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BELGRADE, Serbia (AFP) — The first case of coronavirus in Serbia has been diagnosed in a man who had been in Hungary, the country’s health minister announced on Friday. “The first case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Serbia. It is a 43-year-old man from Subotica (north) who recently stayed in Hungary, in Budapest,” said Zlatibor Loncar at a press conference. The man is in solitary confinement at the Subotica hospital and his health is […]
VATICAN (AFP) — The Vatican on Friday reported its first coronavirus case, saying it had suspended outpatient services at its health clinic after a patient tested positive for COVID-19. The clinic inside the tiny city-state — which has some 1,000 residents — will be deep cleaned, while the emergency room will remain open, spokesman Matteo Bruni told AFP. The patient tested positive on Thursday. The clinic is used by priests, residents and employees — including […]
SARAVEJO, Bosnia (AFP) — Bosnia reported on Thursday its first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, in a man who recently traveled to Italy and his child. “It is a middle-aged man who worked in Italy from where he returned in late February,” Alen Seranic, the health minister of Bosnia’s Serb-run half, told reporters. The patient lives in the northwestern region of Banja Luka where he was hospitalized and is held in isolation, the minister […]
by Marie JULIEN INGENHEIM, France (AFP) — A French high-speed TGV train derailed early Thursday after an embankment collapsed into the tracks in eastern France, seriously injuring the driver and hurting 21 others. The bullet train was heading to Paris at around 270 km/h (170 mph) when the locomotive ran off the tracks near Ingenheim, around 30 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of Strasbourg. The driver sustained a crushed chest and was evacuated by helicopter in […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy on Thursday reported 41 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, its highest single-day total to date, bringing the number of fatalities in Europe’s most affected country to 148. The number of cases also jumped by a new high of 769, reaching 3,858 over the past two weeks. The latest figures mean Italy has the second-most deaths behind China, where the new virus was first detected at the end of last […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain on Thursday announced its first death from coronavirus within the country, as the total number of confirmed cases jumped to 115. “I am very sorry to report a patient in England who tested positive for COVID-19 has sadly died,” England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty said in a statement. The patient, being treated in the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, west of London, was elderly and had “underlying health […]
by Dmitry ZAKS ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy on Wednesday closed all schools and universities until March 15 as the number of deaths from the new coronavirus in the Mediterranean country hit 107. The measure is the most restrictive response to COVID-19 of any European nation and tougher than the closure of schools — but not universities — taken by fellow Group of Seven (G7) member Japan. Italy reported 28 more deaths on Wednesday — […]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — German airline giant Lufthansa said Wednesday it would ground 150 of its more than 750 planes worldwide, days after announcing a slimmed-down timetable over the effects of the novel coronavirus. “25 long-haul aircraft and 125 short- and medium-haul aircraft” will no longer fly, a spokesman for the group also including carriers Eurowings, Austrian and Swiss told AFP. Shares in Lufthansa have plunged in recent days as the likely impact […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — At least two staff working for the EU administration in Brussels have tested positive for the novel coronavirus and are receiving treatment, European officials said Wednesday. One case, a man working at the European Defence Agency (EDA), had returned from Italy on February 23. The second, who works in security for the European Council, is thought to have been infected in Brussels after having contact with the first man. Meetings at […]
WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — Poland on Wednesday announced its first case of coronavirus while adding that nearly 70 people were being tested for the disease. The man, who had visited Germany, is “not part of a risk group” and his life is not in danger, Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski told a news conference. He indicated the man was not elderly, whose lives are at greater risk. He was hospitalized in the western city of Zielona […]
by Françoise KADRI ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy, which does not make face masks, is getting 800,000 of them from South Africa but needs at least 10 million more, a top Italian civil protection official told AFP on Tuesday. “We received 400,000 from South Africa (on Monday) and will receive as many” on Wednesday, Civil Protection Department director Luigi D’Angelo said in a telephone interview. He said the supplies are being delivered to Rome’s Fiumicino […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy on Tuesday reported a jump in the number of deaths from the novel coronavirus to 79, with more than 2,500 people infected — the most of any country in Europe. The civil protection agency said 27 people had died since Monday. The number was up on the 18 deaths reported over the preceding 24-hour span, from Sunday to Monday. Most of the deaths — 55 — have been recorded in […]
