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New Coronavirus Cases In Beijing Prompt Emergency Shopping

New Coronavirus Cases In Beijing Prompt Emergency Shopping

April 25, 2022 7:48 pm

 The specter of coronavirus lockdowns was creeping into view in China’s capital, forcing people to stock up on supplies.
Even though the 3.5 million residents of one district have been ordered to undergo regular testing.

The testing regime in the district of Chaoyang would require residents there to go through three rounds of testing at two-day intervals.

The requirement comes as a few dozen cases have been located in Beijing.

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There were also reports of general lockdowns in the city’s western districts, with residents told not to leave …

UK Unemployment Hits 5.0% On COVID-19 Fallout

Spain Unemployment Hit 16.26% Amid COVID-19 Fallout

October 27, 2020 5:51 pm

Spain’s unemployment rate jumped to 16.26 percent in the third quarter as the country’s tourism-dependent economy was ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Tuesday.

The reading for the July-September period compares with a jobless rate of 15.3 percent for April to June in the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy, national statistics office INE said in a statement.

There were an additional 355,000 people out of work in Spain in the third quarter, still an improvement over the second quarter when over a million jobs were lost, mainly in the tourism sector.

The number of total unemployed stood at 3.7 million …

Trump And First Lady Melania Test Positive For COVID-19

Trump And First Lady Melania Test Positive For COVID-19

October 2, 2020 4:23 am

President Donald Trump announced early Friday that he and his wife both tested positive for the coronavirus, an extraordinary development coming months into a global pandemic and in the final stretch of his reelection campaign in which he has flouted experts’ guidance on preventing the disease’s spread.

The diagnosis amounts to the most serious known health threat to a sitting American president in decades. At 74 years old and obese, Trump falls into the highest risk category for serious complications from the disease, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans and more than 1 million people worldwide.
His infection with
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South Africa opens borders to African countries, limits others

South Africa Opens Borders To African Countries, Limits Others

October 1, 2020 2:52 pm

South Africa will reopen its borders to all African countries from Thursday while barring tourists from around 50 nations with high coronavirus infection rates, the government said on Wednesday.

The continent’s most industrialised economy shuttered its borders at the start of a strict nationwide lockdown on March 27 to limit the spread of the virus.

Restrictions on movement and business have been gradually eased since June, but borders stayed sealed to avoid importing the virus from abroad.

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Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said the country would “gradually” open borders, but …

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Pope Francis ‘Constantly Monitored’ For COVID-19 – Vatican

September 14, 2020 5:30 pm

Pope Francis is being “constantly monitored” for signs of the coronavirus, a top Vatican official said Monday, after the 83-year old pontiff met with a cardinal who later tested positive.

Philippine cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, 63, had a private audience with Francis on August 29. He went on to test positive for Covid-19 on his return to Manila on September 10.

“We are being prudent,” Secretary of State Pietro Parolin told ANSA news agency.

“There is no particular alarm (in the Vatican)”, but the health of the head of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics was being “constantly monitored,” he added.…

Liberia’s Taylor Denied Coronavirus Jail Move

Liberia’s Taylor Denied Coronavirus Jail Move

September 8, 2020 3:11 pm
Judges have rejected a bid by Liberian ex-president and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor to be moved from a British jail, where he claimed he risks dying from coronavirus.

Taylor is serving a 50-year sentence at Frankland prison near Durham in northeastern England after being convicted in 2012 by a court in The Hague of fuelling civil conflict in Sierra Leone.

The warlord had argued that due to a “massive outbreak of Covid-19 in the UK” his life was at risk from continued detention in Britain and that he wanted to be moved to a “safe third country”.

But the …

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Ghana: International Flights Resume September 1

August 31, 2020 2:10 pm

The Kotoka International Airport in Ghana will open for international flights from September 1.

It was shut about five months ago after the outbreak of coronavirus.

On Sunday, President Akufo-Addo said public health officials can now conduct rapid tests on passengers.

In his 16th address to the nation on the pandemic, Akufo-Addo said: “I am glad to announce that KIA will reopen and resume operations from Tuesday, September 1, 2020.”

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The president confirmed that the decision and measures to be adhered to have been communicated to international airlines worldwide.…

Spain Calls In Army To Fight COVID-19 Pandemic

Spain Calls In Army To Fight COVID-19 Pandemic

August 25, 2020 6:07 pm

Spain will call in the army to help identify those who have been exposed to people infected with coronavirus as part of efforts to curb the spread of the disease, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Tuesday.

The central government will make 2,000 soldiers who are trained in tracking available to the regions, which are responsible for health care, to assist in tracking cases and stem a rise in infections, he told a news conference.

“We could even increase this figure as required through the urgent training which we have planned,” Sanchez said.

Many experts have blamed a lack of virus …

COVID-19 Cases In Africa Surpass One Million

COVID-19 Cases In Africa Surpass One Million

August 17, 2020 5:20 pm

Coronavirus has now infected more than one million people in Africa, but hopes that the pandemic may be peaking in some countries are mingled with fears of a second wave.

Nations across the continent have recorded 1,011,495 infections and at least 22,115 deaths, accounting for around five percent of global cases, according to an AFP tally as at 1100 GMT Friday.

Just five countries account for 75% of all cases, says the continent’s health watchdog the Africa Centres for Diseases Control.

Some countries have recently seen declines of around 20 percent in daily cases but it is too early to …

‘Vaccine Nationalism’ Cannot Beat COVID-19, Says WHO

‘Vaccine Nationalism’ Cannot Beat COVID-19, Says WHO

August 6, 2020 6:16 pm

The World Health Organisation on Thursday warned against “vaccine nationalism,” saying vaccine-hogging richer countries would not be safe coronavirus havens if poor nations remained exposed.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it would be in wealthier nations’ interests to ensure that any vaccines eventually produced to protect against the new coronavirus were shared globally.

“Vaccine nationalism is not good, it will not help us,” Tedros told the Aspen Security Forum in the United States, via video-link from the WHO’s headquarters in Geneva.

“For the world to recover faster, it has to recover together, because it’s a globalised world: the economies …

31.3m Americans receive jobless benefits, 1.2m new

31.3m Americans Receive Jobless Benefits, 1.2m New

August 6, 2020 3:42 pm
Nearly 1.2 million Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs.

The Labor Department’s report Thursday marked the 20th straight week that at least 1 million people have sought jobless aid.

All told, the Labor Department said Thursday that 31.3 million people are receiving some form of unemployment benefits, though the figure may be inflated by double-counting by states.

Before the pandemic hit hard in March, the number of Americans seeking unemployment checks had never surpassed 700,000 in a week, not even during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

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Spain Second Virus Wave Swells, Fuels Concern Across Europe

Spain Second Virus Wave Swells, Fuels Concern Across Europe

July 26, 2020 3:13 pm

Spain is scrambling to stay ahead of new outbreaks of the coronavirus that prompted the U.K. to impose a quarantine on travelers returning from the country, dealing a new blow to its tourism-dependent economy.

Only weeks after the U.K. included Spain on a list of countries safe for summer holidays, the government reversed course and announced late Saturday it would impose a 14-day quarantine on anyone arriving from Spain. The move came after cases in the country jumped, particularly in the Catalonia region, where authorities are racing to stamp out new outbreaks.…

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