Some 7,294,130 cases have been registered in 196 countries and territories.
The United States is the worst-hit country with 112,402 deaths, followed by Britain with 41,128, Brazil with 38,406, Italy with 34,114 and France with 29,139 fatalities.Health authorities in Russia's capital say a total of 15,713 people died in May, 5,715 more than during the same month last year.France will lose 800,000 jobs in the coming months because of the economic crisis provoked by the pandemic, says Economy Minister Bruno Le Marie.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says the decision applies to countries outside the EU and the no-passport Schengen zone.Japan's powerful lower house of parliament approves an emergency budget worth nearly $300 billion, doubling the scale of measures to pep up the world's third-biggest economy after the pandemic tipped it into recession.Fifty relatives of virus victims file complaints about the handling of the pandemic in the first such legal group action in Italy.
They are filed at the prosecutors' office in Bergamo, the city in northern Italy worst hit by the pandemic,"because it has become the symbol of this tragedy", says Stefano Fusco, who created the group on Facebook.Spain's Inditex, the textile giant which owns fashion chain Zara, posts its first Q1 loss in nearly 20 years: 409 million euros, compared with a net profit of 734 million euros in 2019.
Its online sales, however, post strong growth during the same period. Analysts with Bankinter say the results show the"severe but temporary" impact of the virus crisis.Nineteen staff in the office of Azerbaijan's president test positive and another 13 cases are confirmed among employees at the emergency situations ministry and the labour ministry, says anti-virus task force spokesman Ramin Bairamly.
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