With a record spike of nearly 20,000 cases in a day, India’s COVID-19 tally mounted to 5,28,859 on Sunday and the death toll rose to 16,095, while Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh announced a door-to-door survey joining several states and UTs which have opted for the exercise in their efforts to check the surge. The Centre noted that recoveries exceeded…
View More India’s Coronavirus tally reaches over 5.28 Lakh & death toll rises to 16,095
Russia has begun voting on constitutional reforms that could allow President Vladimir Putin to serve another two terms in office. The official vote is scheduled for 1 July, but authorities said they were opening polling stations a week early to stop overcrowding amid the pandemic. Opposition activist Alexei Navalny has said the changes will allow Mr Putin to be “president…
View More Russians vote on Putin’s reforms to constitution
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country can afford to take on more debt to help the EU recover from the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic. “What’s good for Europe is good for us,” she said in an interview. Germany is in a good position to help fund a large-scale economic program to aid EU countries to recover after the…
View More Chancellor Merkel urges ‘extraordinary’ German solidarity with Europe
MONDRAGONE, Italy — The Italian government sent soldiers on Friday to isolate a group of buildings in the southern town of Mondragone, where a new cluster of coronavirus among seasonal workers has sparked clashes with residents. The governor of a southern Italian region insisted on Friday that residents of an apartment complex quarantine inside for 15 days, not even venturing…
View More Italy sends army to seal off new southern cluster of Coronavirus
MOSCOW The daily coronavirus cases in Russia on Saturday remained below 7,000 for the second day in a row. Over the past day, 6,852 new cases were confirmed in the country, taking the country’s tally to 627,646, the emergency task force said in a daily report. Meanwhile, recoveries reached 393,352 after 9,200 people were discharged from hospital. With 188 more…
View More Russia confirms almost 7,000 Coronavirus cases for 2nd day
Temperatures soar across northern and western Europe with many places running around 10 to 15 degrees above average.22 hours ago Europe has been hit by a heatwave with temperatures touching 40 degrees Celcius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). On Thursday afternoon, the temperature reached 41C (107F) in Andujar in southern Spain. Across the south and west of the country, temperatures have hovered…
View More Europe sizzles in heatwaves as lockdown ends this month
Researchers at the University of Barcelona, one of Spain’s most prestigious universities, had detected the presence of the novel coronavirus in waste water samples collected here on March 12, 2019, the university said in a statement on Friday. “These results, sent to a high impact journal and published in the archive medRxiv, suggest the infection was present before knowing about…
View More Health Authorities in Spain Detect Covid-19 Traces in Barcelona’s Residual Waste as Early as March 2019
OVIEDO, Spain Spain saw new infections jumped up for the fourth day in a row on Friday, with the health authorities confirming 419 new COVID-19 cases. A total of 247,905 people have been confirmed to have the disease in Spain so far, according to the Health Ministry. The majority of new cases were detected in Aragon, Madrid, Catalonia, and Andalusia.…
View More Spain reports 419 new coronavirus cases, 8 deaths
French health authorities said in a statement the total of newly confirmed infections rose by 1,588 The number of people who died from the disease increased by 26 to 29,778 PARIS: France reported more than 1,500 new confirmed novel coronavirus cases on Friday, a spike unseen since May 30, while the number of additional fatalities linked to the virus rose…
View More France reports more than 1,500 new Covid-19 cases, a first since end-May
France and Germany expressed political and financial backing for the World Health Organization in its fight against the coronavirus on Thursday, with Berlin saying it would give a record half billion euros in funding and equipment this year. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the agency, criticised by the United States for being slow off the mark in tackling…
View More Germany & France pledge $716 million to the WHO