Fri 15 May 2020: Turkey has sent medical aid to 80 countries to fight the novel coronavirus, the country’s vice president said Thursday. “We have had the opportunity to help 80 countries that have asked us for help so far,” Fuat Oktay said in an interview with online channel Yozgat Camlik TV. The main […]
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Fri 15 May 2020: The new coronavirus could kill 150,000 people in Africa in a year unless urgent action is taken, according to a WHO modelling study that says nearly a quarter of a billion people will be infected. Authors of the research, published Friday in the journal BMJ Global Health, predicted a lower infection […]
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Fri 15 May 2020: The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than a million Rohingya refugees, according to officials. An ethnic Rohingya refugee and a local person tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a United Nations spokeswoman said on Thursday. […]
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Fri 15 May 2020: Nearly one million self-employed workers in Britain applied for a government aid programme that will give them a grant of up to 7,500 pounds ($9,168.75) at the end of second day of the scheme’s operation, The Sun reported late on Thursday. More than 500,000 Britons applied for the government’s new income […]
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Fri 15 May 2020: (Reuters) – People attending Masses in St. Peter’s and other papal basilicas in Rome will have their temperature checked as part of measures to contain the spread of coronavirus, the Vatican said on Thursday. It did not say when the new measures will take effect. Public Masses will resume in churches […]
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Fri 15 May 2020: (Reuters) – Israel’s children can go back to school and nurseries full-time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, as the country presses on with easing its coronavirus curbs. Israel – population nine million – has reported 16,579 cases of the novel coronavirus and 265 deaths. With the new case rate […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than 1 million Rohingya refugees, officials said on Thursday. An ethnic Rohingya refugee and another person had tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a United Nations spokesperson said. It […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: Over 140 past and present world leaders sign letter saying vaccine should not be patented, science should be shared. Past and present world leaders have urged that any eventual COVID-19 vaccines and treatments should be made available to everyone free of charge. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: The US Labor Department said Thursday nearly 3 million more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus continues to hammer the economy. Approximately 2.98 million jobless claims were filed, representing a week-on-week fall of 195,000 claims. The figure is just shy of 3 million for the first time […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: The head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs believes the two big commodity stories looking ahead to 2021 and beyond will concern oil and livestock. The forecast comes at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has prompted many countries across the globe to effectively shut down. It has created an unprecedented demand shock […]
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