Sun 29 March 2020: The United Arab Emirates launched on Saturday a coronavirus drive-through testing site where people can get tested while remaining in their cars, according to photos posted by Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince on Twitter. “Today, I visited the mobile COVID-19 Test Center set up by SEHA as part of measures to contain […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife said Saturday that she has recovered from being ill from COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus. “I am feeling so much better,” Sophie Gregoire Trudeau said in a statement on social media. She said she received the clearance from her doctor and Ottawa Public […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: (AFP) US President Donald Trump decided late Saturday against imposing a broad two-week lockdown on New York and its neighbors after a strong pushback from local political leaders and warnings of the panic it could spark. “A quarantine will not be necessary,” Trump tweeted, some eight hours after he stunned the […]
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Sun 29 March 2020: (AFP) The biggest reputational risk Facebook and other social media companies had expected in 2020 was fake news surrounding the US presidential election. Be it foreign or domestic in origin, the misinformation threat seemed familiar, perhaps even manageable. The novel coronavirus, however, has opened up an entirely different problem: the life-endangering […]
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Sat 28 March 2020: When the first cases of coronavirus appeared in the Gaza Strip, three young artists wanted to contribute to curbing the spread of the pandemic. The three friends used their talent for drawing to encourage people, especially children, to wear medical masks by decorating the protective wear with attractive drawings In a […]
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Sat 28 March 2020: Police fired tear gas at a crowd of Kenyan ferry commuters as the country’s first day of a coronavirus curfew slid into chaos. Elsewhere, officers were captured in mobile phone footage whacking people with batons. Virus prevention measures have taken a violent turn in parts of Africa as countries impose lockdowns […]
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Sat 28 March 2020: Iraqi authorities have blocked 25 Iranian trucks and detained their drivers after entering the country illegally, Anadolu Agency reported on Friday. The High Judicial Council in Iraq announced in a statement that an Iraqi court decided to block the trucks loaded with vegetables and fruits, and to detain their drivers. Iran has not yet commented […]
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Sat 28 March 2020: The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are now 3,778 confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in 46 out of 54 African countries. The UN’s health agency disclosed this in its regional official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Saturday. The agency said: “There are 3,778 confirmed […]
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Sat 28 March 2020: Religious leader dies of COVID-19 after preaching in over dozen villages in Punjab state, prompting strict restrictions. At least 15,000 people who may have caught the new coronavirus from a Sikh religious leader are under strict quarantine in northern India after the man died of COVID-19. The 70-year-old guru, Baldev Singh, had returned from […]
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Sat 28 March 2020: Microsoft says it will no longer invest in third-party facial recognition companies following a controversy around its funding of Israeli startup AnyVision, which critics and human rights activists say powered a surveillance program in the West Bank following an NBC News report about the company’s relationship with the Israeli government. Microsoft announced on […]
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