Fri 09 October 2020: The European Union on Thursday donated 900,000 COVID-19 testing kits to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, a public health agency. EU Commissioner for External Affairs Josep Borrell and Kwesi Quartey, deputy chairperson at the African Union, attended the handover ceremony at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, […]
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Fri 09 October 2020: “The health situation continues to deteriorate in France,” Veran said at the top of his speech. PARIS – COVID-19 infections continued to climb Thursday in France with 18,129 new cases and 77 additional fatalities registered, according to the Health Ministry. The total number cases rose to 671,638 with the death […]
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Fri 09 October 2020: ‘I fully anticipate the president’s safe return to public engagements at that time,’ says Sean Conley US President Donald Trump’s physician said Thursday that he fully anticipates the president’s safe return to public engagements by Saturday. In a memo, White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said Trump has completed his course […]
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Thu 08 October 2020: Unemployment is seen as the biggest worry over the next 10 years for business executives around the world, closely followed by concern about the spread of infectious diseases, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum. Unemployment rates have rocketed due to lockdowns and other restrictions to combat the coronavirus […]
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Thu 08 October 2020: The findings of the study suggest that geographically, the country that benefited most was China, where billionaire wealth grew fastest of all in Asia The total wealth of billionaires across the globe has risen to $10.2 trillion as of the end of July — a new high after the year’s V-shaped […]
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Thu 08 October 2020: Latin America accounts for over one third of COVID-19 deaths globally BOGOTA, Colombia Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Brazil have passed 5 million, with the country’s death toll approaching 150,000, health authorities confirmed Wednesday. The country reported 31,553 new cases, bringing the total number of infections to 5,000,694. More […]
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Wed 07 October 2020: Figure is 2nd highest single-day tally in several months, after lock downs lifted Twelve people died from corona virus in Pakistan over the past 24 hours, the second-highest single-day tally in the last several months, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. The fresh casualties raised the total number of deaths from […]
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Wed 07 October 2020: ‘I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election,’ says US president US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he halted negotiations to provide badly-needed stimulus for the US economy until after the presidential election. Trump blamed Democrats, saying House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking “$2.4 Trillion […]
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Wed 07 October 2020: BioNTech, a German biotechnology firm, applied for the approval of a potential vaccine for COVID-19 by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Dr. Ugur Sahin, a Turkish scientist and co-founder of BioNTech, along with American medicine firm Pfizer, is expecting a license from the EMA for the COVID-19 vaccine candidate BNT162b1 they […]
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Wed 07 October 2020: The largest drop in per capita income will be in South America (9.4%), followed by Central America and Mexico (8.4%). BOGOTA, Colombia – The coronavirus pandemic will have devastating effects on Latin America’s economy, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said Tuesday. ECLAC said in a report […]
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