Tue 28 April 2020: While more than 3M people infected by virus, Johns Hopkins counts nearly 212,000 deaths The global coronavirus recoveries exceeded the 900,000 mark on Tuesday, according to a running tally by the US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university’s data showed a total of 902,129 people won their battle against the pandemic. The […]
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Tue 28 April 2020: (REUTERS) Hunger and poverty are set to spike in Latin America and the Caribbean as the impact of the novel coronavirus ravages the region´s economies and disrupts supply chains, according to a report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Most countries across Latin America have been forced to […]
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Tue 28 April 2020: (REUTERS) The World Health Organization (WHO) appealed for more flight capacity on Tuesday to step up shipments of diagnostic tests and protective equipment to areas where COVID-19 is spreading, especially Latin America. Paul Molinaro, chief of WHO operations support and logistics, said global vaccine shipments were disrupted in April and if […]
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Tue 28 April 2020: New waves of protest are expected to hit the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region when lockdowns are lifted, and the global coronavirus pandemic is brought under control. For many regimes in the region the spread of COVID-19 has been somewhat of a blessing in disguise. Protests were stopped in Iraq, Algeria and […]
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Tue 28 April 2020: Standing orders for donations to British charity Interpal, which has been providing humanitarian and development aid to Palestinians since 1994, have been cancelled by HSBC Bank. Donors have been instructed that their standing order payments to the London-based charity will no longer be processed. HSBC has provided no explanation for cancelling […]
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Tue 28 April 2020: Tablighi Jamaat chief, Maulana Saad Kandhavli, who was booked for culpable homicide after thousands of attendees of the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi’s Nizamuddin tested positive for COVID-19, appealed to COVID-19 survivors from the Muslim community to donate blood plasma for the treatment of other patients. Courtesy: The Wire Think your […]
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Tue 28 April 2020: Abdulrahman Al-Sudais, the president of the General Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques, on Monday joined workers at the Grand Mosque in Makkah as they washed and sterilized the Kaaba and Maqam Ibrahim before the call to night prayer. “Ozone technology” is based on the idea of producing ozone by using […]
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Tue 28 April 2020: The US President Donald Trump has pushed his military and national security advisers in recent days to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan amid concerns about a major coronavirus outbreak in the war-torn country, according to two current and one former senior U.S. officials. National security officials told NBC that […]
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Tue 28 April 2020: Around the world the pandemic has killed more than 209,000 people and infected more than three million, with the highest death toll — over 55,000 — in the United States, according to an AFP tally. Well over half of all deaths are in Europe, with the toll hitting 126,233 on the […]
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Tue 28 April 2020: US President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that he may seek damages from China over the coronavirus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan and spread around the world. “We are not happy with China,” Trump said at a White House briefing. “We are not happy with that whole […]
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