
[block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 43 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday.
Brazil topped four million Covid-19 cases as health ministry officials said infections were beginning to slow in the world’s second worst-hit country.
New Zealand recorded its first coronavirus death in more than three months on Friday when a man in his 50s succumbed to the virus.
Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus, has been hospitalised “as a precaution”, a statement from his entourage said Friday.
Patients involved in early tests of a Russian coronavirus vaccine developed antibodies with “no serious adverse events”, according to research published in The Lancet Friday, but experts said the trials were too small to prove safety and effectiveness.
[block type="summary”]The coronavirus pandemic has heaped pressure on the troubled World Trade Organization, a WTO leadership candidate said, warning the crisis could spell the end of rules-based international trade altogether.