The coronavirus pandemic has gained another grim milestone on Monday as the world surpassed 20 million recorded cases of the ravaging infection that began late last year in China. According to the latest updates, the number as of 2215 GMT was 20,002,577 cases, with 733,842 deaths recorded. In yet another staggering landmark, the death toll is expected…
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The number of coronavirus cases has crossed 19 million globally pushing many nations to further ratchet up restrictions in the battle against the ravaging pandemic. The world’s hardest-hit country, the United States, has seen a major resurgence since the end of June, adding 2,060 deaths in 24 hours alone on Thursday, a tracker by Johns Hopkins University…
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President Donald Trump has issued executive orders that would ban the social media apps TikTok and WeChat from conducting business transactions with other US groups in 45 days if they are not sold by their Chinese-owned parent companies. According to Yahoo News, the orders come after the Trump administration deemed apps from Chinese software companies national…
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The US Government is l’ooking at’ banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok, over national security concerns. Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of state suggested the plan during an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday, July 6 after he was asked whether the country should be considering a ban on Chinese social media apps, “especially TikTok.” He…
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According to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Saturday, the novel coronavirus has killed at least 494,337 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019. The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of…
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On Friday, the World Health Organization warned of a “new and dangerous phase” of the novel coronavirus pandemic despite the disease’s accelerating spread across the globe. The warning came as it emerged the virus was present in Italy in December, months before its first confirmed cases and about the same time as the disease was…
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On Thursday, the total number of people that have died from coronavirus complications surpassed 450,000 after the toll doubled in just a month and a half, according to reports from Johns Hopkins University. The tally noted that a total of 450,004 people have died from the disease out of more than 8 million cases reported across…
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On Saturday June 13, few districts in Beijing were placed under lockdown after authorities confirmed six new domestic coronavirus cases, fueling fears of a resurgence in local transmission. According to Aljazeera, people were prevented from leaving their homes at 11 residential estates in south Beijing’s Fengtai district after most of the cases were linked to a nearby meat…
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According to a preliminary study by researchers at Boston University and Harvard, a surge in hospital visits and internet searches related to COVID-19 symptoms from the Chinese city of Wuhan suggests the virus may have been circulating since August 2019. The pandemic, which has been linked to a virus that crossed over from animals to…
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According to an AFP tally of official sources on Sunday, the coronavirus pandemic has killed 400,000 people since it emerged in China late last year. A total of 400,052 deaths have now been recorded — a figure that has doubled in the past month and a half. While almost half of the deaths have been…
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