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Coronavirus: UK records 917 new coronavirus deaths – including an 11-year-old The number of coronavirus deaths across the UK continues to climb and looks likely to pass the 10,000 mark on Easter Sunday.

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Image:There are almost 80,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK The UK has recorded 917 new coronavirus deaths – including an 11-year-old. This brings the total number of UK deaths to 9,875, according to the Department of Health, making it likely that the toll will pass 10,000 on Easter Sunday. The rise in cases announced […]

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Amidst the adversity the world finds itself in, a row has erupted after the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus accused the US President and Taiwan’s leaders of spearheading personal attacks on him

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Amidst the adversity the world finds itself in, a row has erupted after the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus accused the US President and Taiwan’s leaders of spearheading personal attacks on him

It can be recalled that in a recent press briefing held by the President of the US and its coronavirus taskforce, in a bid to shift the blame for what has been a disastrous response to the pandemic, Donald Trump accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of being ‘China-centric,’ and pointed out its advise to […]

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Putin discusses cutting oil output with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince The Kremlin press service said that the sides also agreed to continue Russian-Saudi contacts on this issue

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Putin discusses cutting oil output with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince The Kremlin press service said that the sides also agreed to continue Russian-Saudi contacts on this issue

Russian President Vladimir Putin © Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the question of cutting oil output with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud in a telephone conversation, the Kremlin press service reported on Friday. “The questions were discussed connected with talks […]

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There’s no returning to pre-virus normal: KCDC Korea’s daily coronavirus cases in double digits for 9 straight days

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There’s no returning to pre-virus normal: KCDC Korea’s daily coronavirus cases in double digits for 9 straight days

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun convenes meeting for COVID-19 response on Saturday. (Yonhap) Thirty people were newly confirmed with novel coronavirus infections in South Korea on Saturday, recording a nine-day streak of double-digit daily tally, health officials said. Korea’s cumulative cases totaled 10,480 according to the Health Ministry, 7,243 of whom have recovered. The remaining 3,026 […]

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African community targeted in China virus crackdown

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African community targeted in China virus crackdown

Guangzhou in southern China is home to a sizeable African community FRED DUFOUR AFP  Beijing (AFP) Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as the country steps up its fight against imported infections. China says it has largely curbed […]

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Coronavirus: COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 as Italy extends lockdown

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Coronavirus: COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 as Italy extends lockdown

MA nurse from a elderly home holds a crucifix on April 10, 2020 in Manta, near Cuneo, northwestern Italy, as part of a Good Friday’s Way of the Cross (Via Crucis)   –   Copyright  MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP The global death toll of the deadly coronavirus has now passed 100,000, as Europe’s worst-hit nation Italy extended its lockdown for three more […]

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A message from Wuhan people to the world, Stay united, stay indoors, and be hopeful: best experience to the world

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A message from Wuhan people to the world, Stay united, stay indoors, and be hopeful: best experience to the world

Reflecting on the past two months, people in Wuhan, whose lives have been upended by a 76-day city lockdown to contain the coronavirus, believe simple words are far from enough to express their mixed feelings about the virus, for their beloved ones, for strangers who offered help during the darkest moments, and for the city […]

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Daily coronavirus deaths in Spain fall to 605, the lowest figure since March 24 The Spanish government has changed its position on the use of masks, and is now recommending their use in some workplaces and on public transport from Monday, when many will return to work

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Daily coronavirus deaths in Spain fall to 605, the lowest figure since March 24 The Spanish government has changed its position on the use of masks, and is now recommending their use in some workplaces and on public transport from Monday, when many will return to work

Health staff at work in Madrid’s Puerta de Hierro hospital.JUANJO MARTIN / EFE Spain saw 605 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, according to official figures from the Health Ministry. The figure marks the lowest daily number of fatalities since March 24. The total of coronavirus-related deaths came in at 683 on Thursday, 757 […]

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Unprecedented: US becomes first country to report 2,000+ Covid-19 deaths in SINGLE DAY, breaking global record

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Unprecedented: US becomes first country to report 2,000+ Covid-19 deaths in SINGLE DAY, breaking global record

FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers prepare to transfer the body of a deceased person at a Brooklyn hospital during the Covid-19 outbreak in New York. ©  Reuters / Brendan McDermid2828 The United States has counted more than 2,000 Covid-19 fatalities in the space of 24 hours, smashing all previous daily death tolls worldwide as the US outbreak shows […]

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New coronavirus not the real killer: it’s the patient’s immune system damaging vital organs

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New coronavirus not the real killer: it’s the patient’s immune system damaging vital organs

  Member of the medical staff take care of a patient infected by the novel coronavirus, at the COVID-19 division at the ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo   –   Copyright  PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP or licensors  The problem with such a fast and widespread pandemic as the novel coronavirus is that scientists and doctors only understand the virus and […]

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