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BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday urged China to be as transparent as possible about the coronavirus outbreak, as Beijing faces mounting pressure over its management of the crisis. Critics have accused China of downplaying the scale and scope of the outbreak when it first emerged late last year, while conspiracy theories have swirled in the US the virus could have been leaked from a lab. Merkel urged for more information […]
by Stuart WILLIAMS Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — France on Monday announced it had become the fourth country worldwide to register over 20,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus, after recording 547 new fatalities in the epidemic. “Tonight, our country has passed a barrier that is symbolic and particularly painful,” top health official Jerome Salomon told reporters. He announced that the country’s total death toll was 20,265, while welcoming new falls in the numbers […]
by Robin MILLARD Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization insisted Monday that it sounded the alarm on the novel coronavirus right from the very start and had hidden nothing from Washington about the deadly pandemic. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there were no secrets at the UN agency after being blasted by the United States for allegedly downplaying the initial COVID-19 outbreak in China. “We have been warning from […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain said 399 people died of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours in what was the lowest daily number of deaths in four weeks, the government said on Monday. The latest figures, which showed a slight drop from Sunday when 410 people died, brought further relief to a country which has suffered the third-highest number of virus deaths in the world after the United States and Italy. “Today for the first […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy’s official daily toll from the novel coronavirus edged down to 433 on Sunday, the lowest figure in one week. The total number of deaths reported by the civil protection services since the start of Italy’s health crisis in February now stands at 23,660 — second only to the United States. Sunday’s fatalities figure was the second-lowest in one month. The 3,047 new virus infections represented a rise of just 1.7 […]
by Catherine TRIOMPHE with Mariette LE ROUX in Paris and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Hard-hit European nations and the US epicenter New York reported headway Sunday in their battle against the deadly pandemic. Governments across the world are now debating how and when to ease lockdowns that have kept more than half of humanity — 4.5 billion people — confined to their homes and crippled the global […]
Paris, France (AFP) — More than 30 studies are under way in France — of a world total of 860 — in search of drugs to treat the COVID-19 disease sweeping the world, infectologist Florence Ader said Sunday. The research is “extremely active” in France involving some 1,600 patients, Ader told a news conference. Ader heads up a study dubbed Discovery in collaboration with several other European countries, with researchers conducting clinical trials of four […]
(Eagle News) — The UK government has launched a “new Vaccine Taskforce” meant to “drive forward, expedite and co-ordinate efforts to research and then produce a coronavirus vaccine.” In a statement, the UK government revealed that “21 new research projects combating coronavirus will receive government funding from a £14 million pot investment to rapidly progress treatments and vaccines.” “This follows the government’s £250 million pledge to develop a vaccine, putting the UK at the […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said there were grey areas in China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and that things “happened that we don’t know about”, speaking in an interview with the Financial Times published Thursday. “Let’s not be so naive as to say it’s been much better at handling this,” he said of China’s management of the outbreak. “We don’t know. There are clearly things that have happened that we […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The coronavirus outbreak has claimed another 753 lives in the last 24 hours in France, bringing the country’s total fatalities to 17,920, top French health official Jerome Salomon said Thursday. But the number of virus patients hospitalized dropped by 474 and the number in critical care fell by 209, the health ministry’s number two official said. “The spread of the virus is stabilizing at a high level,” he added. Among the […]
by Alice RITCHIE Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The British government on Thursday was expected to extend a nationwide lockdown for another three weeks, while the country’s coronavirus death toll spiked by 861 — a greater increase than in recent days. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is standing in for Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he recuperates after spending a week in hospital with COVID-19, met with ministers and officials to finalize the […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s coronavirus death toll soared past 19,000 on Thursday with another 551 deaths, but questions over the counting method have raised some regional concerns the real figure is much higher. After nearly five weeks of confinement, the rise in deaths and infections has slowed over the past fortnight, with the overnight fatalities taking the toll to 19,130. But regional authorities in Madrid and Catalonia said they each had thousands more […]
