Mon 05 October 2020: US President Donald Trump sparked an angry backlash from the medical community Sunday with a protocol-breaking visit to his supporters outside the hospital where he is being treated for the highly-infectious, potentially deadly new coronavirus. Trump has consistently downplayed the pandemic and, prior to his diagnosis, rarely wore a mask. The […]
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Mon 05 October 2020: Restaurants will be able to stay open if they follow health protocols, but bars will close as of Tuesday for 15 days Paris and the Ile-de-France region were put on maximum coronavirus alert late Sunday with more restrictions to come. The capital is the latest major city to be placed at […]
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Sun 24 October 2020: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said anyone concealing a COVID-19 infection should face a severe penalty Schools, libraries, mosques and other public institutions in Tehran were closed for a week on Saturday as part of measures to stem a rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, Reuters reported citing authorities in the Iranian capital as saying. The […]
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Sun 04 October 2020: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows revealed that President Donald Trump’s condition on Friday was far worse than officials had made public, saying doctors recommended the president go to the hospital after seeing he had a fever and his blood oxygen level dropped rapidly. Meadows made the comments in an […]
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Sun 04 October 2020: US president ‘feeling better’ after being admitted into hospital but chief of staff says Trump’s symptoms ‘very concerning’. President Trump, who was admitted to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday for COVID-19 treatment, said in a four-minute long Twitter video on Saturday night that he is feeling “much better.” “I think […]
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Sun 4 October 2020: It is unclear how many new cases are from Saturday and how many are from the previous period Britain announced an additional 12,872 new cases of the coronavirus in the UK in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 480,017. The huge rise is almost double Friday’s figure. A “technical […]
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Sat 03 October 2020: India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating. Total deaths rose to 100,842, the health ministry said, while the tally of […]
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Sat 03 October 2020: “The COVID-19 pandemic is causing untold fear and suffering for older people across the world,”UN Secretary-General António Guterres said back in May. “Beyond its immediate health impact, the pandemic is putting older people at greater risk of poverty, discrimination and isolation. It is likely to have a particularly devastating impact on older […]
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Sat 03 October 2020: US President Donald Trump remains “fatigued” after contracting coronavirus and has been injected with an experimental antibody cocktail for COVID-19, according to a memo by the president’s physician issued on Friday. “Following PCR-confirmation of the President’s diagnosis, as a precautionary measure he received a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron’s polyclonal […]
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Fri 02 October 2020: Russian President Vladimir Putin wished Donald Trump a speedy recovery in a telegram today, saying he was sure the US leader’s qualities would help him fight off the coronavirus. “I am certain that your inherent vitality, good spirits and optimism will help you cope with this dangerous virus,” Putin wrote to […]
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