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People wearing masks in Wuhan, China. April 14, 2020. © Reuters / Aly Song China’s Foreign Ministry has said that claims about the novel coronavirus originating in a lab are not based on science, citing the WHO as it rebuked the latest news story on Covid-19 ‘patient zero.’ “I want to remind you that the […]

file photo Mogadisho/Somalia:At least six health workers including doctors in Somalia have contracted coronavirus, officials said Thursday. According to the country’s Health Ministry, the officials contracted the virus from a patient in the capital Mogadishu. Dr Ibraahim Guled, the secretary general of Somali Medical Association, is among the infected. Somalia confirmed its first COVID-19 case […]

A Covid-19 patient in Barcelona’s Hospital Clinic.ALBERT GARCIA  Spain saw 551 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, according to figures supplied on Thursday morning by the Spanish Health Ministry. This was a slight increase on yesterday’s figure, which came in at 523. So far during the coronavirus epidemic in Spain, there have been a total of […]

Libyan Army forces attend “Operation Peace Storm” of the Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) against the forces of warlord Khalifa Haftar in Tripoli, Libya on 27 March 2020. [Amru Salahuddien – Anadolu Agency] The internationally-recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) on Monday succeeded in liberating six cities and two strategic areas from the forces of […]

  German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz awaits the start of the video conference of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in his ministry in Berlin, Germany, April 15, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  Finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies agreed on Wednesday to suspend debt service payments for the world’s poorest countries […]

President Donald Trump points to a question as he speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington. –   Copyright  AP Photo/Alex Brandon Governments and health experts worldwide have reacted with alarm after President Donald Trump said he was halting the sizable funding the United States sends to […]

 NEW YORK (WABC) — 752 lives were lost on Tuesday and the level of deaths in the state remains at a flat, yet devastating, level according to Governor Andrew Cuomo. “I say, personal opinion, it’s over when we have a vaccine, when people can say I’m 100% safe and I don’t have to worry,” Cuomo […]

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus pandemic, Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 28, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 special envoy on Wednesday urged critics to focus first on defeating the virus, after the United States halted funding over the […]

Mumbai’s Bandra stationed witnessed a large crowd on Tuesday as migrant workers hoping to get back home gathered there (India Today photo) Mumbai’s Bandra West railway station was flooded with migrant labourers who were hoping to get back home as they expected the lockdown to end on Tuesday. HIGHLIGHTS Mumbai’s Bandra West station witnessed a […]

  Egyptian security forces killed seven terrorists in a raid on a hideout in El-Amiriya neighbourhood in eastern Cairo on Tuesday evening. The cell was planning to carry out terrorist operations during the Easter holiday, according to a statement by the interior ministry on Tuesday. “The National Security Agency received information about a terrorist cell […]