Thu 30 April 2020: Global coronavirus fatalities exceeded the 230,000 mark Thursday, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university’s data counted 230,615 deaths, while the numbers of cases and recoveries stand at 3,247,648 and 1,004,483, respectively. The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the highest numbers of infections […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: Russia reported 7,099 new cases of the coronavirus on Thursday — the country’s biggest single-day jump so far. That brings the national total to 106,498 cases and 1,073 related deaths, according to the country’s coronavirus response headquarters. This doesn’t reflect the number of active cases; of that total figure, 11,619 patients have recovered. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin yesterday […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: Qatar has started manufacturing artificial respiratory machines in order to cover the requirements of the health sector domestically and to export internationally, in light of the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani visited the Barzan Holding Company, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Defense, and […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: The warning came as the UN body noted that while the spread of the novel coronavirus seemed to be “plateauing in western Europe, the gradient of the epi-curve steepens as we look east”. “Immunization services are essential. If they have been interrupted, catch-up measures must be taken as quickly as possible,” […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: The number of coronavirus infections in Africa has reached 36,460, with 1,850 new infections recorded in the last 24 hours, while 1,581 people died from the virus-related causes across the continent, the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa branch said Thursday. South Africa accounts for the biggest number of infections (5,350) and […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: A Turkish military cargo plane carrying the second batch of medical supplies departed for the US on Thursday to deliver aid to its NATO ally battling the coronavirus outbreak. “Second part of the medical aid supplies, prepared at the directions of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the aim to help combat […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: Turkey has so far delivered aid to at least 57 countries around the globe, while fighting the virus domestically with weekend lockdowns, quarantines and social isolation. Turkey’s Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın stated that the plane to be sent to the West Bank and Gaza was prepared upon the instructions of Turkish […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: Twitter will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID-19, which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinformation, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Twitter said that this access […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: COVID-19 is expected to cause global energy emissions to fall a record eight percent this year due to an unprecedented drop in demand for coal, oil and gas, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. IEA executive director Fatih Birol said the coronavirus crisis marked a watershed moment for the global energy […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: COVID-19 patients who took the antiviral remdesivir recovered about 30 percent faster than those on a placebo, the results of a major clinical trial showed Wednesday, as the top US epidemiologist hailed the drug’s “clear-cut” benefit. The finding represents the first time any medication has been shown to improve outcomes against […]
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