World΄s fastest man tests positive for coronavirus
coronavirus
25 Aug 2020
/ 18:33
(CGTN Europe) World record sprinter Usain Bolt has tested positive for the virus after celebrating his 34th birthday last week. The eight-time Olympic Champion is self-isolating in his home in Jamaica.
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- Germany has urged its citizens against all non-essential travel to Paris and the French Cote d’Azur region amid a rising number of infections there.
- Germany’s economy contracted by a record 9.7 percent in Q2 as the country continues to struggle amid the pandemic.
- British drug maker AstraZeneca has begun testing a new COVID-19 vaccine. The test will be carried out on up to 48 healthy participants between the ages of 18 and 55 to determine whether it's safe and tolerable.
- Hungary’s Wizz Air has said it is confident its prearranged expansion in the UK would still go ahead, despite government quarantine rules.
- Europe’s football governing body UEFA has ruled that Slovakian team Slovan Bratislava and Kosovo’s FC Pristina have forfeited their respective European qualifying matches that were called off after outbreaks of the virus at both clubs.
- It has been recommended that secondary school pupils in Scotland wear face coverings in all school communal areas and on school transport. But the country’s education secretary John Swinney said no one should be sent home for not wearing one.
- Germany has urged its citizens against all non-essential travel to Paris and the French Cote d’Azur region amid a rising number of infections there.
- Germany’s economy contracted by a record 9.7 percent in Q2 as the country continues to struggle amid the pandemic.
- British drug maker AstraZeneca has begun testing a new COVID-19 vaccine. The test will be carried out on up to 48 healthy participants between the ages of 18 and 55 to determine whether it's safe and tolerable.
- Hungary’s Wizz Air has said it is confident its prearranged expansion in the UK would still go ahead, despite government quarantine rules.
- Europe’s football governing body UEFA has ruled that Slovakian team Slovan Bratislava and Kosovo’s FC Pristina have forfeited their respective European qualifying matches that were called off after outbreaks of the virus at both clubs.
- It has been recommended that secondary school pupils in Scotland wear face coverings in all school communal areas and on school transport. But the country’s education secretary John Swinney said no one should be sent home for not wearing one.
