The United States on Sunday recorded 820 new coronavirus fatalities in the previous 24 hours, but the country’s total death count neared 90,000, a Johns Hopkins University tracker reported. The latest toll, marked at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Monday), was the lowest since 776 daily deaths were recorded on May 10, but the count ranged […]
A Somali governor and three bodyguards were killed in a suicide attack claimed by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group in the regional capital of Galkayo on Sunday, a security official said. The attacker rammed a scooter taxi into a car carrying Ahmed Muse Nur, the governor of the north-central Mudug province, and his security detail before […]
Japan dived into its first recession since 2015, according to official data Monday, with the world’s third-largest economy contracting by 0.9 percent in the first quarter as it wrestles with the fallout from the coronavirus. The drop in gross domestic product followed a 1.9-percent decline in the fourth quarter of 2019 as a tax hike […]
The death of a pregnant Algerian doctor from the COVID-19 disease after she was denied maternity leave has sparked an uproar and prompted the dismissal of a hospital director in Algeria. Health Minister Abderrahman Benbouzid sacked the director of the Ras El Oued hospital in eastern Algeria after Wafa Boudissa succumbed to COVID-19, a close […]
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is expected to announce the next phase of ease of lockdown today – Monday The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Sani Aliyu, made this known when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics on Sunday. The PTF members chaired by the Secretary to the Government […]
Kaduna State Government has re-adjusted the two-day window of the restriction of movement order, to allow residents to visit neighbourhood markets to purchase food and other essentials. A statement by the Managing Director of Kaduna Markets Development and Management Company, Muhammad Hafiz Bayero on Sunday, said that Wednesdays and Thursdays were now the two-day windows […]
A baby was born with the coronavirus in Russia’s Caucasus region, health officials were quoted by TASS news agency as saying on Sunday, to a mother who is also infected. The birth in the North Ossetia city of Beslan follows one in mid-April in Peru, which health officials there said was the second known case […]
British Physician and former Director at the World Health Organisation, Prof Karol Sikora, says there is a “real chance” that coronavirus will peter out before any vaccine is developed. Sikora, who made this known via Twitter on Saturday, however, stressed the need to keep maintaining social distancing and following all precautions outlined by health experts to curb […]
The Federal Government has impounded an aircraft owned by a British company for operating commercial flights into Nigeria without approval. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made this known on Sunday via his Twitter handle, @hadisirika. He said the company, Flair Aviation, was authorised to conduct humanitarian flights but was caught operating commercial flights. Sirika explained that […]
Some foreign airlines are allegedly planning to resume flights to Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt airports despite the ban on international commercial flights by the Federal Government in a bid to halt COVID-19 spread. Although some of the airlines said their plans could change, it was learnt on Saturday that some of the international carriers […]