Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

 Despite grappling with deadly insurgencies, the sixth highest poverty rate in the world and massive internal displacement, Somalia sent 20 of its medical experts to Italy in an attempt to boost the European country’s fight against the coronavirus, which has wreaked havoc on its healthcare system, claiming thousands of lives. A former colonial power that […]

France’s drug agency warned self-medicating could induce a heart attack.   –   Copyright  BERTRAND GUAY/AFP or licensors   A French medicine watchdog has warned of the dangerous side effects of malaria and HIV drugs being tested against the novel coronavirus after three people’s deaths were possibly linked to self-medication. Around 30 patients with symptoms of COVID-19 had reported serious […]

In the normally bustling Mar Mikhael neighborhood of Beirut, a fruit seller keeps his doors open while a butcher prepares to shut down his shop. (Finbar Anderson) Coronavirus lockdowns hit poor people working in the informal economy hardest, but they are also the least likely to receive aid or healthcare from the government or heed […]

In this photo taken on April 1, 2020, aid workers from the Spanish NGO Open Arms carry out coronavirus detection tests on the elderly at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain. (SANTI PALACIOS / AP) GENEVA / PARIS / BRUSSELS / MEXICO CITY / LUSAKA / WASHINGTON / MONTEVIDEO / LONDON / BERLIN / MOSCOW […]

A healthcare worker wearing a protective face mask and suit transports a patient by an ambulance to the emergency unit at 12 de Octubre hospital amid the coronavirus outbreak in Madrid [Sergio Perez/Reuters] A record 950 people have died from coronavirus in Spain in the space of 24 hours, lifting the country’s death toll to […]

File photo of a blood donation in Los Angeles, California taken March 24, 2020. REUTERS – LUCY NICHOLSON As she emerges from quarantine, recovered COVID-19 patient Diana Berrent is eager to join the battle against the pandemic and donate precious antibodies that researchers hope might help others.  In mid-March, the New Yorker woke up with a […]

A ventilator is seen at the New York City Emergency Management Warehouse, where 400 ventilators arrived and before being shipped out for distribution, due to concerns over the rapid spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, March 24, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in […]

For the sixth day in a row, the number of coronavirus deaths in a 24-hour period in Spain was above 800, taking the total number of fatalities from the Covid-19 disease in excess of 10,000. That’s according to official figures supplied by the Health Ministry at midday Thursday. Spain set another new grim record today, with 950 […]

There are a total of 83,049 coronavirus patients in Italy, with an increase compared to yesterday of 2,477 people. On Wednesday the number of cases increased by 2,937. The total number of infected people – including victims and cured – is 115,242. 18,278 people recovered in Italy after contracting the coronavirus, 1,431 more than yesterday. […]

Experts say North Korea is particularly vulnerable to the virus because of its weak medical system [File: KCNA/Reuters] North Korea remains totally free of coronavirus, a senior health official insisted, despite mounting scepticism overseas as confirmed global infections approach one million. The already isolated, nuclear-armed country quickly shut down its borders and imposed strict containment measures in January […]