COVID-19 UPDATE | MASS TESTING PILOT SCHEME IN LIVERPOOL, 38,000 NEW CASES IN INDIA

Tue 03 October 2020: Global coronavirus pandemic has infected over 47.3 million people and claimed more than 1.2 million lives. Here are the updates for November 3: Ukraine reports record cases Ukraine registered a record 8,899 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Tuesday, up from the Oct. 30 […]

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EU: FRESH LOCKDOWNS FUEL ANGRY PROTESTS AS GLOBAL COVID-19 CRISIS DEEPENS

Mon 02 November 2020: Anger and exasperation over new coronavirus curbs grew Sunday as European nations wound back the clocks to the spring with fresh lockdowns and restrictions aimed at halting galloping infections and deaths. Protesters in several Spanish cities clashed with security forces for a second night running Saturday, police said, while England prepared […]

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AFRICA: CORONAVIRUS CASES SURPASS 1.79M, DEATH TOLL EXCEEDS 43,000

Mon 02 November 2020: The total number of recoveries from the novel coronavirus in Africa topped 1.46 million, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday. The total number of cases on the continent surpassed 1.79 million, while the death toll rose to 43,176, it said. Southern Africa is the hardest […]

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THOUSANDS PROTEST IN MUNICH AGAINST COVID-19 MEASURES

Mon 02 November 2020: Some 1,900 people protested on Sunday in the city ofMunichagainst Germany’s coronavirus shutdown, police said, at what organizers initially billed as a “church service.” “This is not about freedom of assembly,” one of the speakers said at Theresienwiese, the official grounds of the city’s famous Oktoberfest, before calling on participants to pray with him. […]

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‘FIRE FAUCI’: TRUMP SUGGESTS FIRING DR. FAUCI OVER CORONAVIRUS NEWS COVERAGE

Mon 02 November 2020: President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire the nation’s top infectious disease expert after Tuesday’s election, as he expresses frustration that the coronavirus remains in the news amid a nationwide spike of COVID-19. Rallying supporters after midnight in Florida, Trump suggested that the virus would get less news coverage […]

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WHO CHIEF TEDROS QUARANTINES AFTER CONTACT WITH CORONAVIRUS CASE

Mon 02 November 2020: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Sunday that he had been identified as a contact of someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus but remained healthy. “I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for #COVID19. I am well and without symptoms […]

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BORIS JOHNSON ANNOUNCES NEW MONTHLONG LOCKDOWN IN ENGLAND

Sun 01 November 2020: England will go into a new monthlong lockdown on Thursday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Saturday. In a news conference with top government scientific advisers, he admitted that the current system of local lockdowns was no longer enough to stop the soaring coronavirus infection rate. “From Thursday until the start of […]

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