Health
France reports new spike in coronavirus deaths, bringing total to 1,696
French health authorities reported 365 new deaths from coronavirus on Thursday, taking the total to 1,696. The rise in the number of ...Italy’s dead overwhelm morgues as virus toll tops 8,000
An overwhelmed Italian city at the heart of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday sent more of its dead to nearby towns for ...Switzerland virus cases top 10,000
Switzerland on Thursday joined the small group of countries to declare more than 10,000 officially-recorded cases of COVID-19, as it launched plans ...Yemen’s warring parties call for truce as potential for coronavirus looms
All sides in Yemen’s long conflict offered support on Thursday for the United Nations’ call for a ceasefire to protect civilians from ...Italian scientists investigate possible earlier emergence of coronavirus
Italian researchers are looking at whether a higher than usual number of cases of severe pneumonia and flu in Lombardy in the ...US emerges as virus hotspot as infections, unemployment soar
The United States was quickly becoming a new epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic Thursday as new infections soared and unemployment claims ...US virus deaths may top 80,000 despite confinement
COVID-19 could lead to more than 80,000 deaths in the US and overwhelm hospital capacity nationally as soon as early April even ...Virus death toll passes 20,000, three billion under lockdown
More than three billion people around the world were living under lockdown on Wednesday as governments stepped up their efforts against the ...G20 in virtual huddle as virus toll tops 21,000
World leaders are to hold online crisis talks Thursday on the coronavirus pandemic that has forced three billion people into lockdown and ...Spain’s coronavirus death toll surpasses 4,000
Spain registered 655 fatalities from the coronavirus over the past 24 hours – down from over 700 on Wednesday, the health ministry ...