Italy has started using a corona warning app. Innovation Minister Paola Pisano confirmed on Monday that the app was launched in four regions on a trial basis. According to the Italian news agency ANSA, about two million Italians have already downloaded the app. Although the app can be downloaded […]
Two agents in Buffalo, New York, have been suspended after a video surfaced on social media showing them knocking over an elderly protesting man during a demonstration against police brutality and racism. The 75-year-old protester was injured and taken to a hospital, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said Thursday (local […]
In Hong Kong, protesters clashed hard with riot police on Thursday. In the Mong Kok district, people took to the streets again to demonstrate against their own government. The widespread student protests on Chinese Tiananmen Square, precisely 31 years ago, were also discussed. The demonstration was banned because of […]
In Chile, more than 100,000 people are now infected with the coronavirus. More than 1,100 people have died to date after being infected with the virus in the South American country. This is evident from figures from the American Johns Hopkins University. There have recently been demonstrations against government […]
The authorities in Singapore are trying to create new housing for about 60,000 foreign workers by the end of the year. They want to reduce the crowds in residential complexes to combat the spread of the coronavirus. In the affluent city-state with 5.7 million inhabitants, more than 35,000 people […]
In Switzerland, a baby died for the first time from the effects of the coronavirus. According to the authorities, it is a baby who was infected abroad, local media reports. In the Alpine country, at least two corona patients, including the baby, died in the past 24 hours. The […]
More and more Africans are infected with the coronavirus by someone from their own environment who has not travelled and whose virus has not been diagnosed. The head of the health organization Africa CDC warns against this. Especially in Ethiopia, more and more people are infected by someone from […]
A former Russian governor is taking President Vladimir Putin to the Supreme Court in protest of his dismissal. The court informed Putin about this on Wednesday, it reports to the Russian news agency Interfax. Mikhail Ignatev was governor of Chuvashia region, some 700 kilometres east of Moscow, from 2010 […]
In Russia, 8915 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in the past 24 hours. That is slightly less than the 8,946 new cases reported on Monday. The total number of Russians found to have contracted the lung virus thus amounts to 362,342. In the last 24 hours, the number […]
China has warned the United States not to interfere with the situation in Hong Kong. That warning follows a US threat of sanctions if Beijing pushes through the so-called security law in Hong Kong. According to critics, that security law is intended to put an end to the autonomous […]
