Category: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Wed 13 May 2020: The southern African country of Lesotho has recorded its first coronavirus case, its health ministry has said, becoming the last nation on the continent to confirm an infection. The ministry on Wednesday said it conducted 81 coronavirus tests on travellers from neighbouring South Africa and Saudi Arabia, of which one was […]

Wed 13 May 2020: The global coronavirus recoveries exceeded the 1.5 million mark on Wednesday, according to a running tally by the US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university’s data showed a total of 1,502,620 people won their battle against the pandemic. The number of cases reached 4,278,180 while 292,316 deaths were recorded. The US has […]

Wed 13 May 2020: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has increased five-fold within a week in Yemen, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revealed on Monday, indicating that the virus has been spreading undetected. “In the week since 2 May, the number of cases increased fivefold from seven cases, […]

Wed 13 May 2020: WHO spokeswoman says there are more than 100 candidate vaccines against COVID-19 The work to develop a vaccine against COVID-19 is moving full throttle but coronaviruses are “tricky”, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) spokeswoman said Tuesday. “The work to develop the vaccine is moving faster than in the history of science, […]

Wed 13 May 2020: Country faces no capacity problems in test kit production, says minister of industry and technology Turkey is exporting novel coronavirus testing kits to more than 50 countries and facing no problems in production capacity, a senior official has said. Underlining that testing kits were some of the most critical elements in […]

Wed 13 May 2020: (AFP) Bitcoin rose Wednesday after undergoing an eagerly awaited adjustment that occurs every few years to limit the amount of the virtual currency on the market, building on a recent coronavirus-driven rally. So-called “halving” takes place every four years and is when the reward received by “miners”, whose computer processors enable […]