Middle East respiratory syndrome

The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutors' Office has announced that 65 inmates and arrestees in the province's Buca Prison have tested positive for COVID-19.

Another 9 people infected with the novel coronavirus have died, taking Romania's death toll to 507, informs the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) on Wednesday. The latest fatalities are six women and three men, aged between 32 and 83. AGERPRES (RO - author: Roberto Stan, editor: Florin Marin; EN - author: Simona Iacob, editor: Simona Klodnischi)

Residents of a lake island in Turkey live a mostly isolated live, but most importantly they are corona-free as the world grapples with the novel coronavirus. 

Mada Island is the biggest of 32 islands inside Beyşehir Lake in Isparta and Konya provinces in southwestern Turkey. It is 250 kilometers from Turkey's tourist hub of the province of Antalya on the Mediterranean coast.

Other 16 more infected with the novel coronavirus have died, the COVID-19 death toll thus reaching 498, according to a Strategic Communication Group (GCS) update on Tuesday. The latest COVID-19 pandemic victims in Romania are seven women and nine men aged between 52 and 90. AGERPRES (RO - author: Roberto Stan, editor: Claudia Stanescu; EN - editor: Adina Panaitescu)

Dozens of migrants in a hostel south of Greece tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, hours after the government said it would open some public services on April 27 as part of a gradual easing of the nation's coronavirus lockdown.

The death of a 101-year-old woman at Sotiria Hospital in Athens took Greece's coronavirus toll to 120 on Tuesday afternoon.
The woman, who had been suffering from underlying health issues when she was hospitalized with Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, had been admitted to hospital from a nursing home in Nea Makri east of the capital.

The number of the deceased people infected with COVID-19 in the United Kingdom has increased by 449 in the last 24 hours, according to global agencies.

So far, this is the smallest increase in death cases in the country since April 6. By comparison, 596 deaths were reported yesterday and 888 deaths were reported just a day earlier.

A 3-year-old toddler in Turkey has beaten the novel coronavirus.

He was discharged from hospital on April 21 in the southern province of Hatay after 15 days of treatment.

He was admitted to Hatay Mustafa Kemal Research and Training University Hospital with symptoms of high fever and cough.

Two more patients infected with Covid-19 died in Greece the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 119, according to press reports on Tuesday.

The first victim is a 75-year-old man with an underlying illness who died in Athens' Evangelismos Hospital early Monday morning.

The second is a 35-year-old man from the northern city of Thessaloniki who was otherwise healthy.

Another 4 persons infected with the novel coronavirus have died in Romania, the death toll reaching 482, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informs on Tuesday. The deceased were two women and two men with ages between 46 and 83. AGERPRES (RO - author: Roberto Stan, editor: Georgiana Tanasescu; EN - author: Razvan-Adrian Pandea, editor: Simona Iacob)