Thu 19 March 2020: A BJP activist has been arrested for organising a cow urine consumption event here, claiming that it will protect people from coronavirus or cure those already infected, leading to a civic volunteer falling ill after drinking it, police said on Wednesday. He was arrested late Tuesday night following a complaint filed […]
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Thu 19 March 2020: A massive coronavirus prayer session with tens of thousands of devotees sparked an outcry in Bangladesh Wednesday as the South Asian nation reported its first death from the global pandemic. Local police chief Tota Miah said some 10,000 Muslims gathered in an open field in Raipur town in southern Bangladesh to […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: More than 850 million young people, or nearly half the world’s student population, are barred from their school and university grounds because of the coronavirus pandemic, UNESCO said Wednesday. Calling it an “unprecedented challenge” for education, UNESCO said schools had been closed in 102 countries, with partial closures in 11 more […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: Global death toll from coronavirus over 8,000, according to statistics website compiling new case numbers More than 200,000 people worldwide have been infected by the novel coronavirus, according to a statistics website that compiles new case numbers. The global number of the total confirmed coronavirus cases hit 200,100, according to Worldometer […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: (Reuters) WASHINGTON/LONDON – The world’s richest nations prepared more costly measures on Tuesday to combat the global fallout of the coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands of people, triggered social restrictions unseen since World War Two and sent economies spinning toward recession. With the highly contagious respiratory disease that originated […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: The number of service members who had tested positive for coronavirus increased to 49, compared to the 36 a day earlier, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. In a statement, the Pentagon said that in addition to the service members, 14 civilian employees, 19 dependents and 7 contractors had tested positive as […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: Iran reported its single biggest jump in deaths from the new coronavirus, saying Wednesday another 147 had died in a nearly 15 percent spike that raises the death toll to 1,135 people nationwide. The rise in deaths comes as the number of infections continues to grow each day, with some 17,361 […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: Israeli prison administration are being accused of not taking the proper measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and treat those who may become sick, and are instead using the disease to continue their abuse of Palestinian prisoners, Wafa news agency reported. Fears of a coronavirus outbreak in prisons holding Palestinian detainees […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: Confirmed coronavirus cases in Israel have jumped by 40 percent to 427 in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, predicting a steeper rise as mass-testing is implemented, reports Reuters. Having urged Israelis to stay home and approved cyber-monitoring of their movements to reduce infection risks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: The Lebanese government has declared the state of general mobilization, as coronavirus cases jump to over 120. Palestinian and Syrian refugees, often living in difficult and unsanitary conditions, with little access to healthcare, remain the weakest link as the infection progresses in Lebanon. The Lebanese government proclaimed on Sunday a state of […]
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