Sat 07 March 2020: (REUTERS) As the new coronavirus spreads and worldwide deaths linked to it top 3,400, global alarm is growing and has caused everything from consumer runs on face masks to mass school closures. Yet while few would deny the outbreak’s official status as an international health emergency, in the ranking of top […]
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Sat 07 March 2020: Iranian MP Fatema Rahbar died due to coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. There were mixed reports on her condition Friday. Tasnim news agency said Rahbar was “connected to an oxygen tank and doctors expressed concern about her condition.” The semi-official ISNA news agency reported that she was […]
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Sat 07 March 2020: (AFP) China’s exports plummeted in the first two months of this year on the back of a coronavirus epidemic that forced businesses to suspend operations, disrupting the world’s supply chains. Exports fell 17.2 percent, the biggest drop since February 2019 during the trade war with the United States, and imports dropped […]
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Sat 07 March 2020: A total of 163 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the United Kingdom, rising from 115, medical authorities said Friday. The number of people who have died from the virus stands at one, the health ministry and the Public Health England (PHE) agency said. Some British media reported earlier on […]
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Sat 07 March 2020: Schools, businesses and places of worship in many countries were closed due to rising coronavirus fears as more than 100,000 people in 87 countries around the world have been infected with the virus The steady spread of the coronavirus has disrupted basic aspects of daily life globally while authorities rushed to […]
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Iranian lawmakers, from left, Masoumeh Aghapour Alishahi, Mahmoud Sadeghi and Mojtaba Zolnour posted social media videos of themselves saying they have the coronavirus. Sat 07 March 2020: Reports of the coronavirus infecting members of Iran’s establishment have angered Iranians, with some dismissing the infections as fake, and others accusing elites of monopolizing access to medical […]
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Sat 07 March 2020 King Salman bin Abdulaziz issued a royal order to allow the opening of the Mataf, the area for circumambulation around Islam’s holiest site the Kaaba, for non-Umrah worshipers starting from the dawn of Saturday, state news agency SPA reported citing the General President of the Grand Mosque and Prophet’s Mosque Affairs […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: Qatar’s ministry of health reported on Friday three new coronavirus cases in individuals who had returned from Iran recently, bringing the total number of infections detected in the country to 11. The ministry said the three individuals were a family, two Qatari citizens and another from a different nationality. “The three […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: All sports events were cancelled in Iran due to spread of new coronavirus known as COVID-19 across country, local media reported on Thursday. All sports events have been called off in country until March 20 in accordance with the decision of the Iranian center working to prevent and combat coronavirus, Sports […]
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Fri 06 March 2020: Now that coronavirus has arrived in South Africa, with Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Senegal, Morocco, Nigeria and Tunisia also confirming cases of the disease – there are a lot of questions. Insurance companies South African insurance companies have started offering Covid-19-specific cover, and some are actively advertising this as a benefit to […]
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