Tue 02 June 2020: (Reuters) – Black and Asian people in England are up to 50% more likely to die after being infected with COVID-19, an official study said on Tuesday, reinforcing previous reports which indicated ethnic minority groups were more at risk from the virus. The report by Public Health England (PHE) to examine […]
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Tue 02 June 2020: Africa’s coronavirus cases have surpassed 150,000 while the World Health Organization says the continent of 1.3 billion people is still the region least affected. Concerns remain high as some of Africa’s 54 countries struggle with when to reopen schools and parts of their economies. Rwanda, the first nation in sub-Saharan Africa […]
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Tue 02 June 2020: Pupils wearing face masks returned to school in Singapore on Tuesday and some workplaces re-opened as coronavirus restrictions were eased in the hard-hit city-state. Singapore initially kept infections low through a strict regime of testing and contact-tracing, only for major outbreaks to emerge from crowded dormitories housing low-paid foreign workers. The country has […]
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Tue 02 June 2020: (Reuters) – The six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations are facing their worst economic crisis in history amid the double shock of plunging oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) said. Overall real gross domestic product (GDP) will contract 4.4% this year, despite some indications that […]
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Tue 02 June 2020: An employee in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said on Monday, without saying whether the 70-year-old leader had been exposed. A statement from Netanyahu’s office said an “epidemiological investigation is being conducted, which will provide appropriate guidelines for those who came into contact” […]
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Tue 02 June 2020: Researchers concluded single-layer cloth masks are less effective while tight-fitting N95 masks provide best protection. Masks and social distancing can help control the coronavirus, but hand washing and other measures are still needed, a new study has found. Researchers concluded single-layer cloth masks are less effective than surgical masks, while tight-fitting […]
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Tue 02 June 2020: DR Congo reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in its northwest on Monday, the latest health emergency for a country already fighting an epidemic of the deadly fever in the east as well as a surging number of coronavirus infections. The 11th Ebola outbreak in the vast central African country’s history comes […]
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Tue 02 June 2020: With nearly 30,000 dead in Brazil and more than 10,000 dead in Mexico, the novel coronavirus epidemic threatens to shatter hospital systems across Latin America. Four of the 10 countries showing the greatest number of new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours were in Latin America, the World Health Organization’s […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: The lockdown and social distancing norms in view of coronavirus pandemic has brought about several changes in our lives. For Britons, the months of lockdown means that six in 10 people haven’t had sex during this time. What makes situation even more grim for them is the new guideline which bans […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: Nigeria will relax restrictions on places of worship that were imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the chairman of the presidential task force for COVID-19 has said. Boss Mustapha, in a speech to journalists in the capital Abuja, also said a lockdown in the northern city of Kano […]
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