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April 10, 2020 - 22:55 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - More than 100,000 people have died from the novel coronavirus globally, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking figures from the World Health Organization and additional sources. The number of confirmed cases went beyond 1.65 million worldwide on Friday, April 10, as ...

April 10, 2020 - 15:21 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Georgia confirmed 16 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, April 10, bringing the total number of infections to 230. Health authorities said 54 patients have recovered, three have died in the country so far. A total of 4,829 individuals are under quarantine, while 410 others ...

April 10, 2020 - 11:28 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates has said that the coronavirus pandemic is the "biggest event that people will experience in their entire lives," and warned that a viral outbreak will likely happen "every 20 years or so," Business Insi...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved out of intensive care but remains in hospital, BBC News reports, citing Downing Street. Mr Johnson has been receiving treatment for coronavirus at St Thomas' Hospital in London since Sunday. No 10 said he "has been moved this evening from intensive care back to the ward, where he...

April 9, 2020 - 18:26 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - There are now more than 1.5 million cases of the novel coronavirus worldwide, with the tally climbing over 1,502,618 on Thursday, April 9, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking figures from the World Health Organization and additional sources. The number of new infec...

April 9, 2020 - 15:43 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Georgia confirmed six new cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, April 9, bringing the total number of infections to 214. Health authorities said 50 patients have recovered, three have died in the country so far. A total of 4,722 individuals are under quarantine, while 408 others...

April 9, 2020 - 14:47 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Russia is ready to negotiate extensive military-technical cooperation, including aircraft supplies, with Azerbaijan, according to Maria Vorobyova, a representative of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS). “Azerbaijan is a longtime partner of Russia in the fiel...

April 9, 2020 - 13:02 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Russia confirmed 1,459 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, April 9, bringing the country’s official number of cases up to 10,131 and marking a new record one-day increase in infections, The Moscow Times reports. Seventy-six people have died from the virus, 13 of whom have died in t...

April 9, 2020 - 11:35 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The United States is planning to block Iran’s request for a $5 billion emergency International Monetary Fund loan to fight coronavirus, Bloomberg reports. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has billions of dollars stashed away that could be tapped to fight the virus, accordin...

Despite “positive signs” from some countries, it is too early to scale back measures aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus, the World Health Organisation’s European office said on Wednesday, April 8. “Now is not the time to relax measures,” WHO regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, told a news conference. “It i...