Category: International News

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 782 total views,  782 views today ByAGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Britain’s prime minister was battling the coronavirus in intensive care Tuesday, the highest-profile case in the pandemic that continued to chalk up new death toll milestones in the United States and Europe. Boris Johnson’s fight against the disease underscored the indiscriminate nature of COVID-19, which has restricted freedoms for some four billion people, wrecked the global economy and upended society. The pandemic’s relentless death march across the planet has already claimed more than 73,000 victims out of 1.32 million confirmed cases, with warnings…

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 1,103 total views,  210 views today BY AFP,6TH APRIL,2020-A tiger at New York’s Bronx Zoo has tested positive for Covid-19, the institution said Sunday, and is believed to have contracted the virus from a caretaker who was asymptomatic at the time. The four-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia along with her sister Azul, two Amur tigers and three African lions all developed dry coughs and are expected to fully recover, the Wildlife Conservation Society that runs the city’s zoos said in a statement. “We tested the cat out of an abundance of caution…

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 2,727 total views,  181 views today BY CNN,1ST APRIL,2020-Eighteen months might sound like a long time, but in vaccine years, it’s a blink. That’s the long end of the Trump administration’s time window for developing a coronavirus vaccine, and some leaders in the field say this is too fast — and could come at the expense of safety. The estimated time made headlines last month, when Trump remarked at a televised Cabinet Room meeting with pharmaceutical executives that a vaccine could be ready in “three to four months.” There, in front of…

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 2,350 total views,  16 views today BY AFP,Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Mar 29 – Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier Volker Bouffier said Sunday. Schaefer, 54, was found dead near a railway track on Saturday. The Wiesbaden prosecution’s office said they believe he died by suicide. “We are in shock, we are in disbelief and above all we are immensely sad,” Bouffier said in a recorded statement. Hesse…

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 2,381 total views,  1 views today BY BBC NEWS,27TH MARCH,2020- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus.The BBC, citing Number 10, reports that the Conservatives leader is experiencing mild symptoms, including fever. “Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus,” Mr Johnson tweeted on Friday. “I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government’s response via video-conference as we fight this virus”. The PM was tested at his office by National Health Service (NHS) staff, on the recommendation of…

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 1,907 total views,  4 views today BY CNN,25TH MARCH,2020-Prince Charles, the Queen’s son and the first in line to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus and is now self-isolating in Scotland. Here’s the statement from Clarence House: “The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus. He has been displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health and has been working from home throughout the last few days as usual.  “The Duchess of Cornwall has also been tested but does not have the virus. In accordance with government and medical advice, the Prince and…

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 1,040 total views,  3 views today BY AFP,Washington, United States, Mar 24 – President Donald Trump declared the beginning of the end of the coronavirus crisis in the United States on Tuesday and called for a quick end to social distancing, even as New York’s governor compared the growing pandemic to a “bullet train.” Trump, who is keen to get his reelection campaign back on track, said that social distancing has caused too much pain to the US economy, prompting Congress to debate a historic rescue package. “Our country — it’s not…

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 1,999 total views,  1 views today BY AFP,24TH MARCH,2020-Britain ordered a three-week lockdown on Monday in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus as world health officials warned that the pandemic was “accelerating” around the globe. As the country joined other nations in imposing strict stay-at-home orders, the number of virus deaths worldwide surged past 16,500 and the number of confirmed cases surpassed 378,000. The death toll in New York City neared 100, sparking growing concern over the spread of the virus in the largest US metropolis, home to some 8.4…

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 4,621 total views,  1 views today Ottawa, Canada, Mar 13 – Justin Trudeau’s wife has tested positive for novel coronavirus, his office said late Thursday, while assuring the public the Canadian prime minister is fine. Canada’s leader and his 44-year-old wife announced Thursday they were self-isolating while she was tested for coronavirus after a public event. “Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau was tested for COVID-19 today. The test came back positive,” the Prime Minister’s office said in a statement, adding she would remain in isolation and her symptoms were mild. “The Prime Minister is in good…

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 9,382 total views,  1 views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, New Delhi, India, Mar 4 – A group of Italian tourists have been put in quarantine in India, with 17 testing positive for the new coronavirus, a source told AFP Wednesday. Italy is a hotspot of the deadly virus with 79 deaths and more than 2,500 infected, while India’s official case total stands at only 21. After two out of a group of 23 tourists who arrived in the country last month tested positive in the western state of Rajasthan, the other 21 were put…

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 5,352 total views By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Vatican City, Vatican City State, Mar 3 – Pope Francis, who is suffering from a cold, has tested negative for the coronavirus, an Italian newspaper reported Tuesday, as Italy battles Europe’s worst outbreak. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni did not respond to an AFP request for comment on the Messaggero newspaper report and sources said no statement was expected. But contacted by AFP, the newspaper’s Vatican reporter Gianfranca Soldati said her sources told her “the pope is doing well, continues to work, but wants to recover by staying…

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 1,429 total views,  1 views today BY AFP,SEOUL SOUTH KOREA,2ND MARCH 2020-Seoul’s city government has asked prosecutors to press charges, including murder, against the founder of a secretive religious sect for failing to cooperate in containing the spread of the deadly coronavirus. South Korea has seen a surge in the number of infections — adding more than 4,000 cases in less than two weeks — with around 60 percent of the national total linked to the Shincheonji Church of Jesus. As officials try to track down and test more than 266,000 people…

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 3,099 total views,  3 views today BY BBC NEWS,SOUTH KOREA,1ST MARCH,2020-The leader of a religious sect in South Korea could face a homicide investigation over some of the country’s coronavirus deaths. The city government of the capital Seoul has asked prosecutors to charge Lee Man-hee, the founder of the Shincheonji Church, and 11 others. They are accused of hiding the names of some members as officials tried to track patients before the virus spread. South Korea is battling the worst coronavirus outbreak outside China. The country has reported 3,730 cases and 21…

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 872 total views,  1 views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Tokyo, Japan, Feb 27 – Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday urged schools nationwide to close for several weeks to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, as authorities reported the country’s fourth death linked to the outbreak. The move comes as crew members from the Diamond Princess, a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship quarantined off Japan, began leaving the vessel where more than 700 people have tested positive for the disease. “The government considers the health and safety of children above anything…

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 2,947 total views BY AFP,25TH FEB 2020-The new coronavirus has peaked in China but could still grow into a pandemic, the World Health Organisation has warned, as infections mushroom in other countries. Financial markets have gone into a tailspin after grim news of deaths and outbreaks in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, even as the Chinese epicentre appeared to be calming, with the death toll at its lowest for three weeks. But the situation is worsening in other countries, with more than 2,000 cases and 30 deaths reported abroad, prompting…

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 13,430 total views,  1 views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Beijing, China, Feb 16 – The number of new cases from China’s coronavirus epidemic dropped for a third consecutive day on Sunday, as the World Health Organisation chief warned it was “impossible” to predict how the outbreak would develop. Global concern remains high about the spread of the virus, which first emerged in China’s central Hubei province in December, with the first death outside Asia reported in France this weekend. The death toll jumped to 1,665 in mainland China on Sunday after 142 more people…

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 6,968 total views By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Beijing, China, Feb 12 – China’s official death toll from the new coronavirus spiked dramatically on Thursday after authorities changed their counting methods, fuelling concern the epidemic is far worse than being reported. As the figures soared in China, a troubling new front opened abroad as neighbouring Vietnam placed 10,000 people under quarantine after six COVID-19 cases were discovered in a cluster of villages — the first such lockdown overseas. Japan reported its first death of an infected person — the third fatality outside mainland China after…

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 4,190 total views,  1 views today BY AFP,BEIJING,12TH FEB 2020-The death toll from China’s new coronavirus epidemic climbed past 1,100 on Wednesday but the number of new cases fell for a second straight day, as the World Health Organization urged global unity to combat the “grave threat”. As Beijing scrambles to contain the virus, the number of people infected on a cruise ship off Japan’s coast rose to 174 — the biggest cluster outside the Chinese mainland. COVID-119 Another 97 people died in China, raising the national toll to 1,113, while more…

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 3,290 total views BY V.O.A,11TH FEB 2020-The coronavirus death toll in China has hit an unhappy milestone, topping 1,000 after the center of the outbreak, Hubei province, reported another 103 deaths Monday. Chinese officials say there are now nearly 43,000 confirmed cases across the country, and 1,016 deaths. President Xi Jinping visited coronavirus patients at a Beijing hospital Monday and called for “more decisive measures” to contain the outbreak, Chinese state television reports. World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday the spread of coronavirus between people who had no…

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 2,156 total views By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Wuhan, China, Jan 30 –The nationwide death toll from China’s viral epidemic has leapt to 170, the government said on Thursday, with more than 1,700 new infections confirmed. Thirty-seven of the 38 new deaths came in hard-hit Hubei province, the epicentre of a contagion that is causing mounting global fear. Another death occurred in southwestern Sichuan province, the National Health Commission reported. Tibet also reported its first case, the commission said. The 38 new deaths marked the biggest single-day jump yet and come as a massive…

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 2,868 total views BY REUTERS/NAMULONGO PETER ,27TH JAN 2020-Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA’s all-time greatest players and an athlete of global renown, was killed at age 41 on Sunday in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven on board, officials said. Bryant rocketed to fame as an 18-year-old rookie and played 20 years for the Los Angeles Lakers, 18 as an all-star forward, and won five NBA championships. His death sent shockwaves through the National Basketball Association, which he helped propel to international prominence,…

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