Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin told President Vladimir Putin that he had been diagnosed with the coronavirus. Speaking at a televised meeting, Mishustin suggested that First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov should serve as acting prime minister in his absence. Putin supported his proposal.
The eurozone economy shrank by 3.8% in the first quarter of the year as coronavirus lockdown measures began to bite, official data has shown.
The Spanish economy shrank by 4.1% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, and 5.2% compared to the last 2019 Q4.
Italy's economy slumped 4.7% in the first quarter of 2020,
The French economy has shrunk by 5.8% in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter -- the biggest drop since the country began recording its quarterly GDP in 1949, said France's national statistics agency, INSEE, on Thursday.
South Korea: The country reported zero local transmissions yesterday for the first time since February 18. Four new cases yesterday were imported.
Germany's labs have increased their coronavirus testing capacity to 141,815 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests a day, according to the Robert Koch Institute, the national center for disease control. That means 860,494 tests a week,
NASCAR will be the first major sport in the United States to return to action amid the COVID-19 pandemic after the organisers of the popular racing series said that the season will resume without fans in mid-May.
Britain is "past the peak" of its coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, despite recording another 674 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Poland: People working or studying close to the Polish border will be able to cross it regularly again as of May 4 without needing to undergo a two-week quarantine. This applies to those resident in areas of Germany, Lithuania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic close to the land border with Poland. But entry into Poland remains barred to all others unless they undergo the two-week quarantine.
Pfizer aims to make 10-20 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine it is developing with Germany's BioNtech by the end of 2020 for possible emergency use depending on trial results, the US drugmaker's vaccines head said.
Bosnia's central government extended until June a halt to all passenger air traffic to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Britain's government is focused on May 7 when a review of social distancing measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak is due, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.
US Unemployment: More than 30 million people have filed unemployment claims since mid-March after parts of the economy were shut down to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. The US registered an additional 3.8 million unemployment claims last week, according to data released by the Department of Labor on Thursday.
Japan PM said it will be "hard" to lift a nationwide state of emergency next week as local media reported, but he plans for an extension, possibly by another month.
The top U.S. spy agency said for the first time that the nation’s collective intelligence community does not believe that the coronavirus was man-made or genetically modified.
Germany is poised to reopen churches, mosques and synagogues for religious services, but under stringent conditions, a government source told AFP news agency Thursday.
Tajikistan has confirmed its first 15 coronavirus cases, the Healthcare Ministry has said. Five cases have been confirmed in the capital city of Dushanbe and 10 more in the Sughd province which borders Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Schools in Hungary will remain closed until the end of May and events with more than 500 participants cannot be held until Aug. 15, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff Gergely Gulyas has said.
US Vice President Mike Pence wore a mask while touring an Indiana facility that is making ventilators, two days after igniting a storm of criticism for failing to put on a mask during a visit to the Mayo Clinic despite strict coronavirus restrictions there.
Vice President seen wearing a face mask at the GM plant in Kokomo, IN with Transport Secretary Elaine Chao and General Motors CEO Mary Barra, after being criticized for not wearing a mask during a recent visit to the Mayo Clinic.
Honda Motor is joining General Motors, Ford Motor and others in assisting the health-care industry with ventilators amid the coronavirus pandemic. Honda is producing diaphragm compressors, a key component of portable ventilators, aiming to produce 10,000 compressors per month once production reaches capacity.
Amazon recorded sales of $75.4 billion in the first three months of the year, a record for the ecommerce giant, as many consumers stepped up their online purchases during coronavirus-fueled lockdowns.