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In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Global Refugee Forum at the European headquarters of the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. (Keystone via AP)  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and […]

Photo taken on April 18, 2020 shows a taped-off beach in Cannes, France. A further 642 people had died of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours in France, raising the country’s death toll to 19,323, official data showed on Saturday. (Photo by Serge Haouzi/Xinhua) Mounting scientific evidence suggesting COVID-19 may have surfaced earlier than reported […]

Business in Eastleigh, Nairobi, on May 6, 2020, continues as usual despite coronavirus outbreak. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NATION MEDIA GROUP A culture of socialisation and communal gatherings during the Ramadhan period have conspired to turn two areas in Nairobi and Mombasa into coronavirus hotspots. On Wednesday, the government locked down Eastleigh in Nairobi […]

Liu had been working on the novel coronavirus when he was shot dead in what police said was a dispute over an ‘intimate partner’ Johannes EISELE AFP/File An ethnic Chinese scientist working on the novel coronavirus in the United States has been shot dead in what police said was a murder-suicide over an “intimate partner”. Bing […]

A nurse practitioner talks to a patient and holds her hand while a doctor administers an IV at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago.   –   Copyright  Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP At least 90,000 healthcare workers have been infected by COVID-19 and more than 260 nurses have lost their lives to the pandemic, the International Council of Nurses […]

  A Turkish military cargo plane with medical supplies and protective equipment to combat COVID-19 in the US unloads at Andrews Air Force Base, in Maryland, April 28, 2020. (AFP)  Some two-thirds of the world have requested medical supplies from Turkey to fight the coronavirus, and nearly half of these requests were met, said Turkey’s […]

Researchers have been tracking changes to the ‘spike’ of the virus. Source: We Are Covert Daily US Times: Researchers in the UK and US have identified hundreds of mutations to coronavirus which causes the disease Covid-19, but none has yet established what this will mean for how effective a vaccine might be or for virus spread […]

Madrid firefighters and healthcare workers on Tuesday in Coslada.CHEMA MOYA / EFE Spanish health authorities announced on Wednesday that overnight coronavirus-related fatalities had come in at 244, a rise from the 185 recorded on Tuesday. This new figure breaks a three-day run of fewer than 200 daily deaths, and brings total fatalities since the beginning of the […]

Illustration: © Pixabay / enriquelopezgarre Scientists have detected an antibody that blocks the coronavirus from entering cells, providing a much-needed shield for severely ill patients. While not a cure or vaccine, it is still a significant development. “This is clearly a breakthrough that shows that we are on the right track for the development of […]

A volunteer from Boots chemist conducts a test at a coronavirus test site in Poole (Picture: Reuters) Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) confirmed more than 32,000 people in the UK have died with suspected Covid-19, which is more than Italy, previously Europe’s worst hit country. There were 29,710 Covid-19 deaths in England […]