Italy rushes new doctors into service as deaths rise above 2,500

ROME: Italy will rush 10,000 student doctors into service, scrapping their final exams, in an effort to help the struggling health service cope with the coronavirus which claimed another 345 lives. The death toll rose to 2,503 over the past 24 hours, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the total number of confirmed cases increased […]

Over 20,000 test positive in Italy, 368 new deaths

ROME: The coronavirus epidemic claimed 368 lives in locked down Italy on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported based on new data released by the Civil Protection Department. Speaking at a nightly televised press conference, Civil Protection Department chief Angelo Borrelli confirmed that 20,603 people have tested positive for the coronavirus and 1,809 have died since […]

Iran’s cases soar to near 14,000, death toll reaches 724

CAIRO: The total number of Covid-19 cases in Iran on Sunday rose to 13,938, of whom 724 have died, as the epidemic continued to rage in the hardest-hit country in the Middle East reported Xinhua news agency. The number of Covid-19 cases on Sunday was up by 1,209 from a day ago, while the death […]