The European Union's top official on Monday proposed a 30-day ban on non-essential travel into the bloc to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, while insisting on the need to keep the internal borders between the 27 member states as open as possible.
Worldwide, over 162,000 people have been infected with the novel coronavirus, 6,000 have died, including one Canadian, and more than 75,000 have recovered.
A young child died in a fire Monday in the overcrowded Moria migrant camp, fire department officials said.
Stock markets in Toronto and New York are set to plunge this morning as investors digest the heavy toll the coronavirus seems likely to have on the global economy.
A growing number of retailers are closing stores or limiting their operating hours as customers remain home in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
Italy’s death toll now exceeds 1,800 people, the highest anywhere in the world outside China. Experts say Canada can take lessons from what happened there.
The relatively few COVID-19 cases in Africa so far has perplexed governments and health care administrators. But now, as the virus pops up across the continent, there’s less looking back and more looking forward with alarm.
A Japanese court sentenced a former care home employee to death Monday for killing more than a dozen disabled people and injuring others four years ago in the deadliest mass attack in postwar Japan
