The conversion of the ExCel centre into a field hospital with 4,000 beds is perhaps the most ambitious medical project Britain has seen since the end of the second world war.
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Germany offered help to its neighbors - France and Italy - to help them fight the coronavirus. The German army brought the first patients to the country today, who will be treated in hospitals in Cologne.more
Eddie Hearn, promoter of British boxing world champion Anthony Joshua, has offered free tickets for healthcare professionals. Among other things, this is the way he wants to thank them for their daily fight against coronavirus.more
While around the world, thousands of people die every day from COVID-19 disease, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko organized and played in an amateur ice hockey tournament in Minsk. In this way he wanted to show that coronavirus is not a threat.more
Laboratory tests confirmed 79 new cases of coronavirus infection, in total the infection was detected in 1717 people - the Polish Ministry of Health informed this morning. 19th person died due to coronavirus - he is a 75-year-old patient in the hospital in Bytom.more
From Friday, people who live in Poland and who regularly commute to Germany can count on several dozen euros of daily allowance for renting a temporary accommodation. The Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Berlin Andrzej Przyłębski estimates that such a solution proves "a proper assessment of a difficult situation".more
The number of people to have died with the coronavirus in the UK has reached 1,019. The latest government figures on Saturday showed there were another 260 deaths in the UK in a day, up from 759 on Friday.more
In the model adopted by epidemiologists, 102,000 Swedes can be infected with coronavirus, i.e. 1 percent population. 17,000 will need hospital care people, and 5,000 intensive care - writes today the largest Swedish daily "Dagens Nyheter".more
Barcelona has delivered 30,000 masks to the Catalonia government to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, the club said Saturday. The masks were made in China and donated by insurance company Taiping, a regional partner of the club.more
The Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack, is self-isolating after he developed coronavirus symptoms. Mr Jack is said to be experiencing "mild" symptoms, including a cough and a temperature, but had not been tested for Covid-19.more
If the restrictions imposed on coronavirus are maintained and observed, the number of deaths in Great Britain will therefore be around 5,700, which is much less than originally anticipated - experts say, as reported today in The Times.more
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
Bernie Ecclestone says that F1 should give up on the idea of holding any Grand Prix races in 2020, after the postponement or cancellation of the first eight races of the season due to the spread of coronavirus. Ecclestone was in charge of running the sport for nearly 40 years, until Liberty Media bought the commercial rights at the end of 2016 and replaced him as CEO with Chase Carey.more
The risk rating agency Fitch Ratings lowered the UK's financial strength rating to AA- on Friday, with a negative outlook, due to the "significant weakening" of its public finances caused by the impact of the new coronavirus epidemic.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
Another two temporary hospitals where coronavirus-infected patients will be admitted will be built in the UK by mid-April, 'said Simon Stevens, head of the NHS English Department, public British health service yesterday.more
The new measures were announced by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar last night, in addition to the strict restrictions already in place. The only exceptions are for travelling to essential work, to shop for food or household goods, for healthcare appointments and for vital family reasons.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
A test to see whether someone has already had coronavirus is being developed but will not be available within days, the UK government's chief medical adviser says.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
