BISHKEK: A 61-year-old coronavirus victim has died in Kyrgyzstan, the government said on Friday, the first virus fatality in the central Asian nation.
The patient, treated in a hospital in the southern province of Osh, had suffered from other serious diseases, the authorities said.
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Kyrgyzstan reports first coronavirus death
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Kyrgyzstan reports first coronavirus death
- This is the first virus fatality in central Asia
Germany’s Merz and Ukraine’s Zelensky praise truce efforts
- Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin had agreed to a week-long halt on attacks
BERLIN: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday welcomed “efforts in favor of a truce,” Berlin said, after Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin had agreed to a week-long halt on attacks on Ukraine’s power grid.
Merz at the same time stressed that “the systematic and brutal destruction of Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure by Russian attacks” was “still ongoing,” which he condemned “in the strongest terms,” his spokesman, Stefan Kornelius, said.
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