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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Women sell face masks and gloves at a public minibus station in Lagos, Nigeria Friday, March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) Thu 14 May 2020: Coronavirus cases in Africa rose to 72,336 as the tiny enclave state of Lesotho in Southern Africa reported its first infection on Thursday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: Turkey’s prestigious Istanbul Film Festival will begin online from Friday, with 15 selected films set to entertain the public from May 15-29. The 39th Istanbul Film Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), originally scheduled from April 10-21, was postponed earlier amid fears of coronavirus or COVID-19 […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: China stocked medical supplies from other countries in January, while WHO kept silent, intelligence officials told Newsweek The CIA said China blocked the World Health Organization (WHO) from issuing a global warning about the coronavirus in January, according to US news magazine, Newsweek. The magazine cited two anonymous intelligence officials who […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: Muslim communities in Italy have been praised for their generosity during the coronavirus crisis after donating more than €500,000 in cash and food aid since the outbreak began more than two months ago. Italy’s death toll so far is approaching 31,000, with almost half the fatalities occurring in Lombardy, the northern […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: The research by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London looked at data to make short-term forecasts for countries – especially developing ones – in two-week trajectories based on reported deaths as an indicator of disease spread. India are expected to jump from 30,806 to 643,649 […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: Yemen in trouble with epidemics, including pneumonic plague, chikungunya virus, along with COVID-19 pandemic Over 600 people, including six government officials, have died in Yemen’s temporary capital, Aden, due to epidemics, according to a government official. On May 1-13, due to epidemics, including pneumonic plague and chikungunya virus, a total of […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: The coronavirus may never go away and populations will have to learn to live with it just as they have HIV, the World Health Organization has warned, as the global death toll from the disease nears 300,000. A vaccine could allow countries and economies to fully re-open from lockdowns and potentially […]
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