Pandemic

Turkish parliament extended an entry ban on foreign nationals into the country to help stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, the speaker's office announced on March 31.

"The ban on visitors has been extended to cover the period between April 1 and April 30," the office said in a statement.

The number of people infected with the new coronavirus is approaching 750,000, according to information from the Johns Hopkins Institute, which continuously monitors the pandemic. The number changing every minute. Yesterday, at 7.30pm it was 745 308.

A Turkish-origin baker and his family bake bread and take them to health personnel in the French city of Mulhouse to contribute to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The family appealed to Emile Muller Hospital in the city to help its personnel, and the request was accepted, the baker, Faruk Beyaz, said.

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to make sweeping changes to people's habits, including vacations, diets, technology, and investment, the head of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEIK) said on March 30.

Moldovan authorities are flirting with further reining in media freedoms as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens.

With the number of cases of coronavirus spreading in multiple countries around the globe, researchers at the Imperial College in London have made a sobering prediction that the death toll might soar into critically high numbers if social distancing and other mitigation measures fail.

The new world order has not come into being as one would have expected in the wake of the Soviet collapse 30 years ago. In fact, it is still in the making, with no signs of settling down. The current coronavirus pandemic, which is ravaging every corner of the world, could perhaps bring this distant prospect closer to us than imagined.

Patience is a crucial tool in the battle against the coronavirus health ministry spokesman Sotiris Tsiodras told a daily news conference today.

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"We will wait patiently, any prediction is uncertain," but he added that mathematical models currently show a slow spread.

Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis said  Monday that he will be donating 50 percent of his salary over the next two months to help the state deal with the growing cost of fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

"It is the least I can offer," Bakoyannis said in a post on social media, while calling for solidarity in fighting the crisis.
 

The coronavirus pandemic may decline in October this year, but there is no timeframe for the end of the COVID-19 spread so far. This is the opinion of the expert at the Shanghai Huashan Hospital Zhang Menghuang, quoted by the Chinese newspaper Shanghai Daily, TASS reported.