The offer by the United States to help Iran fight the coronavirus pandemic is strange, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech on Sunday, describing U.S. leaders as “charlatans”. Despite heightened tensions between the longtime foes, Washington has offered humanitarian assistance to Iran while it struggles ... Read More »
Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus at the request of the worst-affected region Lombardy. The Caribbean island has sent its “armies of white robes” to disaster sites around ... Read More »
The number of deaths from coronavirus in Spain has jumped to 1,326, up from 1,002 in the country’s biggest one-day rise so far. According to data from the Health Ministry, the number of registered cases in the country rose to 24,926 on Saturday, from the figure of 19,980 announced on ... Read More »
Suspected short-range missile launches come as Pyongyang announces legislature to meet in April amid coronavirus pandemic North Korea fired two projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s military reported. The launch on Saturday follows two ... Read More »
On Saturday morning, March 21st, the Ministry of Public Health released its daily coronavirus (COVID-19) report, announcing the total of positive cases to be 187 in Lebanon. Several hours later, the ministry issued a follow-up report, adding 19 new cases to the total. As the new report explained, a new ... Read More »
Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Sunday called on the Army Command and the rest of security forces to take strict measures to ensure citizens are staying in their homes unless it is extremely necessary, following major breaches of the government’s “general mobilization” order over the past days. “The plans include ... Read More »
“On Mother’s Day, I greet all the mothers of Lebanon. They are life, the first nurses, the source of strength and doctors for the life of any child,” Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd said on her Twitter account. She added: “Because health is not a joke, stay at home for ... Read More »
The Ministry of Public Health announced, in a statement on Saturday, that “twenty-four new laboratory-confirmed cases infected with the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been registered, including the cases diagnosed at the Rafic Hariri Governmental Hospital, and those reported from other university hospitals accredited by the Ministry.” The Health Ministry also ... Read More »
The World Health Organization is working with scientists across the globe on at least 20 different coronavirus vaccines with some already in clinical trials in record time — just 60 days after sequencing the gene. “The acceleration of this process is really truly dramatic in terms of what we’re able to ... Read More »
Health Minister Hamad Hasan on Friday said after a joint meeting with the parliamentary health committee that Lebanon is preparing for stage four in its fight against coronavirus after registering six cases of unknown origin, stressing the need for community cooperation to stop its spread. “We truly wish not to ... Read More »
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