Middle Eastern countries applied curfews, launched stay at home campaigns and some are enforcing work from home.
Dubai said all government sectors will start working from home on Sunday, while Saudi authorities continue enforcing curfews to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Lebanon has recorded 35 new coronavirus cases, increasing total to 368, Skynews reported.
European airlines’ revenues are now expected to fall by $76 billion in 2020 with capacity down by more than 80 percent year-on-year, IATA said. Many of the region’s airlines have cash for less than two months’ shutdown, an IATA official added.
Hospitals in the British capital are being overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, the head of an organization representing bosses in the state-run National Health Service said on Thursday.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) European office said it saw “encouraging signs” as Italy reported a lower rate of infections of the new coronavirus, cautioning it was too early to say whether the worst had passed. “While the situation remains very serious, we are starting to see some encouraging signs. Italy, which has the highest number of cases in the region, has just seen a slightly lower rate of increase, though it is still too early to say that the pandemic is peaking in that country,” Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, told a press conference.
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