Category: World News

By Giselda Vagnoni ROME (Reuters) – Italy recorded a jump in deaths from coronavirus of almost 800 on Saturday, taking the toll in the world’s hardest-hit country to almost 5,000. … Read More

By Belén Carreño and Nathan Allen MADRID (Reuters) – Death arrived slowly at the nursing home where Chelo Megia works. Then it was everywhere. On March 11, a Wednesday, Megia … Read More

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the Netherlands rose by 573, or nearly 16%, to 4,204, Dutch health authorities said in a daily update on … Read More

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The lockdown of Belgium due to the coronavirus epidemic will continue for at least the next eight weeks, health minister Maggie De Block told the De Zondag … Read More

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore reported 23 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, mainly imported and taking the city state’s tally of the infection to 455, according to a health ministry … Read More

By Lidia Kelly and Jonathan Barrett MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia ordered pubs, cinemas, churches and casinos to close and two more states said on Sunday they would shut their borders, … Read More

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In normal times massive unemployment and a collapse in economic output would be tragic. This time, as the coronavirus cloisters millions of Americans and … Read More

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States’ offer to help Iran in its fight against the new coronavirus pandemic is strange, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said … Read More

By Guy Faulconbridge and James Mackenzie LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) – The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned in the new epicentre … Read More

By Alistair Smout and James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) could be “overwhelmed” by the coronavirus like the Italian health system in just two weeks, Prime … Read More