Thu 09 April 2020: Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio thanked Qatar for its assistance in Rome’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, after Doha donated two field hospitals with 500 beds each, the Italian Embassy in Qatar has said. The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs @luigidimaio expresses gratitude to the State of #Qatar for donating […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: LIKE THE REST of the country, China’s far-western Xinjiang Province is slowly starting to open up after months of near-total lockdown meant to halt the spread of Covid-19. For the past six years, though, the Chinese government has focused on stopping the spread of what they view as a different kind of contagion in […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: 33 cases confirmed in disputed region, dozens arrested for defying lockdown The Indian-administered region of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday confirmed 33 COVID-19 cases, the highest in a single day so far in the region. With the new cases, the tally has risen to 158, government spokesman Rohit Kansal tweeted. Six […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: A 22-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death in Delhi’s Bawana after he was suspected of a conspiracy to spread COVID-19, police said on Wednesday, 8 April. The victim has been identified as Mehboob Ali, a resident of Harewali village in Bawana, they said. Police said Ali had gone to Bhopal […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: Turkey will monitor the mobile phones of those diagnosed with the new coronavirus to ensure they do not break quarantine, authorities said on Wednesday, marking the latest measure to stem an outbreak that has surged over the last month, Reuters reports. Turkey will start tracking citizens and send them a message and call […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: Global coronavirus infections have exceeded 1.5 million as governments worldwide struggle to get the pandemic under control. The Johns Hopkins study found that 1,500,830 people have been infected with the virus since it emerged in China four months ago, including 87,705 people who have died and 317,855 individuals who have fully […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: World Health Organization ‘got it wrong. In many ways, they were wrong,’ says US president of coronavirus response U.S. President Donald Trump accused the World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday of minimizing the threat of the novel coronavirus, saying the health body “got it wrong” on the spread of the pandemic. The […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: Up to 150 members of the Saudi royal family may have gotten infected with the coronavirus, six weeks after the kingdom reported its first case, the New York Times reported. As the severity of the outbreak across the kingdom escalates, as many as 500 beds are reportedly prepared for royals in […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: A California woman has been arrested after licking $1,800 worth of groceries and other items at a supermarket in the northern part of the state, police said Wednesday. Chris Fiore, spokesman for the South Lake Tahoe police department, near the border with Nevada, told AFP that officers were called to the […]
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Thu 09 April 2020: Google on Wednesday made its Stadia online video game service free to provide an escape for those hunkered down at home because of the coronavirus pandemic. Launched late last year, Stadia is crafted to let people access console-quality games as easily as they do email on an array of internet-linked devices. […]
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