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  • France coronavirus death toll rises to 9 and 154 new cases

    Date: 2020-03-06 16:04:36 GMT - France - World - SN:52 - ID:8342313

    PARIS, March 6 (MENA) - Two more people have died from coronavirus infection in France, taking the total to nine, while the number of confirmed infections rose by 154 to 577, rfi cited the French Health Ministry as saying on its website on ....

  • Trump signs $8.3 billion bill to fight coronavirus

    Date: 2020-03-06 15:37:55 GMT - USA - World - SN:51 - ID:8342388

    WASHINGTON, March 6 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an emergency spending bill that provides 8.3 billion dollars to fight the coronavirus outbreak, The Washington Post reported. The president signed the bill at the White ....

  • Second UK death linked to coronavirus as 163 test positive

    Date: 2020-03-06 15:17:21 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:49 - ID:8342275

    LONDON, March 6 (MENA) - An elderly male hospital patient is believed to have become the second UK-based victim to have died from the new coronavirus, The Telegraph reported. The unnamed patient in his 80s is thought to have succumbed to COVID-19 ....

  • Coronavirus cases hits 534 in Germany, 83 in Malaysia, 47 in Austria

    Date: 2020-03-06 14:49:57 GMT - World Capitals - World - SN:44 - ID:8342126

    WORLD CAPITALS, March 6 (MENA) – The Robert Koch Institute, a German public health institution, said Friday that 134 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed over the past 24 hours in Germany, DW reported. This brings the total number of cases to ....

  • Coronavirus cases more than double in Belgium, reaches 109

    Date: 2020-03-06 14:40:38 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:43 - ID:8342290

    BRUSSELS, March 6 (MENA) - Belgium’s health ministry said on Friday that cases of coronavirus in the country had more than doubled to 109, Al Arabiya news channel reported. The ministry said 441 tests had been conducted on Thursday and most of ....

  • Russia reports six new cases of coronavirus including five in Moscow: Interfax

    Date: 2020-03-06 14:36:00 GMT - Russia - World - SN:42 - ID:8342263

    MOSCOW, March 6 (MENA) - Russia has identified six new cases of coronavirus, including five in Moscow, the Interfax news agency cited Russia’s coronavirus crisis center as saying on Friday. That took the total number of confirmed cases to 13, a ....

  • Army helicopter carrying diplomats crashes in Myanmar: spokesman

    Date: 2020-03-06 14:14:49 GMT - Myanmar (Burma) - World - SN:39 - ID:8342240

    NAYPYITAW, March 6 (MENA) - A military helicopter carrying foreign diplomats crashed in eastern Myanmar on Friday afternoon, injuring two pilots, The New York Times quoted a military spokesman as saying. Several military attachés were on board ....

  • Number of coronavirus cases in Switzerland jumps to 118

    Date: 2020-03-06 13:59:21 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:37 - ID:8342122

    BERN, March 6 (MENA) - The number of coronavirus cases confirmed in Switzerland rose to 118 after two more cases were reported. The first death in Switzerland from Covid-19 has been confirmed in canton Vaud. A 74-year-old woman died on Thursday, ....

  • Injury toll from Afghanistan attack jumps to 55

    Date: 2020-03-06 13:58:38 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:36 - ID:8342196

    KABUL, March 6 (MENA) - The injury toll from the attack that targeted a ceremony marking the death anniversary of Abdul Ali Mazari, leader of Afghanistan's Hezb-e Wahdat party, climbed to 55. Gunmen killed at least 27 people in Afghanistan's ....

  • First coronavirus cases reported in Peru, Slovakia

    Date: 2020-03-06 13:56:43 GMT - Peru - World - SN:34 - ID:8342228

    LIMA, March 6 (MENA) - Coronavirus has now infected more than 100,000 people worldwide, as Slovakia, Slovenia and Peru today became the latest countries to confirm cases of the killer infection. The global toll surged to 100,094, with South ....

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