Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies pledged on Thursday to inject over $5 trillion into the global economy to limit job and income losses from the coronavirus and “do whatever it takes to overcome the pandemic.”Showing more unity than at any time since the G20 was created during[…]
The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for more “aggressive” action to curb the coronavirus in Southeast Asia, after the European Union, now at the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, moved to seal off its borders. Southeast Asia is facing a wave of infections that originate from an event at[…]
As the number of Co-VID19 or coronavirus infections across the globe steadily increases, dozens of countries have implemented plans to contain and limit its spread. This includes South Africa, where President Cyril Ramaphosa joined several European countries in declaring a national state of disaster on Sunday. In his announcement, Ramaphosa[…]
The coronavirus outbreak is now a pandemic, the World Health Organization declared, urging governments to step up containment efforts as the number of worldwide cases topped 120,000 and deaths exceeded 4,300. The United Nations body had previously stopped short of such a designation as the illness spread from China, with[…]
Governments around the world are scrambling to contain the spread of COVID-19, which is growing globally even as transmission in China, where the virus originated at the end of last year, continues to show signs of slowing. There are more than 93,000 cases around the world – the overwhelming majority[…]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the world was in “uncharted territory” as the number of people infected with the new coronavirus went past 89,000. The US reported six deaths from the coronavirus, as the outbreak that started in China continues to spread to new countries around the world and[…]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned the window of opportunity to stem the deadly coronavirus epidemic was “narrowing” amid concern about a surge in cases with no clear link to China, including in a range of countries in the Middle East. Iran’s health ministry reported one more death among 10 new[…]
A South African student trapped in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak is appealing for help from the government. Kamohelo Taole, a student at Hubei University in Wuhan, has called on the South African government to assist him get home. Taole says, “I’m terrified because[…]
The deadly coronavirus outbreak that has spread from China does not yet constitute a “pandemic”, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Sylvie Briand, head of WHO’s Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness, also stressed the importance of tackling unfounded rumours about the virus. A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a[…]
Mohammed Sohail was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia, a type of cancer that starts in blood-forming cells of the bone marrow, in 2010. He recalls the doctor at a private clinic in Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul telling him there was no treatment available for him in the country. At 16,[…]
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