UK has fixed swab shortage problem for coronavirus testing, minister says
Britain has fixed the problem it had with a shortage of swabs used in the testing of coronavirus and is resolving an issue in supply of reagents needed in the process, health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday.
French nursing home deaths soar since coronavirus outbreak
Five hundred and seventy people have died in nursing homes in France’s eastern region during the coronavirus outbreak, suggesting the national death toll linked to the illness could be far higher than thought.
Britain to target 100,000 daily coronavirus tests by month-end
Britain is aiming for 100,000 daily coronavirus tests by the end of April, health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday, an increase of around tenfold from current levels.
Germans snitch on neighbours flouting virus rules, in echo of the Stasi past
Law-abiding Germans are zealously helping police crack down on people flouting new social distancing rules aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus by reporting on strangers, neighbours and friends.
Elderly to be evacuated en masse from ultra-Orthodox Israeli town hit by coronavirus
The Israeli military will evacuate elderly residents en masse from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town with a disproportionately large outbreak of coronavirus, the government said on Thursday.
Mistrustful of state, Brazil slum hires own doctors to fight virus
Emerson Barata draws a circular map of Sao Paulo’s largest slum, Paraisopolis, and begins to mark confirmed coronavirus cases in blue ink. At the center of the favela of around 120,000 people, which crowds between luxury apartment blocks and high-walle…
Global coronavirus deaths top 50,000 – Johns Hopkins tally
Global coronavirus deaths topped 50,200 on Thursday as the pandemic ravages the United States and Europe, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Dutch returning from U.S. should self-quarantine: prime minister
Dutch citizens returning from the United States by plane should self-quarantine for a period of 14 days, the Netherlands’ prime minister said on Thursday, as part of measures intended to slow the spread of coronavirus.
South Korea to allow absentee voting by coronavirus patients in parliament elections
South Korea will allow coronavirus patients to vote by mail or as absentees in parliamentary elections this month, as a two-week campaign kicked off on Thursday in a country grappling with a steady rise in new infections.
Doctor under investigation for coronavirus outbreak in Russia’s remote north
Russia said on Thursday it was investigating a coronavirus outbreak in a remote northern region to check if more than 50 people in a hospital had been infected by a doctor.
