U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that he has seen information indicating the Wuhan Institute of Virology is behind the coronavirus outbreak, but would not provide any details. Speaking with reporters from the White House Trump was asked if he has seen any information that gives him a “high degree of confidence” the virus originated in the Wuhan lab. “Yes I have,” Trump responded, adding that the “World Health Organisation should be ashamed of themselves.” When...

The death toll from COVID-19 reached nearly 60,200 in the U.S. on Wednesday and confirmed cases surpassed 1 million, according to Johns Hopkins University. Some models had suggested the U.S. would not reach this milestone until late summer. The shuttering businesses nationwide – restaurants, gyms, retail – has led the U.S. economy to shrink 4.8 percent in the first quarter. Amid a bleak financial outlook in which the U.S. economy saw its steepest drop since the Great Recession, a...

The U.S. state of New York will restart its economy after the peak of the coronavirus outbreak in a multi-phase manner, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday. The strategy is to first reopen the construction and manufacturing sectors, and the second phase will be evaluating businesses on a case-by-case basis, depending on how essential they are, said Cuomo at his daily briefing. There will be two weeks in between each phase to monitor the effects...

Save the Children International (SCI), an NGO, has called on the Federal and State Governments to take necessary measures to halt community transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Mr. Isah Ibrahim, its Nutrition Advocacy Advisor, Kaduna State Field Office, made the appeal in a statement on Thursday in Kaduna. According to him, community transmission of COVID-19 can have an unimaginable impact on children. ”More preventive actions need to be taken to ensure the protection and well-being of...