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Παρασκευή, 29 Μαρτίου, 2024

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Παρασκευή, 29 Μαρτίου, 2024

News in brief

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News in brief

Eurozone finance ministers met into the night to discuss the bloc’s financial response to the Covid-19 pandemic, however they failed to reach an agreement. The tele-conference will continue on Thursday, Mario Centeno-the head of the Eurogroup-announced via twitter this morning.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meanwhile welcomed a decision by the European Central Bank to accept Greek government bonds as collateral as a move “that will further boost liquidity in the economy.”

Finance Minister Christos Staikouras hailed the decision as one that will significantly expand the funding sources of Greek banks and consequently strengthen their ability to support the real economy, businesses and households. In addition, he said that it is expected to have a positive effect on the marketability and valuations of Greek bonds.

Government officials said on Tuesday that although the lockdown imposed last month has helped contain the spread of the coronavirus it is too early to lift restrictions.
The Health Ministry announced two new deaths from the coronavirus Tuesday, bringing the total number to 81. In his daily press briefing, ministry spokesman and infectious diseases professor Sotiris Tsiodras said 77 new cases were confirmed.

The total number of Covid-19 infections in Greece stands at 1,832. Ninety patients remain intubated in intensive care units.

Mauro Ferrari resigned unexpectedly as president of the European Research Council, triggering a noisy public spat over why and how he left.

Ferrari, an Italian-American expert in nano-medicine, fired off an angry resignation memo, castigating the European Commission for “a largely uncoordinated cluster of initiatives.” He said he pushed to have the ERC, which focuses on frontier research, launch a special funding round for COVID-19 research. As a result, he said, “I have lost faith in the system itself” and submitted his resignation on 7 April.

British prime minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care. The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, who is running the government while Boris Johnson receives treatment in hospital for coronavirus, says he is confident the prime minister will recover. Johnson is spending a second night in intensive care.

Leading disease data analysts have projected that the UK will become the worst-affected country in Europe, accounting for more than 40% of total deaths across the continent.

Official global death toll passes 82,000. According to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, there have been 82,133 deaths so far. There are currently at least 1,430,453 confirmed cases worldwide.

After 11 weeks of lockdown, the first train departed Wednesday morning from a re-opened Wuhan, the origin point for the coronavirus pandemic, as residents once again were allowed to travel in and out of the sprawling central Chinese city.

US president Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw funding from the World Health Organization, which he says is “China-centric”. At Monday evening’s press briefing, after saying he would withdraw funding, he walked that back and said he was “looking into it”.

Turkey has world’s fastest rising infection rate. The number is increasing by more than 3,000 a day, reaching 30,217 since the first case was confirmed four weeks ago. Reported fatalities remain much lower than other badly hit countries, at 649.

The death toll in Italy continues to rise. The country reported 604 more deaths, though it marked the lowest day-to-day increase in new infections since introducing quarantine measures. New cases rose 0.9% to 880.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, citing a sharp rise in domestic violence amid global coronavirus lockdowns, called on governments around the world to make addressing the issue a key part of their response to the pandemic. “I urge all governments to make the prevention and redress of violence against women a key part of their national response plan to COVID-19,” he said.

And the weather forecast…

Partly cloudy in Attica this morning. Showers are forecast for this afternoon in the north and east. Winds will be blowing from the north at a speed of 7-9 on the beaufort scale. The temperature will reach a maximum of 14 degrees Celsius.

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