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Russia debates lockdown withdrawal as virus cases reach new highs
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday chaired a meeting to discuss a gradual withdrawal from lockdown as Russia registered the world’s sixth highest ...Slovakia emerges from lockdown as businesses reopen
Slovakia began opening up its economy on Wednesday after statistics showed that the small eurozone nation had the fewest COVID-19-related deaths per ...Spain foreign tourist arrivals slump 64% in March
Spain’s foreign tourist arrivals plummeted by nearly two-thirds in March as the coronavirus epidemic began spreading like wildfire, the National Statistics Institute ...Italy’s daily coronavirus death toll and new cases’ tally both rise
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 369 on Wednesday, against just 236 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency ...Spain extends coronavirus state of emergency for two weeks
Spain has extended the state of emergency imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic for two more weeks from Sunday, allowing the government ...Netherlands to begin phased easing of lockdown Monday
The Netherlands will begin a phased easing of its almost two-month-old coronavirus lockdown on Monday, according to a report by the national ...Russia’s coronavirus cases rise by more than 10,000 for fourth straight day
The number of new coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 10,559 over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to 165,929, ...Qatar Airways warns of ‘substantial’ job losses
Qatar Airways is planning to cut a “significant” number of jobs because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on travel, according to a ...Brazilian Amazon mayor pleads for world help on virus
The mayor of Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon rainforest region, asked world leaders Tuesday for help fighting the novel coronavirus, ...Spain’s daily death toll picks up after three days below 200
– The number of daily fatalities from the coronavirus in Spain picked up on Wednesday as health authorities registered 244 deaths, up ...