Europe

London, Apr 5 (AFP/PTI) The coronavirus pandemic is increasing poverty in Britain, where levels are already high after a decade of austerity triggered by the global financial crisis, according to experts.

Official data shows that more than 14 million people in the UK are classed as living in poverty, or nearly one-quarter of the population.

MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/: A man has shot dead five people with firearms in the Ryazan Region (central European Russia), a law enforcement source informed TASS.

"The incident occurred in the settlement of Yelatma in the Ryazan Region. A man opened fire on his neighbors in a three-story building, five of them were killed," he said.

The police have detained a man born in 1988 who is suspected of killing five people in the settlement of Yelatma in Russia’s Ryazan Region. 

5 April 2020; AFP: A Sudanese refugee went on a knife rampage in a town in southeastern France on Saturday, killing two people in what is being treated as a terrorist attack.

The attack in broad daylight, which President Emmanuel Macron called "an odious act", took place with the country on lockdown in a bid to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

LONDON (Reuters) - UK deaths from the coronavirus could rise to between about 7,000 and 20,000 under measures taken to slow the spread of the virus, Neil Ferguson, a professor at Imperial College in London who has helped shape the government’s response, said on Sunday.

“We had an exponentially growing curve of infections which we interrupted at a certain time,” the epidemiologist told the BBC’s Andrew Marr program.

TIRANA, Apr 5 (NNN-CNA) – Albania reported 29 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday (Apr 4), the highest daily number in a single day, as 2.8 million Albanians started a third 40-hour lock-down to break the contagion’s chain.

It now has a total of 333 cases and 18 deaths related to COVID-19.

As the map of infections widened, pictures of people milling around in an outdoor market ahead of the 1.00 p.m. lock-down prompted the government to impose stricter rules.

BRUSSELS, Apr 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Spain’s confirmed COVID-19 case tally reached 124,736 on Saturday, surpassing Italy’s 124,632, according to the latest figures from the two countries.

The tally placed Spain first in Europe and second only to the United States worldwide, in terms of confirmed cases.

According to the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering, at Johns Hopkins University, the United States confirmed more than 300,000 infections by Saturday afternoon.

MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/: Moscow calls on all countries to closely coordinate their coronavirus response efforts in order to minimize the death toll and the pandemic’s negative impact on the global economy, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement dedicated to the United Nations General Assembly’s resolution dubbed Global Solidarity to Fight the Coronavirus Disease 2019.

MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/: A household gas explosion that hit a five-story apartment building in the Moscow region’s town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo killed one person and left six injured, a spokesperson for the Russian Emergencies Ministry told TASS.

"The blast killed one and left three people injured," the spokesperson said.

Earlier reports said that the three people had suffered injuries in the explosion.

MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/: There is a positive trend as far as the coronavirus situation in Russia is concerned, head of the national consumer watchdog Anna Popova said in Nailya Asker-Zade’s documentary dubbed Dangerous Virus, which was aired on Rossiya-1.

"We drew up several scenarios, including the best-case and the worst-case ones. Today, we can see a positive trend emerging, mostly because Russia took all necessary measures in the past two months. So we had two months to prepare, and we continue doing it," she said.

MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/: Law enforcement officers in the Russian city of Murmansk have eliminated a militant who planned to carry out a terrorist attack, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement.

"Last night, the Federal Security Service (FSB) located an armed militant in the city of Murmansk who planned to carry out a terrorist attack. When special police force officers tried to detain the man, he opened fire and was eliminated," the statement reads.