Sat 23 May 2020: US President Donald Trump demanded churches reopen despite the ongoing COVID-19 threat. In Washington President Trump, facing an uphill battle to be reelected in November, continued to pressure state and local governments to reopen the American economy — even as the toll continues to rise in the world’s hardest-hit country, where […]
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Sat 23 May 2020: Spending on video games in the US jumped to a new April record as locked-down consumers sought refuge in play, industry figures released Friday showed. A total of $1.5 billion was spent on video game hardware, software, accessories and game cards, eclipsing a previous April high of $1.2 billion spent in […]
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Sat 23 May 2020: As COVID-19 continues to devastate the world, a growing number of countries are opting to use invasive surveillance methods to stem the spread of the virus and “flatten the curve”. Since the emergence of the novel coronavirus, several countries, led by Israel, China, Singapore and South Korea, started collecting security camera footage and bank records and […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: (Reuters) Some 80 million children worldwide could be at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio due to disruption of routine immunization during the COVID-19 pandemic, UN agencies and the GAVI vaccine alliance said on Friday. Data shows that “provision of routine immunization services is substantially hindered in at […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: Malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which US President Donald Trump says he has been taking, is tied to increased risk of death in COVID-19 patients, according to a study published in medical journal The Lancet on Friday. The study, which observed more than 96,000 people hospitalised with COVID-19, showed that people treated with the drug, […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: (REUTERS) Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be home quarantined for 14 days after an officer who attended a meeting with him this week tested positive for the new coronavirus, the prime minister’s office said in a statement on Friday. Muhyiddin has tested negative but “all members of the meeting have […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: Human trials continue as country’s death toll climbs to 36,393 Oxford University announced that its COVID-19 vaccine has entered its next phases of human trials, according to a statement on Friday, as British health authorities announced that 351 more people died from the disease across the UK over the past 24 […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: President Andry Rajoelina says Madagascar will sign a confidentiality clause with the World Health Organization on the formulation of COVID-Organics, the purported cure for the coronavirus pandemic. He disclosed this after a teleconference with WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghabreyesus on Wednesday. He also said the WHO had agreed to support the country’s clinical observation process. “Successful […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov was hospitalized with suspected COVID-19 infection in Moscow Thursday, Russian news agencies reported. “Ramzan Kadyrov was taken to Moscow by plane with a suspected case of coronavirus. Now (he) is under medical supervision,” state news agency TASS reported, citing a medical source. News agency RIA Novosti also […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: (AP) The United Nations secretary-general is again urging all parties to conflicts to respond to his call for a global cease-fire to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, pointing to the more than 20,000 civilians killed or injured in attacks in 10 countries last year and millions more forced from their homes. Antonio […]
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