Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of World Health Organisation (WHO), says an average of 80,000 new cases of COVID-19 are being reported daily since the beginning of April Ghebreyesus disclosed the figure in his speech at a news conference in Geneva. The speech was posted on WHO website. According to him, more than 3.5 million cases of COVID-19 and almost 250,000 deaths have now been reported to WHO. “But these are not just numbers –...
There is no chance of a rematch between world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and American Deontay Wilder going ahead without a crowd, the Briton’s promoter Frank Warren said on Wednesday. Fury overwhelmed Wilder in their Las Vegas rematch in February, seizing the WBC crown with a seventh round stoppage. They had previously fought to a draw in December 2018, and a third bout between the two was set for Las Vegas in July. But this...
The English Premier League season could be cancelled if clubs did not agree to play the remaining 92 fixtures in neutral venues amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an official said on Wednesday. Professional football has been suspended since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the United Kingdom suffering the highest death toll in Europe. Discussions are continuing about resuming matches. This was after clubs were told this month on a Premier League conference call that...
Another 649 COVID-19 patients have died, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in Britain to 30,076, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick, said on Wednesday. The figures include deaths in all settings, including hospitals, care homes and the wider community. Chairing the Downing Street daily briefing, Jenrick told reporters that 69,463 tests were carried out on Tuesday, with a total of 201,101 people having tested positive for the novel coronavirus...
Hundreds of Indian Police have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days, raising alarm among an over-stretched force as it attempts to enforce the world’s largest lockdown to contain the pandemic. Some three million police are trying to ensure that the vast majority of India’s 1.3 billion people stay home. TV footage early in the crisis showed the Police beating back migrant workers as they tried to board city buses to reach their villages,...
Gospel singer and songwriter, Osinachi Kalu Joseph a.k.a Sinach has become the first African to top the Billboard USA Christian songwriters chart. Sinach, is a senior worship leader at Loveworld Ministries (Christ Embassy) and is known for hit songs including `Way Maker,’ `He Did it Again,’ `I know who I Am,’ among others. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Billboard USA is the music industry standard record chart for songs published weekly by...
At least 90,000 health-care workers worldwide are believed to have been infected with COVID-19, and possibly twice that, amid reports of continuing shortages of protective equipment, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) said on Wednesday. The disease has killed more than 260 nurses, it said in a statement, urging authorities to keep more accurate records to help prevent the virus from spreading among staff and patients. The Geneva-based association said a month ago that 100...
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday said the world’s 1 billion people with disabilities are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic in terms of fatalities. “The share of Covid-19-related deaths in care homes – where older people with disabilities are overrepresented – ranges from 19 per cent to an astonishing 72 per cent,” he said in a video message. Guterres highlighted that persons with disabilities face a lack of accessible public health...
The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that no fewer than 40 million people across West Africa face “desperate food shortages in coming months”. Its spokesperson, Ms Elisabeth Byrs, gave the warning during a virtual news briefing. Byrs said restrictions imposed by countries to curb the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were adding to people’s vulnerability to hunger. She stated that populations displaced by armed conflict, and those that had endured climate change emergencies...
Germany’s top disease control official, Lothar Wieler warned on Tuesday that second and third waves of novel coronavirus infections could be on the horizon. Wieler, who is head of the Robert Koch Institute, a government agency, disclosed this to reporters in Berlin. “This is a pandemic. And in a pandemic, this virus will cause disease until 60 to 70 percent of the population is infected,” he said. A second wave will come “with great certainty,”...
