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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Sun 10 May 2020: (AFP) In a world suddenly fearful of touch, voice technology is getting a fresh look. Voice-activated systems such as Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Apple’s Siri have seen strong growth in recent years, and the virus pandemic could accelerate that, analysts say. Voice assistants are not only answering queries and shopping, […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: The US federal government is sending supplies of the first drug that appears to help speed the recovery of some COVID-19 patients to six states, where it will be distributed by health departments. The US Department of Health and Human Services announced Saturday that it is delivering 140 cases of the […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has approved amendments to the country’s state of emergency that grant him and security agencies additional powers, which the government says are needed to combat the coronavirus outbreak. An international rights group condemned the amendments, saying the government has used the global pandemic to expand, not reform, […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday it was easing the lockdown, imposed over the coronavirus, in the holy city of Madinah. The restrictions will be relaxed in the neighborhoods of Sharibat, Bani Zafar, Qurban, al-Jomaa and parts of al-Iskan and Bani Khidra, said the Interior Ministry. The decision is effective as of […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Russia completed a week of more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases per day on Saturday but also reported its highest single-day tally of recoveries so far. A total of 10,817 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, while 5,308 patients were discharged from hospitals over the same period, […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Dozens of vulnerable families from a slum area in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Saturday received food and non-food assistance from the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA). “I have not eaten anything for the past three days, I was a housemaid for a family in Runda [affluent suburb] but they […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Desperate times call for desperate measures, or so the saying goes, and in the continued battle against the coronavirus, we may be asked to forfeit our privacy in an attempt to control the rate of infections. The UK government has announced that it will be rolling out a contact tracing app in the […]
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