Mon 30 March 2020: A limited emergency-use authorization for two antimalarial drugs touted as game-changers by President Donald Trump has been issued by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat coronavirus patients. In a statement published Sunday, the US Department of Health and Human Services detailed recent donations of medicine to a national stockpile […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday ordered the “cessation of all movements” for two weeks in the largest city Lagos and capital Abuja to stop the spread of coronavirus. “All citizens in these areas are to stay in their homes” starting from 2200 GMT on Monday, Buhari announced in a televised […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: (AFP) China’s central bank on Monday cut an interest rate on loans to banks by the largest margin in five years and injected 50 billion yuan ($7 billion) into the financial system to help the world’s second-largest economy weather the coronavirus impact. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) said it launched […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: A shortage of ventilators in several major cities worsens as the US death count crosses 2,300. US deaths from coronavirus could reach 200,000 with millions of cases, the government’s top infectious disease expert warned on Sunday as New York, New Orleans, and other major cities said they would soon run out of crucial […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: A video of an alleged doctor in Saudi Arabia telling his son to maintain his distance upon his return home has gone viral on Twitter. The video, which shows the Saudi doctor’s son running up to greet him only to be told by his father to stay away over fears of transmitting coronavirus, has been watched […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: The John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre, which been used as an important source for tracking the novel coronavirus outbreak across the world, is under fire for removing Palestine from its dashboard. The world map, updated in real time, is published by John Hopkins University’s Centre for Systems and Engineering. However, the creator is being criticised […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: Saudi authorities have seized more than five million medical masks that were illegally stockpiled amid the coronavirus outbreak, state media reported on Sunday. The commerce ministry seized 1.17 million masks from a private store in Hail, northwest of the capital, after authorities Wednesday confiscated more than four million masks stored in […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: Bangladesh is yet to be equipped with the necessary health care facilities and support to deal with serious cases of the novel coronavirus despite having much time since the virus first emerged in the ground zero, China, says experts. Many have expressed concern that there is a serious lack of Intensive […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: The Palestinian government confirmed six new coronavirus cases in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. In a statement, a government spokesman said the new patients included five members of the same family in the town of Qatanna. The new infections bring the number of coronavirus cases in Palestine to 104, including […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: (AFP) Digital surveillance and smartphone technology may prove helpful in containing the coronavirus pandemic — but some activists fear this could mean lasting harm to privacy and digital rights. From China to Singapore to Israel, governments have ordered electronic monitoring of their citizens’ movements in an effort to limit contagion. In […]
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