Mon 11 May 2020: Saudi Arabia announced on Monday new measures to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus, through reducing expenditure by 100 billion riyals ($26.6 billion). This will be achieved through the cancellation and postponement of some items of operational and capital expenditure, as well as the reduction of some allocations for the realization […]
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Mon 11 May 2020: Swathes of Europe began the long process of re-opening from coronavirus lockdowns on Monday, but the first new infections in weeks at China’s ground zero offered a sobering reminder of the dangers of a second wave of cases. The mixed fortunes illustrated the high-wire act governments face across the globe as […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: Turkey on Saturday sent medical aid equipment to Kazakhstan in order to support the country’s combat against the novel coronavirus pandemic. In a statement released by the Defense Ministry, it said: “Medical aid supplies, prepared at the direction of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for use against the COVID-19 outbreak, have been […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: Death toll tallies pass 2,000 mark, shows update by Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Total cases of the novel coronavirus in Africa officially reached 60,657 on Sunday with a rise of 2,911, according to an update by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). According to […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: (REUTERS) Facebook Inc and YouTube, the video service of Alphabet Inc’s Google, said on Thursday that they were removing a video that made medically unsubstantiated claims relating to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The 26-minute video dubbed “Plandemic” went viral this week across social media platforms. It features Judy Mikovits, an activist […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: New Delhi : An audio clip of Tablighi Jamaat head Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, in which he insisted that coronavirus can do no harm to Muslims and asked Jamaat members not to follow social distancing norms, is possibly “doctored”, Delhi Police Crime Branch has found during probe. Around 2000 devotees from various […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: The United Arab Emirates’ Abu Dhabi Police has launched a mobile coronavirus screening center to support the government’s efforts in preventing the spread of the virus, according to an Abu Dhabi Police social media post on Saturday. The mobile center, created in collaboration with Abu Dhabi’s Department of Health, will be […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: Three members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, another stark reminder that not even one of the nation’s most secure buildings is immune from the virus. Fauci, the director of the National Institute […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: Ivanka Trump’s personal assistant has tested positive for coronavirus, according to US media outlets. Ivanka works as a senior adviser to her father, US President Donald Trump, raising concerns that the virus could be circulating in circles that are in close contact with the 73-year-old president. However, the assistant had been working from […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: The global tally for novel coronavirus infections surpassed 4 million early Sunday, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University. Data showed fatalities worldwide reached 277,860, while the number of patients who recovered stands at 1,348,383. The US remains the hardest-hit country by the virus with more than 1.3 […]
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