Sat 14 March 2020: (AFP) For reasons unknown, children rarely have severe symptoms when infected by COVID-19 and may even be a bit less likely to get the disease in the first place, experts told AFP. But that doesn’t mean infants, toddlers and teens are not carriers for the new coronavirus, which jumped from animals […]
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Sat 14 March 2020: (AFP) US President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency as the World Health Organization named Europe the new epicenter of the coronavirus, with countries sealing borders, shutting schools and canceling events in a frenzied attempt to slow the ballooning pandemic. Wall Street stocks rallied Friday as financial markets endured […]
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Fri 13 March 2020: Scientists in Israel say they are expected to announce the development of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in the coming days. Israel’s Institute for Biological Research has made significant breakthroughs in understanding the virus and is on the edge of announcing a vaccine, medical sources told Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Scientists at the institute have also improved diagnostic […]
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Fri 13 March 2020: Years-long ordeal and tireless struggle for survival has made Master Abdur Rahim adept to deal with potential disasters. He, however, is worried about what lays in store for him and nearly a million other Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh amid the coronavirus pandemic. The virus, which has killed nearly 5,000 people in […]
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Fri 13 March 2020: Nasser Shabani, a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has died from coronavirus, the IRGC said on Friday. For more coronavirus news, visit our dedicated page. At least five other IRGC members have died from coronavirus, according to IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif. At least 13 Iranian regime figures […]
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Fri 13 March 2020: Sudan announced on Friday its first case of the novel coronavirus following the death of a 50-year-old man the night before. The Sudanese citizen had recently been in the UAE, the health ministry said in a statement, without providing further details. Dozens of COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the UAE. Sudan […]
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Fri 13 March 2020: India and Pakistan continued to receive new coronavirus cases, prompting authorities to take emergency measures to contain the further spread of the coronavirus. Declared coronavirus an epidemic, India on Thursday closed all schools, colleges and cinema theaters until March 31. Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a travel ban on his Cabinet […]
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FILE PHOTO: Funeral prayers for Morsi in Turkey. Fri 13 March 2020: Highest religious council says Muslims at high-risk of COVID-19 can perform noon prayers at home instead of Friday prayer Instead of attending weekly collective mosque prayers, Muslims can pray at home, Turkey’s highest religious body said on Friday amid heightened concerns that such […]
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Fri 13 March 2020: A senior cabinet member in Australia’s government who said Friday he is infected with the new coronavirus was pictured last week standing next to Ivanka Trump, Attorney General William Barr and other White House officials. Peter Dutton, who is Australia’s minister for home affairs, released a statement saying he has been diagnosed with the virus – […]
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Fri 13 March 2020: A local cleric from the Iranian city of Qom has suggested a novel cure for the new coronavirus – the pre-bedtime rectal administration of violet leaf oil. Users on Twitter describe how the Ayatollah Tabrizian has publicly denounced Western medicine as “un-Islamic”. In a post to over 120,000 followers on the social messaging service Telegram, Tabrizian, a […]
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