Thu 05 March 2020: South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that the coronavirus will turn into a “national crisis” and its impact will be “huge”. His warning came after the first case of the coronavirus was detected in South Africa. The patient is a 38-year-old man who visited Italy with his wife. This brings […]
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Thu 05 March 2020: The Grand Mosque in Mecca will briefly close overnight and reopen an hour before Friday morning prayers as Saudi Arabian authorities sanitize the holy site to ensure the health and safety of pilgrims amid growing concerns over the coronavirus, authorities confirm. The temporary closure will begin an hour after the end […]
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Thu 05 March 2020: (AFP) Reusable cups are in vogue for reducing waste but are no longer welcome at Starbucks cafes over fears of the coronavirus, the coffee chain announced. “We are pausing the use of personal cups and ‘for here’ ware in our stores,” Rossann Williams, an executive vice president, said in a statement […]
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Thu 05 March 2020: (AFP) The church built on the Bethlehem site revered as the birthplace of Jesus is to temporarily close after a suspected outbreak of the coronavirus, a church official said Thursday. The Palestinian health ministry called for local churches, mosques and other institutions to close after a number of suspected cases at […]
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Thu 05 March 2020: Experts have invented a way for people to make face masks at home with affordable and accessible materials such as kitchen paper. They said the home-made coverings were proven to have achieved 90 per cent of the filtering function of surgical masks. Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! […]
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Thu 05 March 2020: When would you know you have the virus? The incubation period for a virus is the time between catching the virus and showing symptoms of disease. For the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, health officials estimate an incubation period of between one and 14 days. Most people start showing symptoms about five days after becoming infected, according […]
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Thu 05 March 2020: Dead bodies are “piling up” in Qom due to the coronavirus outbreak, an Iranian MP said on Wednesday, warning that if the city is not quarantined, Iran will end up having the most deaths in the world due to the virus. #BREAKING Over 1,300 #coronavirus deaths in #Iran, according to opposition […]
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Thu 05 March 2020: Iranian actor Danial Kheirikhah took to social media to show people how to thoroughly wash their hands as a precaution against the coronavirus. Only, he did it with tongue-in-cheek flare to the rhythm of a high tempo symphony. The World Health Organization advices people to thoroughly wash their hands with soap […]
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Thu 05 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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Thu 05 March 2020: First case in Bosnia found in middle-aged employee in Italy who returned to country last month, says health minister Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia on Thursday confirmed the first cases of the new coronavirus in the countries. One of the two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska’s Health Minister Alen […]
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