Tue 14 July 2020: More than 13 million people around the world have been diagnosed with COVID-19, 7.3 million have recovered, and more than 573,000 have died, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University. The US, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Italy have recorded the most deaths. Below are the five most-affected countries. […]
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Tue 14 July 2020: Up to 9.7 million children face a growing risk of never going back to class, leading humanitarian organization Save the Children warned Monday as the coronavirus pandemic exacerbates education inequality in the world with 90% of the global student population affected by school closures. With many young people required to work […]
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Mon 13 July 2020: Annual UN study on world hunger shows rising trend since 2014, forecasts heavy impact from COVID-19 ROME (AA) – Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, a yearly UN study showed. According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the […]
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Mon 13 July 2020: Massachusetts attorney general, leader of 18-member coalition, calls US government’s new rule ‘cruel, abrupt, unlawful’ ANKARA (AA) – A coalition of 17 US states and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security to block a new visa rule for international students amid the coronavirus outbreak. The […]
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Mon 13 July 2020: Country re-imposes night curfew as average daily cases cross 12,000 South Africa’s president has advised the public to follow COVID-19 measures seriously as scientists predict the virus could kill up to 50,000 people in the country this year. “Scientists and other scenario planners have presented us with models that project that […]
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Mon 13 July 2020: The pandemic could potentially get far worse if all nations do not adhere to basic healthcare precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. “Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number one,” Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a […]
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Mon 13 July 2020: More than 3,000 healthcare workers are known to have died of the new coronavirus, according to Amnesty International, as it raises concerns about unsafe working conditions, low pay, long hours and violence against medical workers in some countries. In a new report published on Monday, the United Kingdom-based rights group said Russia at 545 had […]
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Mon 13 July 2020: The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), a global trade union and civil society groups urged the Group of 20 major economies to extend and expand a freeze in debt service payments to help not just the poorest, but also middle-income countries, weather the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout. The ICC, […]
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Mon 13 July 2020: Since alcohol sales were reintroduced in June, hospitals have experienced a spike in emergency ward admissions. South Africa extended measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus Sunday as the number of cases in the country continued to rise. In a nationally televised address on Sunday, Ramaphosa said top health […]
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Mon 13 July 2020: India records 25,000-plus cases for 5 days in a row NEW DELHI (AA) – With 28,701 new cases in the last 24 hours, India Monday saw the biggest surge in COVID-19 cases for the fifth day in a row, the Health Ministry data showed. The country’s total tally of infections rose […]
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