Spain and Norway became the latest countries to impose stringent measures to com...
- Spain and Norway became the latest countries to impose stringent measures to combat the coronavirus, while the United States extended a travel ban.
In the United States, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a coronavirus aid package early on Saturday that would provide free testing and paid sick leave. President Donald Trump extended a travel ban to Britain and Ireland, a day after Washington suspended travel from certain European countries for 30 days beginning at midnight on Friday.- Some 153,025 people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and 5,788 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
- The British government will ban mass gatherings from next week, an escalation of its crisis plan that critics had said was too relaxed. - The Russian government said on Saturday it was closing the country’s land border with Poland and Norway to foreigners from midnight as a precautionary measure. - Honduras issued a country-wide red alert for two weeks starting on Saturday. The Central American country reported its third case earlier this week.
- Mainland China had 11 new confirmed cases on Friday, up from eight cases a day earlier, but only four of those - all in the virus epicenter of Hubei province - were locally transmitted, according to data released on Saturday.- The death toll from infections in Iran rose on Saturday to 611, state TV said, citing a health ministry official who put the total number of those diagnosed with the disease at 12,729.
- Rwanda has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, an Indian citizen who arrived in the East African nation from Mumbai on March 8, the Health Ministry said. - Switzerland will make 10 billion Swiss francs available in immediate aid to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. - France will help all companies in which the French state has a stake to weather the coronavirus crisis, its finance minister said on Friday, putting the growing cost of measures to soften the economic fallout at “dozens of billions”.
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