A 102-year-old Italian woman recovers from coronavirus

A 102-year-old woman has recovered from coronavirus in the northern Italian city of Genoa after spending more than 20 days in hospital, doctors who treated her and her nephew told CNN. "We nicknamed her 'Highlander' - the immortal," said doctor Vera Sicbaldi who treated Italica Grondona in the San Martino hospital in Genoa.more

On Wednesday night a teenager died of COVID-19 at a Paris children's hospital. She was 16 and her name was Julie. This makes her France's youngest patient to die of a virus that usually affects vulnerable or elderly people.more

At night from 28 to 29 March we change the time from winter to summer - we will sleep for an hour less. All over Europe, on Sunday morning, we will move the clock hands from 2:00 to 3:00.more

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have left Canada to set up a new permanent base in California, according to reports.more

Global job losses from the coronavirus crisis could far exceed the 25-million estimated just days ago, UN officials said on Thursday, as US jobless claims surged.more

After the appearance of sanitary controls on the Polish-German border due to the coronavirus pandemic, the delivery time of postal items was initially extended. The situation has now normalized.more

Italy has recorded 969 new coronavirus deaths, its highest daily figure in the outbreak so far. more

The eastern federal states of Germany offered a €65 daily allowance for Poles who work on the German side. This is to convince them to continue their work, despite restrictions imposed by Poland related to the coronavirus epidemic.more

The number of coronavirus infections in Europe is still not falling, the pace of the epidemic is still high. According to the latest WHO data, more infections will be recorded in Italy on Friday than in China. The United States is strengthening first in the world.more

70% population in Germany will become infected, and for more than 80 percent of patients will lack places in intensive care units - predicts the "worst-case scenario" of the coronavirus epidemic in a report prepared by experts commissioned by the German Ministry of the Interior.more

A supermarket has complained of being forced to throw away nearly £30,000 of food after a woman purposefully coughed on their produce, in what it dubbed a "twisted" coronavirus prank.more

Hopes that Italy's coronavirus epidemic might be in retreat suffered a setback on Thursday when data showed that both the number of new cases and deaths had ticked higher, underscoring how hard it is to halt the disease.more

"It's apocalyptic," a doctor at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens told the New York Times after the facility recorded 13 coronavirus-related deaths Tuesday. By Thursday, the city had reported more than 37,258 confirmed COVID cases and 385 deaths.more

The European Commission wants to get data from mobile phones of EU citizens about their movement, to create patterns of coronavirus spread and to assess how national anti-epidemic measures work.more

Only 140 Portuguese citizens decided to leave Poland in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Yesterday they returned from Warsaw to Lisbon on a special plane chartered by the Portuguese government - the daily Observador reported. more

Over the past 24 hours, more than 1,000 new cases of coronavirus infection have been reported in the Netherlands, the National Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM) said today. This is the highest daily increase in incidence in this country. 78 more people died.more

Spanish law enforcement agencies have applied over 124,000 penalties, including fines, against citizens for violating the provisions of the coronavirus epidemic in force since mid-March. Over 1,000 people have been seized or arrested until yesterday.more

A 101-year-old resident of Rimini, in the north of Italy, was cured of the coronavirus and returned home - the Vice Mayor of Gloria Lisi announced on Thursday. He is the oldest patient in Italy who defeated Covid-19 disease.more

Bosch says it has developed a rapid test that can detect the coronavirus in just two and a half hours. It's the latest example of a company joining the fight against COVID-19.more

Europe is still the epicenter of the pandemic, but today the US may have the most infections in the world. According to WHO data, the United States has the highest growth rate of new cases - higher than in Italy and Spain.more

The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Germany has risen to 36,508 and 198 people have died of the disease, statistics from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases showed on Thursday.more

Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, Polish women resign from taking care of German seniors. Therefore, such services are in danger of falling, according to Tagesschau's public information service.more

Germany has banned entry for foreign seasonal workers due to a coronavirus pandemic. The new restrictions do not apply to Polish and Czech citizens - the Interior Ministry in Berlin said.more

Head of the Federal Reserve Louis James Bullard estimated today that 46 million people in the US may be out of work due to a pandemic. He criticized President Donald Trump for appeals for resuming business activity and promises to regain full economic dynamism before Easter.more

Beer sales have skyrocketed 78% as people across Spain settle into week two of a coronavirus lockdown.more

A team led by neuropathologist Adriano Aguzzi from the University Hospital of Zurich has developed a new type of test for people who have had a Covid-19 infection without serious symptoms. And maybe they didn't even realize they were sick.more

"We are at the beginning of a coronavirus epidemic," said Lothar Wieler, head of the Robert Koch (RKI) in Berlin, a German state institution dealing with virological threats.more

President Donald Trump said on Fox News Channel yesterday that coronavirus pandemic restrictions would kill more people than disease, "if we let them continue."more

The French government is calling on people who are "not working at this time" to "go into the fields" and help farmers and producers during the Covid-19 crisis.more

Tonight, all unnecessary businesses in Ontario and Quebec had to suspend operations due to a state of emergency imposed by the governments of these Canadian provinces. But alcohol stores were considered an "essential".more

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it has cooperated with the popular WhatsApp messenger, thanks to which its users will receive access to the latest information and advice on Covid-19. The latest reports on the spread of the virus are to be published there.more

For the third year in a row, Finland has been named the world's happiest country. The annual United Nations World Happiness Report released its 2020 edition, revealing that the Nordic country is number one once again.more

The Pentagon is assuming the coronavirus epidemic in the United States will last at least several months, and that some countries are at risk of "political chaos," its top officials said Tuesday.more

Scientists in Singapore say they have developed a way to track genetic changes that speed testing of vaccines against a coronavirus that has killed more than 16,000 people worldwide.more

The Portuguese government sent soldiers to the streets in connection with the coronavirus epidemic. They will help homeless people first.more

The coronavirus death toll in Spain has jumped by 514 in a single day, as the situation in the country quickly worsens.more

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced on Monday evening stricter confinement rules that will go into effect on Tuesday to curb the spread of coronavirus.more

All EU countries and the Schengen area except Ireland closed their external borders for travel, which are not necessary - the European Commission announced today. 12 EU countries have restored temporary border controls within Schengen.more

Spanish soldiers helping to fight the coronavirus pandemic have found elderly patients in retirement homes abandoned and, in some cases, dead in their beds, the defence ministry has said.more