[block type="summary”]The Ministry of Health’s latest update brought Luxembourg’s total to 3,784 confirmed infections and 90 deaths.
Europe faces an economic catastrophe under the coronavirus unprecedented in the modern era, financial leaders warned Thursday, despite modest signs that the world is getting a handle on the epidemic as it plots a course out of lockdown.
Younger children will start heading back to class across France next month after eight weeks at home in coronavirus lockdown. But there will be no ball games or contact play under strict new guidelines to limit infections.
France’s sports ministry said Thursday that joggers and cyclists will have to stay at least 10 metres (33 feet) from one another once stay-at-home orders are lifted on May 11.
Coronavirus cases in Russiasurged past 100,000 on Thursday as the country recorded its largest daily increase, after officials warned infections had not yet peaked and extended lockdown measures.
With the coronavirus pandemic set to inflict an “unprecedented” peacetime slump on the eurozone economy, European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde said Thursday the institution’s trillion-euro response could be expanded and prolonged into 2021.
Romanian workers are in high demand as farms and home care firms throughout western Europe clamour for help from the east, even with borders closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
There will be 11,000 fewer deaths in European countries under coronavirus lockdown due to a sharp drop in fossil fuel pollution during April, according to research released Thursday.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte Thursday criticised regional chiefs for defying the government and lifting lockdown measures early, saying it risked undoing efforts to prevent a second coronavirus wave.
American Airlines reported a $2.2 billion loss in the first quarter Thursday following the steep decline in business due to the coronavirus outbreak.
South Korea Thursday reported no new locally transmitted coronavirus cases for the first time since the disease was detected in the country more than two months ago.
