Fri 20 March 2020: (AFP) The Olympic flame arrived in Japan to a scaled-down welcoming ceremony Friday as doubts grew over whether the Tokyo Games will go ahead on schedule with the coronavirus pandemic causing chaos around the world. As the flame, enclosed in a special lantern, landed on a charter flight, a Japanese Olympic […]
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Fri 20 March 2020: The economic and labour crisis created by the new coronavirus pandemic could increase global unemployment by almost 25 million, according to a new report published yesterday by the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO). Rising unemployment mean large income losses for workers, ILO warned in the report showing workers stand to lose […]
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Thu 19 March 2020: African countries to close their borders on Thursday as the coronavirus’ local spread threatened to turn the continent of 1.3 billion people into an alarming new front for the pandemic. (AP) More African countries closed their borders on Thursday as the coronavirus’ local spread threatened to turn the continent of 1.3 […]
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Thu 19 March 2020: Turkey has sent 500,000 coronavirus testing kits to the United States, the country’s health minister said Thursday. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca made the remarks in Turkey’s parliament, Reuters reported, adding that Ankara wanted to “rapidly” ramp up its own testing within the country. Turkey has carried out more than 10,000 tests, Koca said. Meanwhile, coronavirus cases have surged past […]
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Thu 19 March 2020: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, said Thursday that Saudi Arabia has taken all precautionary measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak, but spoke of a “more difficult” phase on a global level. The Kingdom “continues to take all precautionary measures to confront this pandemic […]
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Thu 19 March 2020: Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, 9,800 people are currently under quarantine in Turkey, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters in parliament, Soylu said the number of quarantined people, including pilgrims who returned from their Umrah visit in Saudi Arabia, is 9,800 across the country. Umrah is the […]
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Thu 19 March 2020: Cleaning surfaces has recently become even more important to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus, which experts say can be spread via surfaces. But what is the best way to clean a home to keep individuals and families safe, and how long can the virus last on surfaces? “High-touch surfaces,” […]
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Saudi Arabia canceled “Jeddah Season”, a weeks-long entertainment and cultural festival in the Red Sea port city, as part of measures to curb the coronavirus outbreak, state television reported on Thursday. International super stars including 50 Cent, Tyga, Amr Diab, DJ Marshmello, and South Korean pop bands Super Junior and Stray Kids were some of […]
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Thu 19 March 2020: 106 people have recovered from illness across US, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University The death toll from the novel coronavirus in the U.S. has hit 150, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University in Maryland on Thursday. The number of confirmed cases has swelled to over 9,400, […]
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In this March 18, 2020 photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, people applaud as departing medical workers enter Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei Province. (Ke Hao/Xinhua via AP) Thu 19 March 2020: China’s Hubei province has highest number of recovered people, while 4,025 healed in Italy, current epicenter of […]
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