Fri 12 June 2020: Olena, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Friday she had tested positive for coronavirus, but her husband and their two children had tested negative. “Today I received a positive test for coronavirus. Unexpected news. Especially considering that I and my family continue to follow all the rules – […]
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Fri 12 June 2020: Pakistan’s economy was already on life support before officials began shuttering large segments of the economy in March as an array of lockdown measures were rolled out to fight the coronavirus spread. The country has since called for debt forgiveness from international donors and the IMF as tax revenues cratered, inflation […]
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Fri 12 June 2020: ‘GDP fell by 20.4% in month, largest fall since monthly records began in 1997,’ says Office for National Statistics The UK’s economy has experienced a significant shock since the start of the pandemic as its GDP fell dramatically in April, according to the Office for National Statistics on Friday. “GDP fell […]
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Fri 12 June 2020: A worrying social crisis is brewing in Latin America where the coronavirus pandemic is spiralling. More than 1.5 million people have been infected in Central and South America — 72,000 of them are already dead — with no signs of the disease slowing, especially in hard-hit Brazil. The crisis could provoke […]
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Thu 11 June 2020: The World Health Organization says the pandemic in Africa is “accelerating” and that while it took 98 days for the continent to reach 100,000 Covid-19 cases, it took just 18 days to get to 200,000. WHO Africa chief Matshidiso Moeti said that community transmission has begun in more than half of […]
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FILE PHOTO Thu 11 June 2020: Malaysia said on Thursday its citizens would be barred from making the haj pilgrimage this year due to concerns over the new coronavirus. Every year, Malaysia sends tens of thousands of pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, home of Islam’s two holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, for the annual event. Malaysia […]
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Thu 11 June 2020: Shehbaz Sharif, President of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a party spokesperson confirmed on Thursday (11 June). Sharif, 69, a cancer survivor, was currently isolating at home, Geo News quoted spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb as saying, adding that the Leader of Opposition was following his doctors’ […]
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Thu 11 June 2020: Among COVID-19 conspiracy theorists, Bill Gates is legend. He has been the subject of several false narratives that either blame him for the outbreak or accuse him of trying to profit from it. None of these stories are true, even though they continue to proliferate on YouTube, Facebook, and darker corners of […]
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Thu 11 June 2020: The coronavirus crisis has triggered the worst global recession in nearly a century – and the pain is not over yet even if there is no second wave of infections, an international economic report warned Wednesday. Hundreds of millions of people have lost their jobs, and the crisis is hitting the […]
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Thu 11 June 2020: Since first appearing in Wuhan, China last December, the novel coronavirus has spread to at least 188 countries and regions. Across the Atlantic, the European Union said it hoped to reopen its external borders to foreigners in July, as leaders look to loosen the economic stranglehold of virus lockdowns that are triggering a […]
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