Based on local media reports released Tuesday, Belgian officials are considering hiring 2,000 inspectors to find out which patients have interacted with COVID-19 patients.more
The oil price will stay low for some time as supply exceeds demand and the current situation on global oil markets is reminiscent of the 1980s oil glut, former BP boss Lord John Browne said on Tuesday.more
The latest figures released on Tuesday show a total of 17,337 people have died in hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, with the death tally up 823 in the past day.more
Barcelona will sell the title rights to its storied stadium for one year in an effort to raise money for the fight against the coronavirus. The Spanish club's executive board said Tuesday it will donate the entire fee raised by selling the title rights to the Camp Nou to fighting the global pandemic.more
'To achieve a sufficient level of collective immunity to avoid a second wave you need 70 percent of the population to be immune,' said Head of the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit at the Pasteur Institute.more
Are you afraid that you won't see your loved ones for a long time through a pandemic? Or are you afraid of the financial crisis and market collapse? - among others such questions in an anonymous survey by experts from The Polish University Abroad in London (PUNO.more
Denmark's govt says it will uphold ban on public gathering of more than 500 people until Sept 1, contradicting media reports it will allow large public gatherings from May 10.more
Sir David Attenborough, Danny Dyer and Jodie Whittaker are among the celebrity supply teachers who will be helping the BBC educate the nation's schoolchildren during the coronavirus lockdown.more
Dentists in England are facing "critical shortages" in personal protective equipment (PPE), forcing patients with urgent problems to "take matters into their own hands", says an organisation representing UK dentists.more
In France, besides the outbreak of the coronavirus, another scourge is raging - reporting. Police lines are overloaded with calls from people who provide information about their neighbors not complying with sanitary restrictions - according to French media.more
Germany's Oktoberfest, the world's largest folk festival, where revellers from all over the world gather to swig large quantities of beer, has been cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis, the southern state of Bavaria said on Tuesday.more
A member of staff at Northampton General Hospital (NGH) 'will be missed by everyone who knew or worked with her' having died after testing positive for coronavirus. Joanna Klenczon, 34, worked at the hospital for 10 years and was a domestic supervisor at the time of her death on April 9.more
French restaurants are at risk of death and should be opened as soon as possible - 17 well-known chefs associated in the College Culinaire de France association wrote to President Emmanuel Macron.more
The parishes make calculations and inform how many people can be in particular churches and chapels during masses and services. This is connected with new regulations stating that one person per 15 sq m may stay in places of religious worship - informed Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik.more
The crisis associated with the coronavirus pandemic is huge, but I think the European project is very strong. I am convinced that if we make the right choices, we will come out of this crisis stronger - said the President of the European Council Charles Michel in an interview with Rzeczpospolita.more
