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Death at home: the unseen toll of Italy’s coronavirus crisis
By Emilio Parodi and Silvia Aloisi MILAN (Reuters) - It took Silvia Bertuletti 11 days of frantic phone calls to persuade a doctor to visit her 78-year-old father Alessandro, who was gripped by fever ...
Apr 05, 2020
Greece quarantines second camp after coronavirus case confirmed
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has quarantined a second migrant facility this week after a 53-year-old man tested positive for coronavirus, the migration ministry said on Sunday. Tha Afghan man, who was fo...
Apr 05, 2020
Lisbon court seizes NOS shares held by Angola’s dos Santos
LISBON (Reuters) - Sonaecom, sub-holding of Portugal's Sonae, said on Saturday evening a Lisbon court seized shares in telecommunications firm NOS of a holding company it co-owned with former first-da...
Apr 04, 2020
Ecuador stores coronavirus victims in giant fridges as morgues fill up
By Vicente Gaibor del Pino and Yury Garcia GUAYAQUIL (Reuters) - Ecuador's government has begun storing the bodies of victims of the coronavirus in giant refrigerated containers as hundreds of deaths ...
Apr 04, 2020
Brazil’s lawmakers pass ‘war budget’ as coronavirus cases surpass 10,000
By Gabriela Mello SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of Congress approved a constitutional amendment for a "war budget" to separate coronavirus-related spending from the government's main budg...
Apr 04, 2020
Portugal’s coronavirus cases grow, half a million workers at risk of lay off
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - Confirmed coronavirus cases in Portugal pushed past the 10,000 mark on Saturday, while government data showed more than half a million Portuguese workers were at ...
Apr 04, 2020
5G coronavirus conspiracy theory is dangerous fake nonsense, UK says
By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - A conspiracy theory that links 5G mobile telecommunications masts to the spread of the novel coronavirus is dangerous fake news and completely f...
Apr 04, 2020
Turkey’s coronavirus death toll rises above 500: minister
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Confirmed coronavirus cases in Turkey rose by more than 3,000 to 23,934 on Saturday with deaths related to COVID-19 rising by 76 to 501 people, Heath Minister Fahrettin Koca said ...
Apr 04, 2020
Daily coronavirus death toll in France slows to 441
PARIS (Reuters) - The number of people who died from coronavirus infections in France over the past 24 hours slowed to 441 from a high of 588 the previous day, France's health ministry director told a...
Apr 04, 2020
Ukrainian doctors fly to Italy to help combat coronavirus
By Sergiy Karazy KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine, which expects a sharp rise of coronavirus cases in the coming weeks, sent doctors to disease-hit Italy on Saturday to assist their Italian colleagues and to ...
Apr 04, 2020
