Peru

Finance Minister Assen Vassilev Monday said that "today's speculation by a political party about a forthcoming 50 per cent rise in corporate tax is sheer nonsense and deliberate lying amid the election campaign".

Ljubljana – Congratulations to Slovenia are pouring in on Friday as the country is marking Statehood Day and the 30th anniversary of its independence. Congratulations to President Borut Pahor were sent today by the leaders of Italy, Austria, Croatia Germany, the Czech Republic, Russia, Japan, Belgium and Switzerland, the president’s office said.

Romania's National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) updated on Friday its list of countries or areas with high COVID-19 epidemiological risk. "The classification of the countries/areas by the cumulative rate of COVID-19 cases in order to sort the persons arriving in Romania accordingly and subject them to quarantine is hereby approved," reads CNSU Decision 39.

Peru on May 31 announced a sharp increase in its COVID-19 death toll, saying there have been more than 180,000 fatalities since the pandemic hit the country early last year.

The announcement was made in the presidential palace during the presentation of a report by a working group commissioned to analyze and update the death toll.

Brazil reported a 24-hour tally of COVID-19 deaths exceeding 4,000 for the first time on April 6, becoming the third nation to go above that daily threshold.

Many governors, mayors and judges are reopening parts of the economy despite lingering chaos in overcrowded hospitals and a collapsed health system in several parts of the country.

Doctor who led the clinical trial of the Chinese vaccine "Sinopharm" spoke about the former president before the Peruvian parliament, saying that Vizcarra himself asked to be vaccinated, even though the vaccine was still in the trial phase.

The incident happened in Peru

On Friday, President Klaus Iohannis signed accreditation decrees for several Romanian ambassadors, including Cristian Istrate to Russia, Bogdan Manoiu to Canada and Daniela-Laura Popescu to the UK.

"They would probably answer to that spooky forecaster that Slovenia is a disciplined nation that will know how to organize adequate anti-epidemic measures and that it is completely impossible for such evil to befall the country," the text of Jutarnji list points out.

Bulgarian cardiologist Prof. Ivo Petrov is on the opinion that thanks to vaccines, billions of people will be saved.

  He was adamant that the benefits of vaccines are by far more important the risks. According to the professor, doctors should be vaccinated because that would be responsible behavior.