Iraq registered, on Monday, 2553 new cases and of Covid-19, as well as about 1927 recoveries and 96 fatalities in the past 24 hours. The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said in a statement that, 17141 tests were performed today, The newly recovery cases were distributed as follows: Baghdad …
Read More »China reports its highest number of local Covid-19 infections since March
China recorded 57 local Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the highest number the country has seen since it brought the coronavirus largely under control in March, according to figures released by the National Health Commission on Monday. Among the locally transmitted cases, 41 were found in the far western region of …
Read More »Ardern poll boost ahead of New Zealand’s September election
The party of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has extended its lead in New Zealand’s latest opinion poll, putting the charismatic 40-year-old leader on track for a comfortable victory in the elections in September. A Newshub-Reid Research Poll released late on Sunday showed the popularity of Ardern’s Labour Party rose to …
Read More »Spain’s Catalonia to take stricter measures if coronavirus situation does not improve
Spain’s Catalonia may take stricter measures to limit coronavirus contagion if situation does not improve in the next 10 days, regional leader Quim Torra said on Monday. Torra warned that in many parts of Catalonia the data was similar to the situation before Spain declared a national lockdown in March. …
Read More »Morocco shuts down major cities after spike in coronavirus cases
Morocco will stop people entering and leaving some of its biggest cities from midnight to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases, the interior and health Ministries said on Sunday. The cities to be locked down include the economic powerhouse of Casablanca as well as Tangier, Marrakech, Fez, and Meknes. The …
Read More »Trump-era record | Eight in 10 Americans think country is headed in wrong direction
More Americans are pessimistic about the direction of their country than at any point during Donald Trump’s presidency, as the nation continues to struggle with the coronavirus, protests against police brutality that have at times turned violent, and a venomous presidential election that has exposed deep political divides. Roughly eight …
Read More »Latin America leads world in coronavirus cases
Coronavirus cases in Latin America for the first time have surpassed the combined infections in the United States and Canada, a Reuters tally showed on Sunday, amid a surge of infections in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, and Argentina. The quickly growing number of cases makes Latin America the region most …
Read More »Iraq declares holiday lockdown, reports over 2,400 more coronavirus cases
The Iraqi government on Sunday announced a total lockdown during the Eid al-Adha holidays, as the Ministry of Health and Environment reported 2,459 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours. COVID-19 Figures The health ministry said in its daily statement that health workers had conducted 17,511 tests over the …
Read More »Moderna gets further $472 million U.S. award for coronavirus vaccine development
Moderna Inc said on Sunday it has received an additional $472 million from the U.S. government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to support the development of its novel coronavirus vaccine. The U.S.-based drugmaker said the additional funding will support its late-stage clinical development including the expanded Phase 3 …
Read More »Spain is safe, minister insists as British quarantine move sows dismay
Spain is safe for tourists and Spaniards, the government insisted on Sunday after Britain abruptly imposed a two-week coronavirus quarantine on travelers returning from there, a decision that filled holidaymakers with dismay. Last year, Britons made up over a fifth of foreign visitors to Spain, which relies heavily on tourism …
Read More »Coronavirus Latest: South Africa reports over 12,000 new cases
South Africa has announced more than 12,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases as the total in one of the world’s worst affected countries reaches 434,200 with 6,655 deaths. South Africa makes up well over half the confirmed cases on the African continent, where experts say the virus could smoulder in areas …
Read More »Hurricane Hanna lashes south Texas coast, already beset by COVID
Hurricane Hanna pummeled the south Texas coast on Saturday night with howling winds and a surging sea that threatened a broad area already contending with an intense spike in coronavirus deaths. Hanna is the first hurricane for the 2020 Atlantic storm season, which is expected to be unlike any other …
Read More »Covid-19: about 2000 recoveries and 3000 news cases in Iraq today
Iraq registered, on Saturday, about 3000 new cases and of Covid-19, as well as about 2000 recoveries in the past 24 hours. The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said in a statement that, 15788 tests were performed today, so the total number of tests is 10377, in which the …
Read More »Record numbers of coronavirus cases in every global region: Reuters tally
Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the world. The rate of cases has been increasing not …
Read More »Ministry Of Health: 1863 Cases Of Recovery From Coronavirus Registered Today In Iraq
he Ministry of Health and Environment announced the registration of (1863) cases of recovery from the Coronavirus. A statement of the ministry, which AlghdeerTV received a copy of it, said that the Ministry of Health and Environment recorded this day (1863) cases of recovery in Iraq distributed as follows: Baghdad …
Read More »Opinion | The integrity of science is vital — politics cannot interfere
On April 17, President Trump was asked by a misinformed reporter why the U.S. supported the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, which had been accused, without evidence, of engineering and possibly releasing COVID-19. The president responded that he was aware of it and would “end that grant very quickly,” …
Read More »Bulgarian PM and EU summit delegates test negative for coronavirus
Second coronavirus tests of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his political team who attended an EU summit this week came out negative, the government said on Friday, after earlier tests showed positive for one member of the delegation. Borissov went into quarantine after the head of his political office, …
Read More »Jerusalem protest against Netanyahu results in dozens of arrests
Dozens of protesters opposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were arrested in Israel late Thursday and early Friday as they clashed with police. Protesters have been holding demonstrations for weeks, calling for Netanyahu to resign over corruption charges and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. At least 55 people were arrested …
Read More »US coronavirus cases pass 4 million in rapid acceleration – latest updates
Coronavirus has now infected some 15.4 million people and has killed more than 632,000. Here are the latest updates for July 23: Thursday, July 23, 2020 US cases took 16 days to go from 3 to 4 million The total number of coronavirus cases reported in the United States …
Read More »Iraq registered, on Wednesday, 80 fatalities in the past 24 hours.
The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said in a statement that, 16947 tests were performed today, The newly2258 recovery cases were distributed as follows: Baghdad / Al-Rusafa 305, Baghdad / Al-Karkh 318, Medical City 128, Najaf 119, Al-Sulaymaniyah 39, Erbil 96, Duhok 8, Karbala 90, Kirkuk 126, Diyala 75, …
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