Further aids to elderly as virus toll rises in Turkey
At the weekend, Turkey imposed a partial curfew on citizens aged over 65 or with chronic diseases and created groups to meet their needs...
Facebook offer grants of $100 mn to help virus-hit news media
Out of the need for reliable information about the crisis, Facebook said Monday it was donating $100 million to support news organizations globally hurting...
Turkey earthquake death toll reaches 31
Friday’s main quake hit at 8:55 p.m. local time (1755 GMT).
Turkish rescue teams continued to pull survivors from collapsed buildings Sunday.
More than a day...
Warnings of a new spike in infections in Iran
The COVID-19 respiratory disease has killed 6,640 people in Iran since the first two fatalities were reported in the city of Qom on February...
Toilet paper panic-buying in Germany amid Virus outbreak
The Coronavirus pandemic has sent panicked shoppers across Europe into a toilet-paper buying frenzy.
Generally speaking, people tend to wildly overestimate their TP needs, as...
Arab and Jewish doctors together on frontline of virus fight
Jewish and Arab doctors have worked side by side on the frontlines of the novel Coronavirus fight.
The Arab minority in Jerusalem make up around...
Turkey’s Coronavirus death toll rises to 2,805
Turkey's confirmed cases of COVID-19 increased by 2,357 in the past 24 hours, and 99 more people have died, taking the death toll to...
Latest global developments – Coronavirus
There have been 2,363,210 reported COVID-19 infections around the world, from which 164,016 people have died, based on official sources.
The United States has the...
Coronavirus Lockdown extended to May 14 – Algeria
The prime minister's office said on Monday that Algeria will extend movement restrictions for the second time by 15 days until May 14 to...
Life is carrying on in Sweden amid Virus
On Monday, Sweden's former state epidemiologist and current advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO), Johan Giesecke, encouraged Swedes to go out and enjoy...
