April 7, 2020

Boris Johnson Britain's Johnson 'Stable' In Intensive Care

Britain’s Boris Johnson ‘Stable’ In Intensive Care

April 7, 2020 6:22 pm

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson was battling the coronavirus in intensive care on Tuesday, raising deep concerns about his health as the country recorded its highest daily death toll.

“The Prime Minister’s condition is stable and he remains in intensive care for close monitoring. He is in good spirits,” his official spokesman said in an update sent around 1800GMT, almost 24 hours since he was admitted to intensive care.

He earlier said the 55-year-old Conservative leader was receiving “standard oxygen treatment and breathing without any other assistance” and had not required a ventilator.

Johnson is the most high-profile government leader …

Airbnb Gets $1bn Investment For Post-Virus Recovery

Airbnb Gets $1bn Investment For Post-Virus Recovery

April 7, 2020 6:20 pm

Airbnb on Monday announced it was taking a billion dollars in new investment to endure and, it hopes, thrive in a travel world transformed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners will invest the money into the home-sharing platform in the form of debt and equity, according to Airbnb.

“While the current environment is clearly a difficult one for the hospitality industry, the desire to travel and have authentic experiences is fundamental and enduring,” Silver Lake managing partner Egon Durban said in a release.

“Airbnb’s diverse, global, and resilient business model is particularly well suited to prosper

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Qatar, Russia Deny Buying World Cup Rights In Bribe Case

Qatar, Russia Deny Buying World Cup Rights In Bribe Case

April 7, 2020 6:19 pm

Qatar and Russia hit back at allegations of bribery on Tuesday after US prosecutors accused them of paying millions in bribes for the rights to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.

According to US Justice Department documents released Monday, FIFA officials received bribes to vote in favour of awarding the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.

Doha said it “strongly denies the allegations contained within the court papers” while the Kremlin said it “absolutely legally got the right” to host the 2018 global football spectacle.

The US legal action is linked to a wide-ranging 2015 …

Huge Exodus Begins As Virus-Hit Wuhan Lifts Travel Ban

Huge Exodus Begins As Virus-Hit Wuhan Lifts Travel Ban

April 7, 2020 6:19 pm

Thousands of Chinese travellers rushed to leave coronavirus-ravaged Wuhan early Wednesday as authorities lifted a more than two-month prohibition on outbound travel from the city where the global pandemic first emerged.

As the ban expired on schedule at midnight (1600 GMT Tuesday), passengers — many in hazmat suits — expressed joy and relief as they filed into Wuhan’s Wuchang station to catch the first overnight trains out of town.

“Wuhan has lost a lot in this epidemic, and Wuhan people have paid a big price,” said a 21-year-old man surnamed Yao, who was heading back to his restaurant job in …

coronavirus NY Records 731 New Virus Deaths In Its Deadliest Day Yet

NY Records 731 New Virus Deaths In Its Deadliest Day Yet

April 7, 2020 3:31 pm

New York state recorded 731 new coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, marking the biggest one-day jump in the outbreak. The state’s death toll since the beginning of the outbreak is now 5,489, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo.

“That’s 731 people who we lost. Behind every one of those numbers is an individual. There’s a family, there’s a mother, there’s a father, there’s a sister, there’s a brother. So a lot of pain again today for many New Yorkers,” Cuomo said at a briefing at the state Capitol.

The coronavirus has again made New York City ground zero in a national tragedy

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Overwhelmed US Funeral Homes Turn Families Away

Overwhelmed US Funeral Homes Turn Families Away

April 7, 2020 3:30 pm
Funeral director Kendall Lindsay has been forced to turn 20 families away.

As the number of COVID-19 deaths skyrockets in New York City, the third-generation funeral director at Lawrence H Woodward Funeral Home in Brooklyn said the demand for funeral services has increased overwhelmingly. 

On March 29, the funeral home had 127 scheduled funeral services; a week later, on April 5, that number had gone up to 175, Lindsay told Al Jazeera in an email. The funeral home is not taking on any new cases because it is running out of storage capacity.

“We have cases we cannot bury or

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UN Condemns Rocket Attack On Tripoli Hospital

UN Condemns Rocket Attack On Tripoli Hospital

April 7, 2020 3:29 pm
The United Nations has condemned the shelling of a hospital in Tripoli, calling it a “clear violation of international law” as Libya struggles to prepare for an outbreak of the new coronavirus.

On Monday, projectiles struck the grounds of the Al Khadra General Hospital located in an area held by the internationally recognised government near a front line, injuring at least six health workers.

Read Also: Rocket Fire On Iraq Base Wounds 3 US Coalition Officers

Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told a news conference held via video link that the

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NZ's Health Minister Demoted For Vacation With family

NZ’s Health Minister Demoted For Vacation With family

April 7, 2020 3:23 pm

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has demoted the country’s health minister for breaching nationwide lockdown rules but rejected his offer to resign because it could jeopardise plans to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Health Minister David Clark drove his family to the beach in the early stages of a lockdown that started in late March.

Read Also: Hangover From Colonial Mentality – WHO Slams French Docs

“Under normal conditions, I would sack the minister of health. What he did was wrong and there are no excuses,” Ardern said in Wellington.

Instead, she demoted Clark to the bottom of …

Wisconsin Residents Head To Polls Amid Coronavirus

Wisconsin Residents Head To Polls Amid Coronavirus

April 7, 2020 3:23 pm
Wisconsin voters faced long lines at limited polling locations on Tuesday, as the state’s presidential primary and local elections moved ahead despite mounting fears about the coronavirus pandemic.

The election is taking place even though Wisconsin, like most US states, has imposed a stay-at-home order on its residents. More than a dozen other states have postponed their elections in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has transformed Americans’ daily lives and plunged the economy into an apparent recession.

More than half of Wisconsin’s municipalities reported shortages of poll workers, prompting the Midwestern state to call up 2,400 National Guard

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Africa: Coronavirus - Beware The Power Grab

Africa: Coronavirus – Beware The Power Grab

April 7, 2020 1:24 pm

The pandemic is a real emergency and the perfect excuse for a power grab. We must monitor abuses and be ready to take back rights we’ve sacrificed.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, the public health interventions required to reduce its impact are wide-ranging and, in many countries, unprecedented. We must accept some restrictions on our freedoms in order to survive. That is the stark reality we face.

There is a long history of citizens being told by their governments to accept limitations on their rights to protect them from harm. Since 9/11, the US government has fuelled a global “War …

Congo - Convicted Congolese Warlord Escapes. Again

Congo: Convicted Congolese Warlord Escapes. Again

April 7, 2020 1:23 pm

A week ago, President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo gave the order to arrest a notorious warlord responsible for atrocities in the southern region of Katanga. Two days earlier, Gédéon Kyungu had escaped from house arrest in Lubumbashi after dozens of his militiamen entered the city and other towns in the region.

Gédéon – he is known by his first name – should never have been under mere house arrest. He had escaped from prison in 2011, two years after being convicted for crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. When he surrendered in 2016, the government …

Hangover From Colonial Mentality – WHO Slams French Docs

Hangover From Colonial Mentality – WHO Slams French Docs

April 7, 2020 1:22 pm
The World Health Organization, WHO, has reacted to some French doctors’ suggestion of using Africa as a test laboratory for Coronavirus vaccine.

The two French doctors, Jean Paul Mira and Camille Locht, who spoke on a live TV Interview, insisted that Africa is the best place to conduct such test as they recalled how an experimental treatment for AIDS was carried out in Africa

The statement has since triggered global outrage as some described it as racist.

Read Also: WHO Boss Told To Resign As US Death Toll Surpasses China

Reacting, the international health agency’s chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while

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