Fri 08 May 2020: (REUTERS) South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday some low-risk prisoners would be granted parole to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in correctional facilities. Around 19,000 people would be freed by the move, taken in response to a U.N. call on all countries to reduce prison populations so […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a total of $18 billion so far to help dozens of countries bear the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, a spokesperson said on Thursday. “Since roughly the beginning of April until May 6th, yesterday, we have approved financing for 50 countries under these emergency […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: The coronavirus is “widely spreading” in Yemen while cases are not being detected by the official authorities, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned yesterday. “The coronavirus in Yemen could be contained if the confirmed cases were properly looked at, tested and treated,” the executive director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, Michael Ryan disclosed. “WHO […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: (REUTERS) South African actress Charlize Theron on Thursday said more than 50 female celebrities, from actress Reese Witherspoon to football player Megan Rapinoe, had joined her campaign to fight violence against women during the global coronavirus lockdowns. The #TogetherForHer initiative launched in April by the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project with […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: The popular video-sharing app TikTok has grown at record rates during the coronavirus pandemic, recording an all-time high number of downloads of 200 million for the first quarter of 2020, according to data gathered by Learnbonds.com. While the coronavirus pandemic has kept consumers at home, many have turned to their mobile […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the world faces “mega-famines” if enough funds are not pledged to combat the ripple effects of coronavirus pandemic on the world’s most fragile countries, which are already grappling with food insecurity. “What we are facing now is a double pandemic … […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: The novel coronavirus could kill between 83,000 and 190,000 people in Africa in the first year and infect between 29 million and 44 million in the first year if containment measures fail, the WHO has warned. The projections are contained in a new WHO Africa study based on assumptions that containment […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that his government will be begin to lift the nationwide coronavirus lockdown starting on Saturday. “We have decided to lift the lockdown from Saturday in phases,” Khan said, addressing the nation. “We are doing this because the people of our country are suffering economically.” Khan […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: Chinese researchers who tested the sperm of men infected with Covid-19 found a minority had the new coronavirus in their semen, opening up a small chance the disease could be sexually transmitted, scientists have said. COVID-19 is spread through respiratory droplets or contact and the virus has also been detected in […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: News of the early success of vaccine candidates — from Israel and Italy — on Wednesday made it to headlines across the globe. The defence ministry of Israel announced a breakthrough in the development of an antibody while biotech firm Takis in Italy said vaccine tests conducted at Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for […]
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