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Italian ports cannot be considered safe because of the coronavirus epidemic, the government said, adding that it will not let charity migrant boats dock. The decision was taken late on Tuesday after a ship operated by the German non-governmental group Sea-Eye picked up some 150 people off Libya and headed towards Italy, Reuters reports. “For...
A senior medic at the Mater hospital in Dublin has said that the ICU unit there is full with some patients being moved to the high dependency unit.
The number of novel coronavirus cases in Russia has risen by 1,175 over the past day – a record daily rise – reaching 8,672 in 81 regions, according to the crisis center. Over the past day, 86 people have been discharged from hospitals after recovering, the center said on Wednesday, adding that five patients had...
As several European borders limit travel to stop the spread of COVID-19, two of the world's biggest pulp makers say transportation logjams are delaying shipments of the raw material - the only ingredient in the toilet paper that people are hoarding to weather quarantines.
Grammy-winning singer John Prine died on Tuesday at the age 73 due to coronavirus complications.
The Bank of France said on Wednesday that the country's economy shrank around six percent in the first quarter of this year, its worst performance since the end of WWII. According to official figures, the economy dropped 0.1 percent in the last three months of 2019 as the coronavirus pandemic decimated business activity. With two...
