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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma has donated additional medical equipment to Africa to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Ma, through Twitter on Monday, said his second donation to Africa includes 500 ventilators, 200,000 suits and face shields, 2,000 thermometers, one million swabs,…
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A four-year-old Malayan tiger has tested positive for coronavirus in the United States, becoming the first of her kind to contract the disease.
The female tiger named Nadia was tested for Covid-19 after developing a dry cough at the Bronx Zoo in New York, according to Wildlife Conservation Society’…
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital ten days after he was diagnosed with coronavirus, according to reports.
Johnson, 55, has persistent symptoms including high temperature and was taken to hospital on Sunday evening on the advice of his doctor, BBC reports.
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A French doctor has issued an apology for suggesting that a possible coronavirus treatment/vaccine should first be tested in Africa.
Jean-Paul Mira, the head of the intensive care unit at the Cochin Hospital in Paris, made the controversial remarks during a television interview.
“If I could be…
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Kenyans and Africans on social media are up in arms after French doctors suggested that a potential coronavirus vaccine should be first tested in Africa.
Doctors Jean-Paul Mira and Camille Locht, in a television show, claimed that a trial for the vaccine would yield perfect results when done in…
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An Indian couple has named their recently born twins as Covid and Corona, coming at a time when the coronavirus (Covid-19) disease continues to wreak havoc around the world.
Speaking to the Press Trust of India, the couple said they decided to name the newborns Covid and Corona “in an effort to put…
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Ethiopia on Thursday announced it is developing a cure for coronavirus (Covid-19).
The country’s Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MoIT) said experts were developing what they termed as "a domestic treatment drug."
The two ministries, in a joint statement,…
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A class-action lawsuit accusing China of creating coronavirus (Covid-19) as a biological weapon to unleash on the world has been filed in the US.
The lawsuit was filed in March in Dallas, Texas federal court by conservative attorney Larry Klayman, his group Freedom Watch and Buzz Photos, a Texas-…
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11 children have tested positive for coronavirus in Uganda, raising the country's total number of infections to 44. Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, in a press briefing on Tuesday night, said the 11 kids are members of Watoto Choir and had been in isolation. “Eleven children of Watoto choir tested…
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Former president of the People’s Republic of Congo Yombi Opango has died of coronavirus in France.
Opango, who had lived in exile in France since 1997, passed away while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at a Paris hospital on Monday, his son Jean-Jacques confirmed.
French newspaper Les Echos…
