The European Union Commission announced on Friday it supported six member states with an estimated 14 million euros ($16 million) to transport COVID-19 vaccination-related equipment and COVID-19 therapeutics under the mobility package of the Emergency Support Instrument (ESI)

Prosecutors in the northern Italian city of Mantua said Friday they would launch a criminal case over doctor Giuseppe De Donno's suicide, who had actively promoted an alternative therapy against COVID-19 using plasma

The forth wave of COVID-19 began in Italy, where the deaths rose by 46% in the course of one week, the Gimbe health foundation said on Thursday

Countries in northwestern Europe are currently grappling with the fallout of a devastating series of floods that led to the deaths of more than 200 people, and experts told Sputnik that extreme weather events such as these could occur with far greater frequency over the coming decades due to the impact of climate change