COVID-19: AT LEAST 34 MILLION JOBS LOST IN LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN

Fri 02 October 2020: Young people and women are among the groups most affected by crisis, says ILO An estimated 34 million jobs have been lost across Latin America and the Caribbean due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report this week from the International Labor Organization (ILO). The report warned that the crisis […]

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BREAKING NEWS: US PRESIDENT TRUMP AND MELANIA TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

Fri 02 October 2020: US president and first lady are currently under quarantine after Trump’s aide Hope Hicks also tested positive. Trump said in a tweet that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for Covid-19. The president said they will begin “quarantine and recovery process immediately.” The president was tested after Hope Hicks, one of […]

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COVID-19: UGANDA RESUMES COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS

Thu 01 October 2020: New measures against corona virus require incoming passengers to hold negative test certificates Uganda resumed international commercial flights on Thursday roughly six months after closing due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, local media reported. Entebbe International Airport near the capital Kampala resumed commercial operations with six flights on the first day, […]

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INDONESIA TO GIVE OUT REMDESIVIR FOR COVID-19 TREATMENT

Thu 01 October 2020: Pharmaceutical company collaborates with Indian giant to procure anti-viral drug Indonesian pharmaceutical company PT Kalbe Farma is collaborating with India’s PT Amarox Pharma Global to launch antiviral drug Covifor (Remdesivir) for COVID-19 treatment in the Southeast Asian country. Amarox Pharma Global is a subsidiary of Hetero, one of India’s leading generic […]

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WHO CHIEF URGES MORE COUNTRIES TO JOIN COVAX AS DEATH TOLL EXCEEDS 1 MLN

Wed 30 September 2020: One million people are confirmed to have lost their lives to COVID-19, but “the real number is certainly higher”, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a high-level United Nations event on Wednesday. Tedros, addressing the New York event from Geneva, said that 167 countries have now joined the WHO-led […]

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“AN AGONIZING MILESTONE” GLOBAL COVID-19 DEATHS SURPASS ONE MILLION

Tue 29 September 2020: Experts remain concerned that the official figures for deaths and cases globally significantly under-represent the real tally The global death toll from COVID-19 rose past 1 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a bleak milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and changed […]

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