April 11, 2020

Americans Won't Attend Sports Events Without Vaccine

Americans Won’t Attend Sports Events Without Vaccine

April 11, 2020 6:15 pm

A large majority of Americans would be reluctant to attend future sporting events unless a vaccine for the coronavirus is developed, a survey by Seton Hall University has found.

With every major sport across North America in shutdown for the past month since the COVID-19 crisis erupted, professional leagues are already exploring the practicalities of how and when competition may resume.

But the results of the Seton Hall Sports Poll revealed deep unease among Americans about returning to stadiums before a vaccine had been developed.

The survey of 762 people carried out between April 6-8 found that 72% would not …

South Africa Arrests Two Police Officers For Teen’s Murder

African Community Targeted In China Virus Crackdown

April 11, 2020 6:14 pm

African Communities 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 its COVID-19 outbreak but a recent cluster of cases linked to the Nigerian community in Guangzhou sparked the alleged discrimination by locals and virus prevention officials.

Local authorities in the industrial centre of 15 million said at least eight people diagnosed with the illness had spent time in the city’s Yuexiu district, known as “Little Africa”.

Five were Nigerian …

Pogba 'Hungry To Come Back' From Injury

Pogba ‘Hungry To Come Back’ From Injury

April 11, 2020 6:12 pm

Manchester United star Paul Pogba said he is eager to return from a lengthy spell on the sidelines when football resumes following the coronavirus pandemic.

The World Cup winner has been limited to just eight appearances for United this season after battling a nagging ankle injury.

“I’m already training and touching the ball,” Pogba, who hasn’t played since December 26, told the United Podcast.

“I’ve been frustrated, a long time ago. Now I’m almost there, so I’m just thinking about getting back and training fully with the team and everything.”

“You think bad but I’ve never had something like this …

Passengers From Virus-Infected Ship Leave For Australia

Passengers From Virus-Infected Ship Leave For Australia

April 11, 2020 6:11 pm

More than 100 Australians and New Zealanders left Uruguay on a chartered flight after two weeks stranded aboard a virus-infected cruise ship, Montevideo’s Carrasco airport said Saturday.

Of 217 people aboard the Greg Mortimer liner, 128 had tested positive for new coronavirus and had been blocked from docking.

An agreement between the Uruguayan and Australian governments was made to create a “sanitary corridor” to take the mostly elderly tourists from Montevideo’s port to its international airport where they boarded a flight for Melbourne, bringing to an end weeks of a virus nightmare.

Television images showed jubilant passengers boarding the …

Ipob 'How Govt Palliatives Exposed Buhari’s Hatred For Igbos'

‘How Govt Palliatives Exposed Buhari’s Hatred For Igbos’

April 11, 2020 2:53 pm
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Saturday, alleged that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government hates the Southeast.

IPOB claimed that the lopsidedness of government’s on-going disbursement of palliative to poor Nigerians to cushion the effect of the lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic showed hatred for the Southeast.

The group lamented that while the National Cash Transfer Office handling the disbursement had concentrated on people from the Northern zones, only few persons in one state of the South East were remembered in the largess.

Read Also: Ebonyi Police, IPOB In War Of Words Over Killings In Ngbo

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Viral Photo Turns 13-Year-Old Beggar To Celebrity

Viral Photo Turns 13-Year-Old Beggar To Celebrity

April 11, 2020 2:50 pm

Four years ago, Rita Gaviola was a 13-year-old street beggar in the Filipino town of Lucban. Since then she has worked with some of the world’s hottest brands as a fashion model, starred on hit reality TV shows and gained over 100,000 Instagram followers. It was all thanks to a random photo.

Gaviola’s incredible ‘rags to riches’ story began in 2016. Back then, she was asking for alms on the streets of Lucban, to help her family make ends meet. Her father worked as a garbage collector and her mother stayed home to look after her and her five siblings.…

Covid-19 - What We’ll Miss This Easter - Nigerians

Covid-19: What We’ll Miss This Easter – Nigerians

April 11, 2020 12:59 pm

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. But in light of the ongoing battle against COVID-19 and its concomitant lockdowns of cities and lives, not many people appear to be in a celebratory mood. In any case, where is the rice, the chicken and Turkey meat, the fish, the vegetable oil, the drinks that had been used to celebrate the epoch event in the past? Findings show that they are in short supply or totally out of reach to the common man, no thanks to the economic slump, lockdowns and restriction of movement. Saturday Sun correspondents went round to talk to people on …

Don’t Let Them Free Captured Boko Haram Members – Deby

Don’t Let Them Free Captured Boko Haram Members – Déby

April 11, 2020 12:58 pm
Chad President, Idriss Déby has urged Chadian troops not to allow Nigerian soldiers free captured weapons or Boko Haram terrorists.

Déby in a viral video, warned that if they allow Nigerian troops to release the captured Boko Haram members, they will return to Chad and hurt them.

According to him, 90 percent of Boko Haram terrorist have been destroyed and the other 10 percent escaped to Niger and Nigeria.

He was quoted as saying, “This place will be our zone until Nigeria sends its soldiers. Stay with them for about

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How False Results Are Complicating COVID-19 Testing

How False Results Are Complicating COVID-19 Testing

April 11, 2020 12:56 pm

As COVID-19 tests become more widely available across the United States, scientists have warned that there is one growing concern: The tests are not 100 percent reliable, meaning people with negative results might actually have the virus.

That could have devastating implications as a global recession looms and governments wrangle with the question of when to reopen economies shuttered as billions of people were ordered to stay home in an effort to halt the transmission of the deadly disease.

The majority of tests around the world use a technology called PCR, which detects traces of the coronavirus in mucus samples.

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New Ways To Stay Healthy During Lockdown

New Ways To Stay Healthy During Lockdown

April 11, 2020 12:55 pm

With our usual routines going out window and the thought of staying in your pyjamas all day becoming ever more tempting, it is more important than ever to stay healthy during the lockdown.

This may require you to think a little outside of the box, but you should certainly try to maintain the four pillars of health.

Nutrition

Grocery store delivery slots have become as precious as gold dust in many places, and every journey to the supermarket feels as if you are walking through a petri dish, so it can be difficult to access fresh fruit and vegetables, hampering

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Coronavirus Kills 11 Year-Old Boy In UK As Deaths Soar

Coronavirus Kills 11 Year-Old Boy In UK As Deaths Soar

April 11, 2020 12:53 pm

The coronavirus death toll in the UK rose by 917 to 9,875 on Saturday. It was the third successive day of high deaths in the country.

On Thursday, the country lost 938 people to the pandemic.

On Friday, the death toll rose to a record 980.

Read Also: Coronavirus Kills 24 In South Africa

Out of the new deaths announced Saturday, England recorded 823, NHS England said.

Scotland recorded 47, Wales 36 and Northern Ireland 15.

The youngest victim in England was an 11 year-old boy. The oldest was 102 years.

NHS England revealed that 33 of the 823 dead, …

Spain Calls In Army To Fight COVID-19 Pandemic

Spain Shaking Off Coronavirus As Death Toll Plunges

April 11, 2020 12:52 pm

Spain appears to be shaking off the coronavirus epidemic after it posted another set of low figures of cases and deaths.

According to the update provided by worldometers.info, the new deaths on Saturday were 272.

The figure was a sharp fall from the 634 deaths recorded on Friday.

Confirmed cases also plunged from 5,051 to 3,579, taking the national toll to 161,852 and second to U.S. humongous record of 503,177.

Death toll is also now 16,353, third to Italy 18,849 and United States 18,761 deaths.

Since Thursday, Spain has been posting lower single-day numbers of new cases and related deaths.…

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