Tue 09 June 2020: (AFP) Delhi authorities warned Tuesday that they expect cases in the Indian capital to shoot up almost 20 times to more than half a million in the coming weeks. India is easing its national lockdown to ease the devastating economic blow dealt by the virus, but the disease is still raging […]
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Tue 09 June 2020: At least 979 people, including health care workers and high-level officials, died in North-Western Nigeria Kano State due to a mysterious disease, said the country’s health minister. Osagie Ehanire said all patients, including high-level officials and health staff, died only within the last five weeks. According to the initial reports, most […]
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Tue 09 June 2020: Tanzania’s leader on Monday declared the East African country “COVID-19 free,” local media reported. President John Magufuli attributed the claimed success over the worldwide pandemic to prayers and fasting that the people of Tanzania have offered to God. “It gives me joy to be the leader of a country that puts […]
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Tue 09 June 2020: (Reuters) – Health minister Matt Hancock launched a study to find out the prevalence and spread of the coronavirus among school children and teachers in England on Tuesday to help inform the phased reintroduction of education after a lengthy national lockdown. The decision to gradually re-open schools has divided opinion, with […]
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Tue 09 June 2020: Google is adding features on its Maps service to alert users about COVID-19-related travel restrictions to help them plan their trips better, the Alphabet Inc. unit said Monday. The update would allow users to check how crowded a train station might be at a particular time, or if buses on a […]
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Tue 09 June 2020: Pakistan recorded more than 100 deaths in a single day from COVID-19 for the first time since keeping statistics in mid-March, when the country first imposed a lock down that has never been total. As of Tuesday, Pakistan recorded 108,316 coronavirus infections, with 4,646 new cases and a death toll that […]
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Tue 09 June 2020: The number of people in South Africa infected with the novel coronavirus exceeded 50,000 on Monday, said the country’s health authority, with 2,594 cases reported in the last 24 hours. “As of today, the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is 50,879, the total number of deaths is 1,080 and the […]
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Tue 09 June 2020: Governments around the world are cautiously peeling back those restrictions to resuscitate their economies while trying to avoid a resurgence of infections. As New York entered phase one of its reopening and some of Europe’s hardest-hit nations lurched back to a new kind of normal, the WHO reported a record number […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: (AFP) The US Justice Department sued a Chinese company for selling nearly a half million fake and substandard N95 respirators to US buyers in April as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country. In a complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, the department said Guangdong-based King Year Packaging and […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: (Reuters) – Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in Britain have been hit harder by job losses during the coronavirus crisis than the population as a whole, researchers have found. The share of BAME people in employment fell to 67.4% in April from 72.0% in February, researchers from the University […]
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