DUBAI: The global community is easing back into normality despite the coronavirus pandemic still taking a toll on human lives and the world economy. With no vaccine against the virus on the horizon countries are betting against a second wave of the infection as they slowly reinvigorate their economies hit hard by the virus, which has affected nearly 5 million people and killed almost 330,000.
May 21, 2020, Thursday (All times in GMT)
17:10 - US airlines announce new safety measures for flights. Watch below...
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16:50 -ÌýFrance's coronavirus death toll in hospitals and nursing homes rises to 28,215 from 28,132 on Wednesday.
16:00 - The UK's daily coronavirus briefing from Downing Street, with a vaccine and whether it should be mandatory or not if discovered among the talking points.
14:30 - The International Monetary FundÌýhas approved emergency coronavirus funding for 59 countries, with a 29 further requests to be considered.
13:30 - The UK's death toll from the COVID-19 virus rises by 338 to 36,042 on Thursday.
12:30 - Scientists in Argentina might have a cheap answer to the COVID-19 crisis...
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09:30 -ÌýIran’s health authority says 10,000 medical workers were infected with coronavirus.
08:00 -ÌýSudan confirms 401 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of infected people to 3,138.
07:44Ìý–British health care workers will on Thursday begin taking part in a University of Oxford-led international trial of to see if they can prevent COVID-19, including one US President Donald Trump says he has been taking.
06:38Ìý– is at risk of a major food crisis and many Lebanese may soon find it hard to afford bread because of an acute financial crunch and the fall-out of COVID-19, the prime minister warned.
06:06Ìý– 2022 organizers are apprehensive football fans will not travel to Doha to watch games if the coronavirus pandemic continues to hold the global economy in dire straits.
04:16 – President Donald Trump threatened to hold up federal funds for two election battleground states that are trying to make it easier and safer to vote during the coronavirus pandemic.
03:42 – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 745 to 176,752, data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases showed.
03:37 – Australian state and territory leaders bickered over whether to reopen internal borders, a major step to rejuvenating the country’s $50 billion domestic tourism industry, as part of measures to ease coronavirus restrictions.
02:41 – Japan will lift its state of emergency in Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo as the number of new coronavirus infections drops, economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said.
02:26 – After nearly two months sidelined in Guam with a coronavirus outbreak, the USS Theodore Roosevelt has gone out to sea for training, in preparation to return to duty in the Pacific.
