Qatar on Saturday confirmed the first death in the country due to the coronavirus, Anadolu reports. A Bangladeshi national, who was suffering from chronic diseases, died of the virus, known as COVID-19, the country’s Health Ministry said in a statement. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases surged to 509, as 28 more people tested positive, while 45 patients have so far recovered and been discharged from hospitals since […]
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Pakistan has requested an emergency loan disbursement from the International Monetary Fund to help fight the coronavirus under the fund’s Rapid Financing Instrument program. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva did not identify the size of the loan in a statement on Friday. However, under the program, Pakistan would be able to borrow up to its full quota – about $2.76 billion – over two years, or $1.43 billion […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed reports that Washington Gov. Jay Inslee invoked football player Tom Brady — a favorite of the president’s — while trying to get him to do more to fight the coronavirus. The Washington Post reported Thursday: After Trump told governors that his administration was ready to be the “backup” for states in crisis, Inslee spoke up and said to the president, […]
Russia has 182 new cases of coronavirus, according to the country’s official tally. Most of the new cases were recorded in Moscow. This, as Russia shutters international flights to stop the spread of the virus. The new infections bring the nation’s tally to 840. The vast majority of the new cases, 136, were reported in Moscow. The Russian government announced on Thursday that it would ban […]
A US Marine has become the first confirmed carrier of the coronavirus within the Pentagon’s walls, with the US military announcing that a serviceman has gone into self-isolation after testing positive this week. The officer’s test for Covid-19 came back positive earlier this week, Captain Monica Witt, a spokesman for the US Marine Corps, confirmed Wednesday, according to Defense One. The Marine is believed to have […]
An Algerian appeals court on Wednesday upheld 15-year and 12-year sentences for two former prime ministers jailed in corruption cases that were brought in response to mass protests against the ruling elite, Reuters reports. The court in Algiers also halved five-year prison sentences for two former industry ministers and reduced the prison terms of prominent businessmen. Former prime ministers Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal were jailed […]
Syria confirmed its first coronavirus case yesterday, after a long period of denial that it had any such cases. Health Minister Nizar Al-Yaziji identified the patient as a 20-year-old woman who had recently returned from abroad. All “necessary measures” are being taken, including medical checks and quarantine for 14 days. The official confirmation of this case comes after weeks of various reports – including some from […]
Iraq confirmed three more deaths from coronavirus in Baghdad on Sunday, bringing the country’s total fatalities to 20, according to the health ministry, Anadolu Agency reports. A ministry statement said 19 people tested positive for the virus over the past 24 hours, taking the overall infections to 233, while 57 people have recovered from the disease. As precautionary measures due to the coronavirus, most of Iraq’s […]
An elderly male died from the novel coronavirus, according to Israeli health officials late Friday. The Health Ministry said the patient, 88, was diagnosed last week with the virus known as COVID-19 at a hospital in West Jerusalem. The death is the first from the virus in Israel and officials said the health of 14 of 705 confirmed cases are serious. OPINION: Where did Israel’s Mossad […]
Sudan confirmed its second case of coronavirus on Friday in the capital Khartoum, as Khartoum state announced a range of measures to prevent the spread of the disease. The case was a foreign man in his 40s working for an international organisation, and he and his family were receiving the required health care, state news agency SUNA reported. Khartoum state has decided to ban all mass […]
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has confirmed the US border will be closed to non-essential travel in the near future and previewed a hefty aid package to individuals and small businesses affected by the coronavirus epidemic. Canadians “will no longer be able to cross the border for recreation and tourism,” Trudeau announced on Wednesday in a press conference, echoing the words of US President Donald Trump earlier […]
USA TODAY Sports Tom Brady has confirmed he’s leaving the New England Patriots in an emotional post on Twitter. More to follow… Read more at The Daily Beast. Source
Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced on Friday that two people had tested positive for Covid-19 in Miranda State. Both had recently arrived from Spain, and all passengers who shared the flights have been ordered into quarantine. In response, the government ordered the suspension of all school and university activities and the use of face masks in public transport. On Thursday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro decreed a […]
Over the past week, Wal-Marts across the country have been overwhelmed by panicked shoppers stocking up on toilet paper and other non-essentials as the coronavirus hysteria has rattled communities coast to coast, in many cases before a single incidence of community spread had even been detected. With many stores running out of stock before new shipments can arrive (some due to a mix of panic-buying and […]
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US President Donald Trump shared a table with a Brazilian official that has since tested positive for Covid-19, the White House confirmed, after two others present for the same visit were found to carry the illness. Trump came into contact with the official during a meeting with a Brazilian delegation at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last weekend, Trump’s physician Sean Conley said in a statement […]
Turkey confirmed three more coronavirus cases on Friday, raising the tally to five, Anadolu Agency reports. “After our first two cases, we confirmed three new cases who came in contact with them and were from the same family. All five cases are directly related,” said Fahrettin Koca in a news conference. Koca said Turkey has banned flights to 14 countries as part of measures to stem the coronavirus […]
The UK Ministry of Defense has confirmed that a British serviceman was killed in a barrage of rockets fired at a joint base in Iraq, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Two American soldiers also perished in the attack. “Last night’s attack on UK and coalition personnel was a cowardly and retrograde act,” UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in a statement after the […]
Three coalition service members have been killed and another 12 wounded in a rocket attack on Camp Taji, the Iraqi base outside Baghdad that hosts US troops, Operation Inherent Resolve has confirmed. A total of 18 rockets struck the base on Wednesday, the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) said in a statement. The dead and wounded have not been officially identified, pending the […]
Lebanon’s Rafic Hariri University (RHU) Hospital has today confirmed its first death from coronavirus, the Daily Star reported. In a statement, the Health Ministry confirmed that the patient was a 56-year-old Lebanese citizen who travelled via airplane from Egypt to Lebanon on 20 February. He was initially treated at the Notre Dame de Secours Hospital in Byblos, a coastal town in the north of Lebanon, but […]
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has confirmed that the U.S. Air Force decided to purchase its newest A-29 light attack aircraft. SNC was awarded an undefinitized contracting action by the U.S. Air Force to provide A-29 aircraft ground support equipment, pilot training (including difference training and instructor pilot upgrade training), contractor logistic support, aircraft sparing and sustainment for the Combat Air Advisor mission for Air Force Special […]
Egypt confirmed the first fatality due to the coronavirus in the country after a German citizen died of the disease, according to the country’s health ministry, Anadolu reports. In a statement, Egypt’s Health Ministry said the 60-year-old German citizen showing the symptoms of the disease was hospitalized after he arrived in the city Hurghada on Friday. Later, he was brought under intensive care and he died of the coronavirus on Sunday, it […]
Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, As questions swirl about the Fed’s independence Fed Chair Powell has been busy trying to explain his reason for the “emergency” 50bps rate cut. At Best, The Fed Is Simply A Flawed Institution Regardless of what he says Fed Chair Powell has confirmed the Fed plans to continue its role as the great enabler. This means central banks […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) took place last week at National Harbor, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. On Saturday, convention host the American Conservative Union (ACU) announced via a press release on social media that at least one attendee has tested positive for COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. The infection occurred prior to the conference, the press release states, meaning the individual […]