Germany lowers coronavirus contagion rate to below oneApril 17, 2020 - 10:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Germany has significantly reduced the rate of contagion, known as R, which shows how quickly the novel coronavirus is spreading, information provided by the Robert Koch Institute reveals. The rate was around 0.9 on Wednesday, April 15 and went as far low as 0.7 on Thursday, meaning that each person with the virus infects another 0.7 people on average, Deutsche Welle reports. In Germany, there were 2,945 new infections in the 24 hours through Friday, taking the total to 137,698, according to data From Johns Hopkins University. The number of German fatalities, meanwhile, rose by 248, the smallest gain in three days, to 4,052, while 77,000 people have recovered from the disease. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |