The coronavirus crisis has hit Italy’s already historically-low birth rate, new projections from the national statistics agency reveal. Italy had last year already recorded its lowest number of births for 150 years, at 420,000, but this could fall to 408,000 in 2020 and 393,000 in 2021, according to Istat. The ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s permanent representative to Vienna-based international organizations has expressed concerns about the effects of unilateral sanctions on developing countries’ fight against the coronavirus outbreak, underlining the need for a coordinated global response to the pandemic. Kazem Gharibabadi made the remarks in an address to the ...
