The world's second largest economy, China, took a huge hit due to the Covid-19 outbreak, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics. It showed a 6.8 percent drop in the first quarter of 2020 from a year earlier. That is the first such contraction since Beijing began reporting its quarterly gross domestic product...
The coronavirus outbreak in Germany has become manageable again, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday. The number of patients who have made a recovery has been higher than the number of new infections every day this week, the minister noted. “The outbreak has – as of today – become controllable and manageable again,” Spahn...
Major oil-producing nations struck a historic deal this month aimed at curbing global output in a bid to stabilize the market. RT spoke to experts to find out whether the deal could really solve the falling demand. The agreement reached by members of OPEC+ and their allies, including Russia and Mexico, represents a drop in...
Australian public life could be constrained for another year because of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned on Friday. The country has closed its borders and imposed strict social distancing measures for the past month. A total of some 6,500 infections, including 63 deaths, have been reported, according to Reuters. PM Scott Morrison...
Fire crews have been battling to contain gorse fires in the Wicklow Mountains, with the Department of Agriculture issuing an orange fire notice up until Monday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has fired his health minister after clashing with him over how to fight the new coronavirus. On Thursday, the president once again called for states to end stay-at-home orders that he said were hurting the economy. Bolsonaro has described the virus, which has killed nearly 2,000 Brazilians, as “a little flu"...
As a GP, I regularly visit care homes. At one I go to, they recently lost eight residents in a week, probably from coronavirus. But there's no testing, the staff have no protective equipment, and ministers have no strategy. When Covid struck, many things were not known, and could not possibly have been predicted. The...
