Fri 06 March 2020: Germany on Friday reported 134 new confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, the Robert Koch Institute said. The number of cases rose to 534, up from 400 reported on Thursday evening. More than half of the cases, 281, are in the western region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state. Think […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: Another senior Iranian politician has died of the coronavirus amid reports that 8% of the country’s parliament has been infected. Hossein Sheikholeslam, a diplomat and the country’s former ambassador to Syria, died Thursday, according to state news agency Fars. Sheikholeslam worked as an adviser to Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan tweeted on Friday that he had discussed cooperation in fighting the new coronavirus with US billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates federation, which has reported at least 27 coronavirus cases. “My good friend […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: Two different types of coronavirus strains could be causing infections worldwide, according to researchers at China’s Peking University. “Almost 70 percent of the analyzed strains were linked to a more aggressive type of coronavirus, dubbed as the “L type”, while the remaining 30 percent had been caused by a lesser aggressive […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: A Saudi Arabian official condemned on Thursday Iran for not stamping the passports of Saudi nationals entering Iranian territory, in light of Riyadh confirming in past few days the detection of coronavirus cases in five Saudi nationals who returned to the Kingdom from Iran through Bahrain and Kuwait without declaring to the relevant […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: Saudi Arabia re-opened early morning Friday the two holy mosques after they were temporarily closed for sterilization amid the coronavirus outbreak, al-Ekhbariya state TV reported. The Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina were closed after Thursday’s night prayer for cleaning and sterilization. However, the courtyard around the Kaaba, […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: (AFP) The new James Bond movie delayed. Studios scrapping film festivals. Blockbuster productions shut down. Hollywood is being rocked by the unprecedented challenge of the new coronavirus, insiders told AFP this week. “I have never seen anything where this many films are going to be affected all at once,” said Jeff […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: World health officials have warned that countries are not taking the coronavirus crisis seriously enough, as outbreaks surged across Europe and in the United States where medical workers sounded warnings over a “disturbing” lack of hospital preparedness. Global markets tumbled again over concerns about the impact on the economy and as […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: (REUTERS) The coronavirus epidemic could rob passenger airlines of up to $113 billion in revenue this year, an industry body warned Thursday, more than three times a projection it made just two weeks ago as the virus continues to spread around the world. The warning from the International Air Transport Association […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: NATO said Thursday it had confirmed three cases of the novel coronavirus linked to its military headquarters in Belgium, a civilian employee and two family members. The employee had recently traveled to Italy, the European country most affected by COVID-19, which has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide, the vast majority […]
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