Wed 08 July 2020: Following through on a threat he made in May, the Trump administration on Tuesday notified the United States Congress that it is formally withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO). Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced the move on Twitter. Congress received notification that POTUS […]
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Wed 08 July 2020: COVID-19 pandemic will push 176 million more people into extreme poverty, report says GENEVA (AA) – The global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more than 250 million people to the brink of starvation and dashed hopes of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, a UN expert said in a report on Tuesday. The […]
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Tue 07 July 2020: Special Investigating Unit is probing complaints including corruption regarding misuse of COVID-19 relief funds JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africa is probing allegations of corruption involving 500 billion rands ($26.3 billion) relief fund allocated by the government to ease the impact of COVID-19, an official said on Tuesday. Kaizer Kganyago, a spokesman […]
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Tue 07 July 2020: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro announced Tuesday that he has tested positive for coronavirus. “I feel good, all normal,” Bolsonaro said in a live interview on state-run TV Brasil, after announcing his test results. The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced live on television he has tested positive for coronavirus. “It came back […]
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Tue 07 July 2020: Rutgers researchers say further study is needed but those with the chronic respiratory disease don’t appear to be at a higher risk of getting extremely ill or dying from coronavirus Asthma does not appear to increase the risk for a person contracting COVID-19 or influence its severity, according to a team […]
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Tue 07 July 2020: To prevent future outbreaks, we must become much more deliberate about protecting natural environment, says UNEP official WASHINGTON (AA) – Further outbreaks will emerge unless governments take active measures to prevent other zoonotic diseases from crossing into the human population, according to a UN report Monday. COVID-19, Ebola, MERS, West Nile and […]
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Tue 07 July 2020: Despite overall cases in region continuing to rise, countries have begun to gradually ease lockdown measures BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Latin American countries, most of which imposed lockdowns in March to contain the novel coronavirus, are struggling to enforce quarantines in the face of rising economic hardships. Many have begun gradually easing […]
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Tue 07 July 2020: Campaign will last three months, says health minister ANKARA (AA) – The Burundian government has launched a three-month nation-wide coronavirus screening campaign, local media reported late Monday. The campaign has started in the capital Bujumbura, and will extend to other provinces next week, according to SOS Médias Burundi. “We were pleasantly surprised […]
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Tue 07 July 2020: NEW DELHI (AA) – India’s death count due to COVID-19 crossed 20,000 on Tuesday with 467 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry. Meanwhile, total cases in the country have reached 719,665. Over the past day, 22,252 new cases were reported. Indian Council for Medical Research has tested more […]
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Mon 06 July 2020: Germany’s official app for tracking cases of the coronavirus has been downloaded 15 million times since it was released almost three weeks ago, the government’s agency for disease control said on Monday. The use of the app is purely voluntary. It is designed to track known coronavirus cases and use decentralized […]
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