Category: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Wed 08 April 2020: President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut US funding to the World Health Organization, accusing it of bias toward China during the coronavirus pandemic. Trump told reporters he was “going to put a very powerful hold on” funding to WHO, the UN body whose biggest funding source is the United […]

Wed 08 April 2020: (AFP) The new coronavirus isn’t biased about who it infects — so why does data emerging from some states suggest that African Americans are bearing the brunt of the pandemic in the US? Experts say blacks are disproportionately impacted by underlying health conditions linked to poverty, face discrimination in medical care, […]

Tue 07 April 2020: Saudi Arabia’s health minister said the Kingdom’s coronavirus cases could reach between 10,000 to 200,000 within weeks based on four different studies conducted by Saudi and foreign experts, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Tuesday. Dr. Tawfig al-Rabiah said the results indicate a constant increase in the numbers rather […]

Tue 07 April 2020: In the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was diagnosed with coronavirus late last month, was moved to intensive care in a London hospital after his condition worsened on Monday evening. Foreign secretary Dominic Raab will be leading the UK government response to the coronavirus while Johnson is in hospital.  Foreign […]

Tue 07 April 2020: (REUTERS) Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp tightened message forwarding limits on Tuesday, restricting users to sharing forwarded content one chat at a time after a jump in messages touting bogus medical advice since the start of the coronavirus crisis. The pandemic, which has killed more than 70,000 people worldwide, has been accompanied by […]

Tue 07 April 2020: Bosniaks in Serbia’s southwest Sandzak region have penned a letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, requesting assistance from Turkey in a bid to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic. In the letter written by the Bosniak National Council (BNV), Serbia’s largest Muslim minority made an appeal for medical equipment and a team […]

Tue 07 April 2020: Infections worldwide nearing 1.4M mark, while nearly 290,000 people have recovered from COVID-19 infection The number of coronavirus-related deaths around the world passed a sobering new milestone with 75,945 total fatalities on Tuesday, according to data by the U.S.’ Johns Hopkins University. After emerging in Wuhan, China last December, the COVID-19 […]