Mon 01 June 2020: The World Health Organization chief said Monday he had heard only from the media about US President Donald Trump’s decision of termination to cut ties with the WHO, but the organization wants “continued cooperation”. “The announcement was last Friday as we all heard. And the only communication we have, or announcement, […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: A 100-year-old Indonesian woman has recovered from coronavirus, making her the country’s oldest survivor of the deadly respiratory illness. Kamtim, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, was discharged from hospital this week after a month of treatment in her hometown Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-biggest city, officials said. East Java Governor […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: (Reuters) – The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday. “In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: (Reuters) – Chile has surpassed 100,000 cases of the coronavirus, the health minister said on Monday, as infections have spiraled in the capital Santiago, putting the South American nation´s healthcare system under “extraordinary” strain. The health ministry said total cases since the outbreak began in early March had hit 105,159 while […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: Poverty in the occupied West Bank may double as Palestinians are slammed by the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank warned on Monday. The Palestinian territories have seen low infection rates after acting quickly to curtail the spread of COVID-19, with three deaths out of 450 cases registered […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 5,394 and the number of cases climbed to 1,90,535 in the country, which registered biggest single-day spikes of 230 deaths and 8,392 cases till Monday 8 am, according to the Union health ministry. India is now the seventh worst-hit nation by the novel […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: At least 5,564 more people in Africa tested positive for the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, said the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in its Monday update. The total number of cases in the continent reached 147,099, it said. According to the update, 165 more patients have died […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: Britain will start trials of five new drugs as part of efforts to fight the novel coronavirus, local media reported on Monday. Scientists in the country are looking to sign up hundreds of patients for trials to find a way to prevent people from becoming so ill that they need intensive […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: (Reuters) Russia will start administering its first approved antiviral drug to treat coronavirus patients next week, its state financial backer told Reuters, a move it described as “a game-changer” that should speed a return to normal economic life. Russian hospitals can begin giving the drug to patients starting June 11, with […]
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Mon 01 June 2020: (AP) Aid organizations are making an urgent plea for funding to shore up their operations in war-torn Yemen, saying they have already been forced to stop some of their work even as the coronavirus rips through the country. Some 75% of United Nations programs in Yemen have had to shut their […]
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