Brasilia, April 13 (RHC)-- The Brazilian Ministry of Health reports that the country registered 68 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 1,124. Brazil has the highest number of deaths and cases in Latin America, with a mortality rate of 5.4 percent, according to the ministry.... More
San Francisco, April 13 (RHC)-- Twitter has not been functioning properly for thousands of users across Europe and Americas in what appears to be yet another major outage, with many reporting troubles with the platform’s website, Downdetector, which tracks service complaints via social media, reported that the outages have been experienced by users in Europe, as well as by those residing on the U.S. east coast.... More
Havana, April 12 (RHC)—Cuba conducted on the largest amount of PCRs tests for a day on Saturday, with over 1800, of which 49 tested positive. Cuba now reports a total of 669 confirmed cases and 92 recovered.... More
St. George's, April 12 (RHC)-- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves expressed his appreciation for the COVID-19 screening tests that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro sent to his country on Saturday.... More
Ramallah, April 12 (RHC)-- Palestinians believe Israel is taking advantage of the disease caused by the coronavirus pandemic to grab more of their lands and to escalate aggression against the Palestinian people.... More
Damascus, April 12 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump administration has deployed a military convoy in Syria to establish a new base in this Arab nation.... More
Rome, April 12 (RHC)-- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has announced an extension to current nationwide lockdown measures until early next month, as the country continues to struggle with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. ... More
Brasilia, April 12 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Saturday made a visit to Aguas Lindas de Goias, located in state of Goias. After visiting an emergency hospital, the former captain went out into the street -- without a face-mask -- to meet his fans who wanted to take photos with the right-wing president.... More
Havana, April 12 (RHC) On Saturday, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health confirmed 49 new cases to COVID-19 for a total of 669 in the country.... More
Havana, April 12 (RHC)-- One month since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), 108,867 people have died of complications caused by the pathogen and more than 1,777,666 people have been infected worldwide, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.... More
Vatican City, April 12 (RHC)-- Pope Francis has called for solidarity across the world to confront the "epochal challenge" posed by the coronavirus pandemic, in his traditional Easter address on Sunday.... More
Caracas, April 12 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has announced that the Bolivarian Government donated rapid and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests to several Caribbean countries to help in the fight against COVID-19.... More
Berlin, April 12 (RHC)-- Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has censured as ‘too slow’ the way the United States is handling the novel coronavirus pandemic, questioning the so-called America First model employed by the White House.... More
Paris, April 12 (RHC)-- A number of virus cases have been recorded among the crew of the country’s sole aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle. In a statement issued in Paris, the French Armed Forces Ministry said: “The results of 66 tests showed 50 cases of COVID-19 aboard the Charles de Gaulle. There is no deterioration of the sailors’ medical condition at this stage.” ... More
Paris, April 12 (RHC)-- A grim report from a nursing home in the French capital Paris reveals that several bodies of the elderly who have died of COVID-19 are still waiting to be buried, while the stench of decomposing corpses sweeps through the facility. ... More
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