Ankara [Turkey], Mar 6 (Sputnik/ANI): Russian-made S-400 air defence missile systems will enter service in Turkey in April, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
Ankara [Turkey], Mar 06 (Sputnik/ANI): Turkey "neutralized" 21 Syrian troops in Syria's Idlib in response to a death of a Turkish soldier earlier this week, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported citing the country's Defense Ministry.
Seoul [South Korea], Mar 06 (Sputnik/ANI): The number of confirmed novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in South Korea has risen by 518 to 6,284 over the past day, the Health Ministry's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said on Friday.
Wuhan [China], Mar 06 (Sputnik/ANI): The death toll from coronavirus in China reached 3,042 with the number of people infected with a deadly virus in the country increased to 80,552 on Friday.
Moscow [Russia], Mar 6 (Sputnik/ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it had registered 2,241 new confirmed cases of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worldwide within the past 24 hours, with 84 people having died, which brought the total death toll to 3,282.
Moscow [Russia], Mar 6 (Sputnik/ANI): Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has ordered to introduce a 'high readiness regime' in the Russian capital due to the threat of the spread of new coronavirus infection, according to a decree published on the portal of the city government on Thursday.
Washington D. C. [USA], Mar 6 (Sputnik/ANI): The US Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a USD 8.3 billion emergency funding bill for response efforts to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Tehran [Iran], Mar 5 (Sputnik/ANI): The total number of COVID-19 cases in Iran has reached 3,513, while the death toll from the infection has risen to 107, Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Thursday.
Bangkok [Thailand], Mar 05 (Sputnik/ANI): Thailand on Thursday confirmed four more coronavirus cases in the country, which brings the total number of those infected with the deadly virus to 47.
New York [USA], Mar 5 (Sputnik/ANI): Five new coronavirus cases have been identified in the US state of New York, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 11, while more than a hundred people statewide are under voluntary quarantine, Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a press briefing.
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 5 (Sputnik/ANI): The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a USD 8.3 billion emergency funding bill to help contain and treat the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 5 (Sputnik/ANI): The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) could inflict a USD 50 billion damage to international trade, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Wednesday (local time), citing its recent estimates of the situa