workers to using serological tests to uncover links between its virus clusters, Singapore has deployed varying…
EU says China, Russia behind coronavirus ’disinformation campaigns’
In an unusually blunt statement, the EU said China and Russia were engaged in ”targeted” campaigns to spread health hoaxes and false information about the…
J&J moves up start of coronavirus vaccine human trials to July
Johnson & Johnson moved up the start of human clinical trials for its experimental vaccine against the highly contagious coronavirus by two months to the…
Panama isolates migrants in remote jungle coronavirus unit
Panama has isolated nearly 200 migrants in a jungle camp to contain a novel coronavirus outbreak among a much larger group of Africans, Cubans and…
Coronavirus may have been in Wuhan in August, study suggests
Coronavirus may have been present and spreading in Wuhan as early as August last year, according to a study that analysed satellite imagery of car…
Coronavirus: World Bank confirms deepest recession since World War Two
The COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5.2 per cent this year, representing the deepest recession since World War Two, and triggering a…
Coronavirus: WHO advises to wear masks in public areas
The World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice on face masks, saying they should be worn in public to help stop the spread of…
G20 pledges more than $21 billion for coronavirus fight
G20 finance ministers and central bank governors held a virtual meeting in March amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Group of 20 rich and emerging economies…
Coronavirus: EU to start allowing in outside travellers from July
The European Union will not fully open internal borders before the end of June, meaning restrictions on travel to and from other countries will only…
Coronavirus vaccine: AstraZeneca boosts potential supply to 2bn
AstraZeneca said it will be able to supply two billion doses of a potential virus vaccine following two new deals. Last month, AstraZeneca said it could…
Coronavirus: Hard-hit Sweden admits it could have battled COVID-19 better
The architect of Sweden’s coronavirus strategy today admitted there was ”potential for improvement” over the country’s handling of the crisis. Unlike most of its European…
Swedish coronavirus testing hits record but still far below target
Sweden’s testing for the new coronavirus rose last week to its highest level since the outbreak began but still fell far short of the target,…
EU’s Von der Leyen to unveil trillion-euro recovery plan
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen will on Wednesday propose a roughly one-trillion-euro post-virus recovery fund for Europe, but will have to win over…
Global report: WHO says the Americas are centre of pandemic as cases surge
The Americas have emerged as the new centre of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, as a US study forecast deaths…
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