Thu 26 March 2020: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday charged the country’s intelligence services with the task of ”acquiring medical equipment abroad”, as the country faces an uphill battle against a rising surge in coronavirus cases. There are now only 50 unused ventilators in Israel for use in clinical emergencies, according to a health ministry […]
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Thu 26 March 2020: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that systematic testing for COVID-19 has started in Syria’s last opposition stronghold, the northwestern province of Idlib. Testing began “after a shipment of 300 tests reached a member of the World Health Organization’s health cluster. The first four tests came back negative,” the […]
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Thu 26 March 2020: China said Thursday no new local cases of coronavirus were reported in the country. In its daily briefing, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said six more people died of the virus and 67 new cases were confirmed, but all of them were imported. “Hubei reported no new cases of confirmed infection, […]
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Thu 26 March 2020: (REUTERS) South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has tested negative for coronavirus, the presidency said in a statement on Thursday. “The president submitted for testing as a precautionary measure upon the advice of physicians on Tuesday 24th March 2020 and received his results last night,” the statement said, adding he had held […]
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Thu 26 March 2020: There is currently no need to impose lockdown in Moscow and other Russian cities due to the coronavirus, the World Health Organization’s representative in Russia Melita Vujnovic told the Future of Russia. National Projects web portal operated by TASS. “If Moscow and the entire Russia prove to be capable of self-discipline, […]
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Thu 26 March 2020: Instagram said Tuesday it was ramping up efforts to promote reliable content about the coronavirus pandemic and stop the spread of misinformation on the image-centric social network. The move by the Facebook-owned service with more than one billion users worldwide comes amid a scramble by social networks to deliver verified information […]
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Thu 26 March 2020: Nine doctors have died in the Philippines from the coronavirus, the country’s top medical association said, as hospitals were overwhelmed and medics complained about a lack of protection on the front lines. The Philippine Medical Association said that health workers were not getting enough protection. “If it were up to me, […]
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FILE PHOTO: Thu 26 March 2020: A 34-year old Italian nurse who was working on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis at a hospital in Lombardy, the worst-affected region of Italy, committed suicide after testing positive for coronavirus. Daniela Trezzi, who worked in the intensive care unit of the San Gerardo Hospital in the city […]
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Thu 26 March 2020: (Bloomberg) Governments should stop wasting precious time needed to fight the coronavirus after squandering an opportunity to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization’s head said. “We squandered the first window of opportunity,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The time to act was actually more than a month ago […]
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Thu 26 March 2020: (AFP) The sewage-soaked alleys and cramped canvas and bamboo shacks that house one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are a horrifying scene for experts watching the coronavirus pandemic creep closer. The wretched conditions in the camps, where most of the stateless Muslims arrived in 2017 to escape a Myanmar military clampdown […]
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