Virus

UK researchers aim to infect volunteers to study Covid exposure

  LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- British researchers on Tuesday said they hope to expose healthy volunteers to the virus…

Italy’s Lombardy region to impose virus curfew

ROME, Italy (AFP) -- Italy's northern Lombardy region prepared Tuesday to impose a nighttime curfew, the most restrictive anti-coronavirus measure…

Europe tightens virus curbs as global cases top 40 million

  by Agence France Presse bureaus DUBLIN, Ireland (AFP) -- A number of European countries took urgent new measures on…

China’s super rich got $1.5 trillion richer during pandemic: report

BEIJING, China (AFP) -- China's super wealthy have earned a record $1.5 trillion in 2020, more than the past five…

Canada tops 200,000 Covid-19 cases

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) -- Canada, in the midst of the second wave of Covid-19 illnesses, topped 200,000 cases and inched…

Madrid hospital struggles with surge in virus cases

by Thomas PERROTEAU LAGANES, Spain (AFP) -- At Severo Ochoa hospital in a Madrid suburb badly-hit during the pandemic's first…

Pres. Duterte assures Red Cross that gov’t to pay Philhealth’s P930-M debt for COVID tests

  (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte made the assurance that the Philippine government will pay the Philippine Red Cross…

New restrictions as Europe surges past 250,000 virus deaths

  by Agence France Presse Bureaus BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) -- Belgium imposed a nationwide overnight curfew on Monday as Switzerland…

Italian PM announces stricter measures to counter virus

ROME, Italy (AFP) -- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Sunday announced a new series of measures to tackle the…

Coronavirus survives on skin five times longer than flu: study

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- The coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found, in a…

Australia’s second-biggest city eases lockdown as virus cases fall

  MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) -- Lockdown restrictions in Australia's second-biggest city were eased slightly Sunday following a steady decline in…

South Africa passes 700,000 coronavirus cases

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) -- The number of people in South Africa who have tested positive for coronavirus has topped…

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