Wed 15 April 2020: The number of global coronavirus cases surpassed 2 million on Wednesday, according to a running tally by U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University. The data showed the number of deaths reached 128,071, while the number of people who recovered stands at 500,996. The U.S. remains the country with the most infections — over […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: Houthi militants will shoot and kill anyone diagnosed with the COVID-19 coronavirus to stop the spread of the virus in Yemen, according to a video showing the Iranian-backed fighters making the statements. “Our best method is to kill in the interest of the rest,” one militant can be heard saying while […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: As Idlib braces for virus outbreak, only one machine to test samples available in area with over three million people. The last opposition-held stronghold in Syria is bracing for its fight against the coronavirus pandemic with just one machine equipped to run a test to detect the rapidly spreading pathogen. Mohamad […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: Those under quarantine include Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Sudan Zimbabwe has placed more than 500 of its citizens returning from the U.K., South Africa and Botswana under a mandatory 21-day quarantine at the government’s cost. Those under quarantine in Harare include Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Sudan Emmanuel Gumbo, who arrived via Ethiopian Airlines […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: In countries like India and Israel Muslims are being scapegoated for the spread of Covid-19. When the Black Plague ravaged Europe in the middle of the 14th Century, killing roughly 50 percent of those infected and one-third of the continent’s population at the time, rumours spread that Jewish people were poisoning […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: Foreign Ministry warns Kenyans are among many Africans hit by wave of racial attacks in China amid pandemic Kenya rebuked China on Tuesday over coronavirus-related discrimination against its citizens in Guangzhou province while noting that no Kenyans there had died from COVID-19. “The reality is that this has been a very […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: Nursing home deaths keep climbing in Western countries with almost half of the COVID-19 fatalities in Europe occurring in care homes, data reveals As the global death toll from the novel coronavirus crossed the 120,000 mark on Tuesday, nursing and care homes across Europe and the United States gained much more […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has been deemed an “essential business” in Florida, the mayor of Orange County said on Monday, allowing the company to resume live tapings of its shows in the state during the coronavirus outbreak. A statewide stay-at-home order went into effect earlier this month in a bid to […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: (AP) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the world is facing “a dangerous epidemic of misinformation” about COVID-19 and announced a UN campaign to flood the internet with facts and science to counter what he called “a poison” that is putting lives at risk. The UN chief decried what he […]
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Wed 15 April 2020: (AFP) South African police on Tuesday fired rubber bullets and teargas in clashes with Cape Town township residents protesting over access to food aid during a coronavirus lockdown. Hundreds of angry people fought running battles with the police, hurling rocks and setting up barricades on the streets with burning tyres in […]
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