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South Asia Pandemic A 'Perfect Storm' For South Asia - World Bank

Pandemic A ‘Perfect Storm’ For South Asia – World Bank

April 12, 2020 6:36 pm

South Asia is on course for its worst economic performance in 40 years, with decades of progress in the battle against poverty at risk, because of coronavirus, the World Bank said Sunday.

India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other smaller nations, which have 1.8 billion people and some of the planet’s most densely populated cities, have so far reported relatively few coronavirus cases but experts fear they could be the next hotspots.

The dire economic effects are already much in evidence, with widespread lockdowns freezing most normal activity, Western factory orders cancelled and vast numbers of poor workers suddenly jobless.

“South …

Covid-19 - Couple Holds Zoom Wedding With Family, Friends

Covid-19: Couple Holds Zoom Wedding With Family, Friends

April 12, 2020 2:26 pm
A Montréal resident, Kiyani BBA has shared how her brother’s wedding was held online via Zoom with 45 people in attendance.

She explained that because of the Coronavirus pandemic, only the couple and witnesses were allowed into the room. However, they set up a Zoom so relatives and friends could witness as they exchanged vows and got married.

The groom’s sister who also an engineer said family members and the couple’s friends from France, CIV, Netherlands, SA, Calgary and other places joined the digital ceremony.

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She wrote; “Today was my

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Coronavirus Survives In The Air For Very Long

Coronavirus Survives In The Air For Very Long

April 11, 2020 6:03 am

A new study by a team of scientists at Beijing’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences has found that coronavirus can travel up to 13 feet (four meters) — twice the distance current guidelines say people should leave between themselves in public.

They reached the conclusion after examining air samples from hospital wards with COVID-19 patients.

The preliminary results of the investigation by the researchers were published Friday in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

They add to a growing debate on how the disease is transmitted, with the scientists themselves cautioning …

Virus Death Toll Tops 100,000 As Easter Kicks Off

Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 100,000 As Easter Kicks Off

April 10, 2020 6:09 pm

The global coronavirus death toll topped 100,000 Friday as Easter celebrations around the world kicked off in near-empty churches with billions of people stuck indoors to halt the pandemic’s deadly worldwide march.

The grim milestone came as the World Health Organization issued a dire warning that prematurely lifting lockdown restrictions — which have kept more than half the world’s population in lockdown — could spark a “deadly resurgence” of the disease.

The extraordinary measures from New York to New Delhi to Naples have seen businesses and schools closed in a desperate bid to halt the virus’s relentless spread and the …

Nigeria, South Africa Going Into Recession - World Bank

Nigeria, South Africa Going Into Recession: World Bank

April 10, 2020 7:15 am

The World Bank Group said on Thursday that Coronavirus will drive many African countries, such as Nigeria, South Africa and Angola into recession, the first for Sub-saharan bloc in 25 years.

In a statement, the bank said growth in Africa will fall sharply from 2.4 per cent in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1 per cent in 2020.

“While most countries in the region have been affected in different degrees by the pandemic, real gross domestic product growth is projected to fall sharply, particularly in the region’s three largest economies like Nigeria, Angola, and South Africa, as a result of persistently

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World Faces New 'Great Depression' As Virus Toll Mounts

World Faces New ‘Great Depression’ As Virus Toll Mounts

April 9, 2020 6:07 pm

World powers scrambled on Thursday to build a global response to the human tragedy and once-in-a-century economic collapse caused by the coronavirus epidemic, as the worldwide death toll topped 90,000.

In a locked-down New York, the UN Security Council was to meet on the pandemic for the first time. And, by video conference, EU finance ministers are wrangling over how to bail out their worst hit members Italy and Spain.

The US coronavirus death toll jumped to over 15,774, according to the Johns Hopkins University, with more than 430,000 cases.

New York State had recorded its single day record for …

Why Afro-Americans Are Dying At Higher Rates From Virus

Why Afro-Americans Are Dying At Higher Rates From Virus

April 8, 2020 6:13 pm

The new coronavirus isn’t biased about who it infects — so why does data emerging from some states suggest that African Americans are bearing the brunt of the pandemic in the US?

Experts say blacks are disproportionately impacted by underlying health conditions linked to poverty, face discrimination in medical care, and are more likely to work jobs that require them to leave their home.

“We know that blacks are more likely to have diabetes, heart disease, lung disease,” the nation’s top doctor, Surgeon General Jerome Adams told CBS News on Tuesday.

These chronic illnesses, which are in turn linked to …

Coronavirus Plunges World Economy Into Brutal Recession

Coronavirus Plunges World Economy Into Brutal Recession

April 8, 2020 6:11 pm

Measures imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus are pushing the world economy into a recession deeper and more painful than initially expected, even if a rebound is still on the cards for next year.

A week before the International Monetary Fund updates its forecasts for the global economy that will take into account the initial damage incurred since the coronavirus emerged in China at the start of the year, the first sets of data are coming in.

France’s central bank estimated Wednesday that the country’s economy contracted by around six percent in the first three months of 2020,

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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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New York Turns World’s Largest Cathedral Into Hospital

New York Turns World’s Largest Cathedral Into Hospital

April 7, 2020 7:14 am
New York City, under pressure with coronavirus cases, is planning to construct another temporary hospital in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine.

The Cathedral in Manhattan, the largest Anglican Cathedral in the world, is the seat of the Diocese of New York.

The City is looking up to the church as hospitals are running out of room for coronavirus patients.

Alternatives such as the USNS Comfort and temporary hospitals in a convention centre and Central Park are proving not to be enough.

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According to Anglican.ink, …

Spain Hits Over 13,000 Coronavirus Deaths

Spain Hits Over 13,000 Coronavirus Deaths

April 7, 2020 7:07 am

For four consecutive days, the number of Coronavirus deaths in Spain has nose-dived raising hope that the days of the virus in the country are numbered.

Monday’s increase of 637 deaths means 13,055 have died in total, BBC reports.

Spain has recorded over 135,000 confirmed cases of Coronavirus, the most in Europe, but new infections have been slowing.

In Italy, the number of new infections fell by 1,031 to 1,941 on Monday, but the death toll rose to 636 – more than 100 higher than the previous day.

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Motivate Doctors To Slow Down Brain Drain – NMA Urges FG

Rivers NMA Blasts FG Over Importation Of China Doctors

April 7, 2020 6:59 am
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), in Rivers State, has criticised the decision of the Federal Government to import 18 Chinese Doctors to fight the coronavirus.

The Rivers State NMA Chairperson, Dr. Obelebra Adebiyi, said the decision undermines the effort of health workers in Nigeria.

“Planned Chinese Doctors coming to are not at the instance of the Nigeria Doctors who have been doing their best in fighting the coronavirus. The doctors in Nigeria have been at the forefront of fighting the epidemic alongside other healthcare workers.

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