[block type="summary”]The Ministry of Health’s latest figures show that another 9 people tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 3,980. The death toll remains at 109.
Global infections from the novel coronavirus passed five million on Thursday as the pandemic played out unevenly across the planet, with China eager to declare a victory, Europe tentatively emerging from its shell and deaths still rising in hotspots in Latin America.
Job losses in the United States are slowing but totalled an unheard-of 38.6 million since the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns began, while officials debate what additional steps will be needed to rescue the beleaguered economy.
A drink made from a bright-green fern-like plant is being promoted in African countries as the go-to cure for COVID-19.
Rival Cypriot leaders agreed Thursday to gradually reopen crossing points along the island’s UN-patrolled ceasefire line from June 8 after successfully containing coronavirus outbreaks on both sides, officials said.
Top Democrats on Thursday urged President Donald Trump to order flags flown at half staff when the US coronavirus death toll reaches 100,000, saying the salute would reflect a “national expression of grief.”
Museums and zoos began reopening in Denmark on Thursday, as the country decided to accelerate its exit from lockdown and health officials said the spread of the new coronavirus was slowing.
Leaders of China, France, Germany, and the World Health Organization want any coronavirus vaccine to be deemed a “global public good,” but President Donald Trump has another idea: vaccinate America first.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro neatly sums up how thoroughly politics has hijacked the debate over using malaria drugs against the new coronavirus: “Right-wingers take chloroquine.”
Peru has become the second Latin American country after Brazil to reach 100,000 coronavirus cases, according to health ministry figures out Wednesday.
