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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Tue 06 October 2020: Country has highest number of cases in Africa, is 10th most affected globally South Africa recorded 40 new COVID-19 related deaths late Monday, bringing the total number fatalities nationwide to 17,016, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced. Mkhize extended his condolences to the loved ones of those who passed on and thanked […]
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Tue 06 October 2020: A vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, without elaborating. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressing the end of a two-day meeting of its Executive Board on the pandemic, said: “We will need vaccines and there is hope that […]
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Tue 06 October 2020: 11,615 new infections, 188 deaths reported in country in single day Russia Tuesday reported 11,615 new cases and 188 fatalities, taking the total number of coronavirus cases to 1.2 million and the death toll to 21,663. The country saw the highest daily number of cases on May 11 when 11,656 cases […]
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Tue 06 October 2020: ‘Don’t be afraid of it. You’re going to beat it,’ says US president in video at White House US President Donald Trump told Americans on Monday not to let the novel coronavirus “dominate you” after arriving at the White House from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he was receiving COVID-19 treatment. […]
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Mon 05 October 2020: First Lady Melania Trump tweeted on Monday that she is “feeling good and will continue to rest at home”. US media has reported that Chad Gilmartin and Karoline Leavitt, both staffers in the White House press office, has tested positive for coronavirus. ABC News reported that Gilmartin had tested positive, while […]
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Mon 05 October 2020: Pandemic will “continue to evolve” but said the world had the tools to help suppress transmission of the coronavirus and save lives Around 10% of the world’s population may have already been infected with COVID-19, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert has said. Dr Michael Ryan, the head of emergencies at […]
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Mon 05 October 2020: Holding undocumented migrants responsible for spikes in cases nevertheless obscures government’s failure, activists say A group of Malaysian activists urged Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yasin to focus on fighting the novel corona virus rather than blaming undocumented migrant workers for the surge in number of virus cases. “The recent statement by Prime […]
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