Mon 13 April 2020: More than 22,000 people in the U.S. have died from the novel coronavirus, according to data released Sunday by Johns Hopkins University. The university study counts 22,020 fatalities and 555,313 confirmed infections while 32,988 people have recovered from the disease. The U.S. is the country with the highest number of both […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: Palestine in an ‘unprecedented’ economic crisis, says head of Gaza’s National Committee for Breaking the Siege Palestine is struggling with an “unprecedented” economic crisis amid the novel coronavirus outbreak and Israeli occupation, the head of Gaza’s National Committee for Breaking the Siege said Sunday. “The Israeli occupation, siege and measures against […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: With few doctors and scarce equipment, inadequate funding, insufficient training of healthcare workers and inefficient transmission of data on coronavirus cases, many African countries fear they are defenseless against the inevitable spread of the deadly pandemic. Most worrisome is the lack of ventilators. A daunting shortage of ventilators has been one […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: Iran has prepared 10,000 graves for coronavirus victims in the capital Tehran, the deputy director of Tehran’s municipal urban services Mojtaba Yazdani said on Sunday. Authorities have allocated a new section in Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, the country’s largest cemetery, to coronavirus victims, Yazdani said, adding that 10,000 graves have so […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: Pakistan has appealed to international stakeholders for urgent debt relief for developing countries so they can deal more effectively with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the government said on Sunday. Pakistan has recorded 5,183 cases of the virus, with 88 deaths. The country’s already-struggling economy has been hit hard […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: Ecuador said police have removed almost 800 bodies in recent weeks from homes in Guayaquil, the epicenter of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, after the disease overwhelmed emergency services, hospitals and funeral parlours. Mortuary workers in the Pacific port city have been unable to cope with a backlog, with residents posting videos […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: (AFP) Under strong international pressure, China on Sunday vowed to improve the treatment of Africans in the southern city of Guangzhou following accusations of discrimination linked to the coronavirus pandemic, and said it rejected all “racist and discriminatory” remarks. Africans in the industrial centre of 15 million say they have become […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: (AFP) The United States may be ready to start gradually reopening next month, the government’s top infectious diseases expert said Sunday, as signs grew that the coronavirus pandemic was peaking. President Donald Trump had earlier wanted the world’s largest economy to be “raring to go” by Easter Sunday, but most of […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: (AFP) Top oil-producing countries agreed on “historic” output cuts to prop up prices hammered by the coronavirus crisis and a Russia-Saudi price war, sending crude prices soaring on Monday. The US benchmark WTI climbed 7.7 percent to $24.52 a barrel in early Asian trade while Brent was up 5.0 percent at […]
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Sun 12 April 2020: Around 40 members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) militia fighting alongside Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria have been taken to hospital on suspicion of having contracted the coronavirus, according to local monitoring site Eye of the Euphrates. Some 25 militia fighters of Iranian and Afghan nationality stationed in the city of Al Bukamal […]
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