Influenza A virus subtype H1N1

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Friday for an "all-out effort" to end the "tsunami of hate and xenophobia" sparked by the novel coronavirus pandemic, without naming specific countries, BBC reports.

German Chancellor Merkel warned that while the coronavirus' "first phase is over…we still have a long fight ahead of us." Social distancing measures remain in place until June 5, but parts of the economy will reopen.

Global coronavirus-related fatalities exceeded the 260,000 mark on May 6, according to a running tally by the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.

The figures counted 260,487 deaths, while the numbers of cases and recoveries stand at 3,721.779 and 1,226.657, respectively.

The Defense Ministry on Wednesday dismissed reports pointing to a coronavirus outbreak in the armed forces that came in the wake of an announcement that 11 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed at a military hospital.

Global deaths from the coronavirus pandemic topped a quarter-million on May 4, mostly in the U.S. and Europe even as both regions slowly moved away from lockdown and world leaders raised billions towards a vaccine.    

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has risen to 145, reports said on Monday after an 88-year-old woman infected with the virus passed away. 

The 88-year-old had been receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of the capital's Attikon hospital. 

The COVID-19 pandemic will have a multiplier effect on Turkey's security challenges, as it will exacerbate the already existing problems in failed states like Iraq and Syria, according to an expert.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will attend a videoconference meeting of the EU this week about a fundraising campaign on supporting vaccine studies against the COVID-19 pandemic, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on May 2.

Two men and four women have died from COVID-19, bringing death toll to 185, with a mortality rate of 2.01 percent.
5.906 people were tested, and 196 samples turned back positive.
A total number of COVID-19 cases was 9.205, while 1.379 patients have recovered so far.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic in Serbia, a total of 91.551 people were tested.

President Donald Trump has speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible "mistake," and his intelligence agencies said they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab.