Germany is contending with a second wave of the coronavirus, the head of the country’s doctors’ union said in an interview published on Tuesday. The number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases has risen steadily in recent weeks. “We are already in a second, shallow upswing,” Susanne Johna, president of Marburger Bund, which represents doctors in Germany, told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper. She said there was a […]
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Harvey Milk’s name appears among engraved names during a World AIDS Day commemoration event in 2015 at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco, California. More than 700,000 people have died from AIDS in the United States. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In January, two weeks after Rick Solomon joined the YMCA near his home, he fell ill. The 65-year-old […]
France and Germany have agreed on establishing a joint European recovery fund amounting to €500 billion (US$543 billion) that will be given out as grants to the economic sectors and regions most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron have announced a joint initiative aimed at helping the European Union recover from the devastation the novel coronavirus pandemic has […]
In Dagestan, more than 40 medical workers have died from complications associated with Covid-19. That’s according to local Health Minister Jamaludin Hajibragimov, speaking on Instagram to blogger Ruslan Kurbanov. “According to colleagues, more than forty of them [have died],” he said, “this is really a tragedy.” Prior to the minister’s interview, the southern republic had 3,280 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 27 deaths. Later, in an […]
A major health agency fears a humanitarian crisis. Migrant workers are returning home from the hard-hit Dominican Republic. Medical equipment is in short supply. And social distancing is improbable. (Image credit: Pierre Michel Jean /AFP via Getty Images) Source link