In addition to infecting hundreds of thousands and killing many people around the world, the coronavirus pandemic has caused a delay in numerous major events, including elections. France Halted Local Elections Due to Coronavirus France has decided to postpone the...
“The vast majority of people infected with Covid-19 — between 50 and 75% — are completely asymptomatic, but represent a formidable source of contagion,” explained Sergio Romagnani, Professor of Clinical Immunology at the University of Florence. How Did Romagnani Reach...
The word “lockdown” has become one of the most familiar terms during the new coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Lockdown is an emergency ruling that prohibits people from departing and entering an area aimed at preventing the spread of the disease. Several...
Eight thousand migrants are currently being held up at the border between Bosnia and Croatia, a strip of Bosnian territory which runs from Bihac to Velika Kladusa. Approximately half of them live in refugee camps — of which there are...
As the coronavirus continues to impact upon the global economy, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde has launched an emergency €750 billion package to ease the impact of the pandemic. It will buy government and company...
I have never made peace with the single rough photograph I took of Edward Limonov in the living room of his house in Moscow. It’s a domestic, amateur portrait that you’d find in a private album of memories, but now...
In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, French President Emmanuel Macron declared that his country “is at war.” At 12 p.m. on Tuesday, he closed his country’s borders and ordered people to stay at home. Macron described Covid-19 as “an...
Almost 21 years have passed since the bloody fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Communist dictatorship and Romania is still struggling to find its own place in the world, entangled between the path to Westernization and the will to keep its centuries-old...
On Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a raft of new social distancing measures to help prevent the coronavirus epidemic from spreading further. The UK Government is encouraging everyone to take the following actions: People should avoid meeting friends...
As pharmaceutical companies worldwide scramble to develop a vaccine for the Corvid-19 coronavirus, US President Donald Trump attempted to secure the exclusive rights to a possible cure. CureVac, a Germany-based company, was one of nearly two dozen research firms invited...