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Brazil virus toll surges to third-highest in world

Brazil Virus Toll Surges To Third-Highest In World

June 5, 2020 4:21 pm

Brazil’s death toll from the new coronavirus surpassed Italy’s to become the third-highest in the world Thursday, as the UN’s secretary-general called for a “people’s vaccine” to stem the pandemic.

The bleak figures from Brazil underlined the grim toll the virus is taking in Latin America, the latest epicenter in the pandemic, even as Europe seeks to reemerge from lockdown — including with a massive new 600-billion-euro ($674-billion) economic stimulus measure announced by the European Central Bank.

But on the medical side, the outlook remains blurry.

Even as researchers around the world race to develop and test vaccines, new — …

Anti-virus face masks plague Hong Kong's beaches

Anti-Virus Face Masks Plague Hong Kong’s Beaches

June 5, 2020 4:19 pm

Surgical masks are washing up in growing quantities on the shores of Hong Kong, a city that has overwhelmingly embraced face coverings to fight the coronavirus.

Conservationists say the masks are adding to already alarmingly high levels of plastic waste in the waters around the finance hub.

“The single use plastic mask is just another additional burden that we are leaving behind for the future generations on the beach,” Gary Stokes, co-founder of OceansAsia, told AFP.

Shortly before the global pandemic struck, the Hong Kong-based environmental NGO launched a year-long study looking at marine debris and microplastics found on …

South African President Says Farm Attacks ‘Not Genocidal’

South Africa Loosens Lockdown Despite Coronavirus Heavy Caseload

June 1, 2020 9:00 am

South Africa sought to revive its economy on Monday with the partial lifting of a coronavirus lockdown, letting people out for work, worship or shopping, and allowing mines and factories to run at full capacity.

But resumption of schools has been postponed by a week.

President Cyril Ramaphosa was widely praised when he ordered a strict lockdown at the end of March.

But the measures have battered the economy of Africa’s most industrialised nation, which was already in recession before the coronavirus.

South Africa’s central bank expects the economy, which has been hard hit by the impact of power cuts …

World virus cases top 6 mn as Brazil toll surges

World Coronavirus Cases Top 6mn As Brazil Toll Surges

May 31, 2020 5:17 pm

The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has topped six million as the disease spread rapidly across Latin America and political leaders feuded over how to deal with the pandemic.

Much of the world is moving at varying speeds to lift lockdowns that have wrecked economies and stripped millions of their jobs while Muslims in Jerusalem and other cities flocked to newly reopened mosques on Sunday.

But in Brazil — the epicenter of South America’s outbreak with nearly 500,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, lagging only behind the US — disagreement among its leaders over lockdown measures has hampered efforts to slow the …

COVID-19 - 10 Dangerous Nigerian States You Must Avoid Travelling To

COVID-19: 10 Dangerous Nigerian States You Must Avoid Travelling To

May 30, 2020 5:29 am
With the deadly Coronavirus still sweeping massively across the nation, Nigerians must be extremely careful where they travel to or else, they will be brought down by the pandemic.

Currently, Nigeria has raked in 8,915 confirmed cases of Coronavirus since February. It has been able to discharge 2,592 patients who survived the pandemic, with 259 people who died from the pandemic. Nigeria has 6,064 active cases of the virus to deal with as at Thursday, May 28.

Of this skyrocketing figures, 10 states in Nigeria play major roles in ramping up the virus. These states are dangerous to travel to …

COVID-19 Deaths In New York Drop Below 100

COVID-19 Deaths In New York Drop Below 100

May 24, 2020 10:13 am

The coronavirus death toll in New York dipped below 100 for the first time since the crisis erupted in March.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as a result, has given Westchester and the Hudson Valley the green light to reopen starting on Tuesday.

The governor also suggested hard-hit Long Island could start the reopening process on Wednesday if the death toll and case numbers keep dropping in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

“What’s safe in Buffalo is safe in Albany is safe in New York City,” Cuomo said on Saturday.

Read Also: 102 Kids In New York Down With Kawasaki Disease

The death …

Brazil Topples Russia As Coronavirus World Hot Spot No.2

Brazil Topples Russia As Coronavirus World Hot Spot No.2

May 24, 2020 5:02 am

Brazil registered 16,508 cases of coronavirus on Saturday, taking the national total to 347,398.

Fatalities also increased by 965 on Saturday.The death toll is now 22,013.

Skeptics, however believed that the actual number of cases and deaths is higher than the official figures disclosed by the government.

The suspicion arose because the testing capacity of Latin America’s largest country lags.

Brazil has now surpassed Russia’s 335,882 cases to become the world Number 2 virus hot spot.

Read Also: Brazil Health Minister Sacked Over Stay-At-Home Measure

Only the United States, which has 1,666,828 cases is ahead.

On Friday, Dr. Mike Ryan, …

E-Tournament - Euro 2020 kicks off without footballers

E-Tournament: Euro 2020 Kicks Off Without Footballers

May 23, 2020 4:50 pm

Euro 2020 may have been swept from the calendar due to coronavirus, but UEFA’s video-game eTournament version kicks off on Saturday regardless.

Instead of Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane or Cristiano Ronaldo racing around the pitch, gamers will slug it out, contesting the first ever eEuro from their armchairs.

“The weight of the whole thing is on our shoulders,” said 21-year-old Frenchman Lotfi Derradji, who comes from the Paris suburbs but ‘plays’ for Monaco where he was crowned French champion in 2018.

“We will represent France not on the pitch but on the Euro 2020 console, we’re getting huge amounts of …

Rolls-Royce Cuts 9,000 Jobs As Airlines Turn Off Engines

Rolls-Royce Cuts 9,000 Jobs As Airlines Turn Off Engines

May 21, 2020 3:22 am

Rolls-Royce, the British maker of plane engines, said Wednesday it will cut at least 9,000 jobs and slash costs elsewhere, as the coronavirus hammers the aviation sector.

“This is not a crisis of our making. But it is the crisis that we face and we must deal with it,” chief executive Warren East said in a statement announcing that Rolls would cut nearly one-fifth of its global workforce.

“Our airline customers and airframe partners are having to adapt and so must we.”

Unions said they expected most of the cuts to occur in the UK, while analysts said the knock-on …

Super Cyclone' Amphan Batters Bangladesh, India

Super Cyclone’ Amphan Batters Bangladesh, India

May 21, 2020 3:19 am

The strongest cyclone in decades slammed into Bangladesh and eastern India on Wednesday, sending water surging inland and leaving a trail of destruction as the death toll rose to at least nine.

High winds and torrid rains pounded coastal villages and cities, bringing down power lines, uprooting trees and inundating homes.

“The situation is more worrying than the coronavirus pandemic. We don’t know how to handle it,” India’s West Bengal state leader Mamata Banerjee told reporters late Wednesday.

Read Also: Bangladesh Evacuates 100,000 As Cyclone Bulbul Approaches

“Almost everything is destroyed in the coastal villages of the state.”

Authorities had

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Six Test Positive In 3 English Premier League Clubs

May 19, 2020 4:36 pm

Three English Premier League clubs have returned six positive cases for coronavirus.

This followed the testing of players and staff ahead of a return to training.

“The Premier League can today confirm that, on Sunday 17 May and Monday 18 May, 748 players and club staff were tested for COVID-19,” the league said in a statement.

“Of these, six have tested positive from three clubs.”

Read Also: EPL Threatens Clubs Over Restarting Matches

No details were released over which individuals or clubs are affected.

“Players or club staff who have tested positive will now self-isolate for a period of seven …

Coronavirus - Erdogan Announces First Nationwide Lockdown

Coronavirus: Erdogan Announces First Nationwide Lockdown

May 19, 2020 1:51 pm

Turkey is to impose its first nationwide lockdown before Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The four-day lockdown is to start on Saturday, on the eve of Eid festivities, across all 81 provinces, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

Turkey has not had a stringent countrywide curfew since it reported its first positive case on March 11, resorting instead to weekend curfews in certain provinces.

Erdogan said that some mosques would also gradually reopen for afternoon worship after Friday prayers on May 29.

Congregational prayers …

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