Fri 01 May 2020: (REUTERS) The pandemic of COVID-19 is clearly still a global health emergency and is of particular concern as it spreads more widely in countries with weak health systems, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Three months after the WHO’s emergency committee first advised the WHO’s director general Tedros Adhanom […]
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Fri 01 May 2020: Turkey’s planned deployment of Russian S-400 missile defenses has been delayed by the COVID-19 outbreak but will ultimately go ahead, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s spokesman said on Thursday. “There has been a delay because of the coronavirus but it will move forward as it was planned,” Ibrahim Kalın told an online […]
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Fri 01 May 2020: According to a new analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) that the rate of coronavirus deaths among British black Africans in hospital is 3.7 times higher than the UK’s white population and this highlights “stark inequalities” between different ethnic groups. The IFS research also found that after stripping out the role […]
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Fri 01 May 2020: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tells world leaders to stop bickering, back global coronavirus pandemic response. The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed his disappointment with international leaders’ response to the coronavirus challenge gripping the world. He called for a global ceasefire and said nations needed to unite to fight the […]
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PRNewsfoto/King Salman Humanitarian Aid an Fri 01 May 2020: The agreement will benefit two million people The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed on Thursday an agreement with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees to provide supplies and medical equipment for UNRWA to fight the new coronavirus in […]
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Fri 01 May 2020: (REUTERS) Gilead Sciences Inc, maker of the closely-watched experimental coronavirus drug remdesivir, on Thursday said it will work with international partners to expand production of the potential COVID-19 treatment. The company said it still expects to have more than one million remdesivir treatment courses manufactured by December, “with plans to be […]
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Fri 01 May 2020: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Thursday announced he has tested positive for the coronavirus, as the country’s number of confirmed cases surged past 100,000 after its largest daily increase. In a televised meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mishustin said he has to “observe self-isolation” to protect his colleagues, suggesting […]
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Fri 01 May 2020: Hundreds of angry protesters, some carrying firearms, gathered at Michigan’s State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday to protest against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s request to extend the state of emergency to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The protests came as state legislators debated a measure refusing the governor’s request and voted to authorise […]
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Fri 01 May 2020: WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened new tariffs against Beijing after claiming there is evidence linking the coronavirus to a lab in China’s ground-zero city of Wuhan. Asked if he had seen anything giving him a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: Turkey’s state-run charity supplied medical aid Thursday to Uzbekistan to help fight the novel coronavirus. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) delivered medical equipment at a ceremony at Uzbekistan’s National Center for Innovative Medicine that included TIKA’s Tashkent Program Coordinator Cemalettin Tuney and Turkey’s Ambassador in Tashkent, Mehmet Sureyya Er […]
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