Sat 16 May 2020: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday received samples of a herbal concoction that Madagascar claims can cure people infected with the new coronavirus, his office said. Buhari who collected the potion from President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau who visited him in Abuja said the native remedy would be scientifically […]
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Sat 16 May 2020: The Mayor of London urged people in the capital city to stay home this weekend, despite a relaxation of lockdown measures across the United Kingdom. “I want to be clear with Londoners: lockdown has not been lifted,” Sadiq Khan said in a tweet on Saturday.“COVID-19 is still an extremely dangerous threat.”Mayor […]
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Sat 16 May 2020: Coronavirus-related death toll in Brazil hit 15,046 on Saturday, more than all Latin American countries combined. According to a running tally of the Johns Hopkins University, the number of coronavirus infections in Brazil has risen to 222,877 while it registered a daily record of 13,944 new cases on Thursday. In all […]
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Sat 16 May 2020: Another 1,526 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Qatar, bringing the total number of cases in Qatar to 25,149, Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) announced on Tuesday. The ministry added that 179 more patients had recovered from the virus, bringing the total number of patients recovered to […]
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Sat 16 May 2020: A record 9.3 million people are now food insecure in Syria as spiralling prices and the coronavirus pandemic compound the damage of a nine-year war, the World Food Programme said Thursday. “Record high food prices & now Covid-19 have pushed families in Syria beyond their limits,” the World Food Programme wrote on Twitter. “WFP estimates that a […]
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Sat 16 May 2020: Death toll in continent rises to 2,630, recoveries above 29,000 The number of coronavirus cases in Africa exceeded 78,000 on Saturday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its daily update. The death toll rose to 2,630 while recoveries reached 29,452. South Africa recorded 13,500 cases making […]
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Sat 16 May 2020: Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has bought minority stakes in major American companies including Boeing (BA.N), Facebook (FB.O) and Citigroup (C.N), according to a U.S. regulatory filing. The $300 billion Public Investment Fund (PIF) has been buying minority stakes in companies across the world, taking advantage of market weakness in the […]
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Sat 16 May 2020: According to the US National Institutes of Health, studies showed remdesivir cut hospital stays by 31 percent. Gilead Sciences Inc’s two clinical studies of its potential coronavirus treatment remdesivir will wind down by the end of May. The end of these trials effectively closes off a path of patient access to […]
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Sat 16 May 2020: The World Health Organization has said it is studying a possible link between coronavirus and a rare inflammatory illness that has sickened and killed children in Europe and the United States. In recent weeks, several countries have reported cases of children affected by an inflammatory disease with symptoms similar to those […]
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Sat 16 May 2020: The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Friday expressed concern over a possible COVID-19 outbreak in refugee camps in Bangladesh, which house over a million Rohingya refugees. “There are serious concerns about the potentially severe impact of the virus in the densely populated refugee settlements sheltering some 860,000 Rohingya refugees,” UNHCR spokesperson […]
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