Sun 19 July 2020: ANKARA (AA) – Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced on Sunday. Onyeama is also a member of the coronavirus Presidential Task Force in Nigeria. ”Did my fourth Covid-19 test yesterday at the first sign of a throat irritation and unfortunately this time it came back […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: A new generation of social protection is needed, including universal health coverage and perhaps maybe even a universal basic income he said Delivering the annual Nelson Mandela lecture online on Saturday, Guterres said the pandemic “has been likened to an X-ray, revealing fractures in the fragile skeleton of the societies we have built”. […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: New research by Monash University in Australia has been able to detect positive COVID-19 cases using blood samples in about 20 minutes, and identify whether someone has contracted the virus. In a discovery that could advance the worldwide effort to limit the community spread of COVID-19 through robust contact tracing, researchers […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: Mecca reported the highest number of new infections, with 224 cases. Meanwhile, Riyadh recorded 212 new cases, Jeddah recorded 189, and Al Hafouf recorded 182, according to the health ministry. Forty people died due to complications caused by COVID-19. This brings the total number of virus-related deaths in Saudi Arabia to […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: PARIS (AA) – Wearing masks will be compulsory for all indoor spaces in France beginning July 20, according to a Saturday announcement by Health Minister Olivier Veran. It is the latest preventative measure by the government to avoid a second wave of the novel coronavirus. French President Emmanuel Macron announced after Bastille […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: India sees nearly 39,000 cases in record single-day spike bringing tally close to 1.1M mark With 38,902 new cases and 543 deaths in the last 24 hours, India early Sunday recorded its biggest surge in COVID-19 cases to date. The country’s case tally to date is now at 1,077,618, as the […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: Some 1,579 new cases seen in last 24 hours as recoveries top 200,000 mark Pakistan’s daily coronavirus tally continued to fall, as the country recorded only 1,579 new cases over the past 24 hours, the lowest single-day sum since May, Health Ministry data said Sunday. With the new cases, the total […]
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Sat 18 July 2020: COVID-19 vaccine developed by Imperial College London also enters next phase of trials Following successful trials, the British government is set to start distributing millions of free coronavirus antibody tests, local media reported on Saturday. The finger-prick tests can tell within 20 minutes if a person has been exposed to the […]
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Sat 18 July 2020: Half of country’s infections reported in past month, official data shows Over 2,700 more infections have taken the number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh past the 200,000 mark, officials announced on Saturday. At least 2,709 more people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, raising the overall count to […]
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Sat 18 July 2020: Health Ministry report estimates that 30-35M people in Iran are at risk of contracting virus in coming months TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – An estimated 25 million people have contracted the coronavirus in Iran in the past five months, with around 4,000 deaths, the Iranian Health Ministry said Saturday. The ministry warned […]
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