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The independent NHS Race and Health Observatory is urging the Muslim community to use new rapid testing kits during Ramadan to help detect further cases of Covid-19. The holy month of Ramadan starts from Monday 12 April, coinciding with the easing of lockdown measures and the availability of twice a week, lateral flow tests to […]
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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
In the lawsuit, filed in the Port-of-Spain Supreme Court Registry on Tuesday, lawyers representing the mother, who cannot be named to protect her daughter’s identity, claimed that the owner of the school and her staff were negligent in the incident.
According to the statement of case, the incident occurred on January 9 as the child was attending her second survival swimming class.
The lawyers noted that while the child recovered, her mother experienced long-term trauma with the incident.
They claimed that after they first threatened legal action, the owner of the school improperly obtained a copy of the child’s medical report and posted it on its Facebook page identifying the minor.
Through the lawsuit, the mother is seeking compensation over the incident inclusive of a rebate on the $650 she paid for her daughter to be registered and to participate in the classes.
New, stricter measures have been implemented in New York this week in order to curb the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic. Ashley Liotus reports…
National Stop the Violence Alliance, Inc. kicks off virtual extravaganza on Saturday, May 30, 2020.
Big Hookz, Max Mazzim, and Andra Day
Camden, NJ — National Stop the Violence Alliance, Inc., a national nonprofit organization, presents its National Virtual Extravaganza: Prom, Graduation, and Essential Workers Virtual Extravaganza: Prom, Graduation, and Essential Workers Celebration
WHEN:
Saturday, May 30, 2020 7pm to 10pm
WHERE:
Online via Facebook Live, Vimeo Live, YouTube Live, and Instagram Live Attendees should register at www.urbanationtv.com for more this event, two-time Grammy-nominated platinum recording artist, Andra Day, will virtually perform her signature song, “Rise Up”.
Lou Cannon of DC FOP Lodge #1 and Dr. Peter DeNoble of the New Jersey Doctor-Patient Alliance will both address the attendees on behalf of front liners.
“We are so honored to have two-time Grammy-nominated platinum recording artist and powerhouse, Andra Day, vocally rendering hope to the world during these times of doubt,” says Dr. Stephné R. Coney, Founder and CEO of National Stop the Violence Alliance, Inc. and host of UrbaNation TV and Roundtable.
About National Stop the Violence Alliance, Inc.:
National Stop the Violence Alliance, Inc. is an international powerhouse, boasting support from
athletes, visual/performing artists, actors, other nonprofit organizations, governmental officials, public safety agencies, and communities nationwide.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Eight out of every 100 people in Angola expressed the probability of having come into contact with the Sars-Cov-2 virus (Covid-19), as part of the rapid serological tests that have been taking place in the country since last July.
On Monday night, May 24, at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue South in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an onlooker took a video of a Black man, who’s now been identified at George Floyd, being forced to the ground by four cops.
One officer pinned Floyd to the ground by shoving his knee into his neck.
“For five minutes, we watched a white officer press his knee into a Black man’s neck.
Attorney Ben Crump, representing the man’s family, noted Floyd was reportedly approached by police for allegedly using a counterfeit bill at a nearby store.
“We will seek justice for the family of George Floyd, as we demand answers from the (Minneapolis) Police Department.
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Submitted March 18, 1898.
Decided April 25, 1898.
At June term 1896 of the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, the plaintiff in error was indicted by a grand jury composed entirely of white men for the crime of murder. On the 15th day of June he made a motion to quash the indictment, which was in substance as follows, omitting repetitions and retaining the language of the motion as nearly as possible:
Now comes the defendant in this cause, Henry Williams by name, and moves the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, to quash the indictment herein filed and upon which it is proposed to try him for the alleged offence of murder:
1. Because the laws by which the grand jury was selected, organized, summoned and charged, which presented the said indictment, are unconstitutional and repugnant to the spirit and letter of the Constitution of the United States of America, Fourteenth Amendment thereof, in this, that the Constitution prescribes the qualifications of electors, and that to be a juror one must be an elector; that the Constitution also requires that those offering to vote shall produce to the election officers satisfactory evidence that they have paid their taxes; that the legislature is to provide means for enforcing the Constitution, and in the exercise of this authority enacted section 3643, also section 3644 of 1892, which respectively provide that the election commissioners shall appoint three election managers, and that the latter shall be judges of the qualifications of electors, and are required to examine on oath any person duly registered and offering to vote touching his qualifications as an elector. And then the motion states that the registration roll is not prima facie evidence of an electors right to vote, but the list of those persons having been passed upon by the various district election managers of the county to compose the registration book of voters as named in section 2358 of said code of 1892, and that there was no registration books of voters
Commercial banks recorded about Shs685.7b in non-performing loans for the period ended December 31, 2019, according to details compiled from annual performance results.
In the period under review, according to details Stanbic Bank, which is Uganda's largest bank by assets, registered the biggest share of non-performing loans, posting Shs120b in 2019.
Dfcu Bank, which inherited a large trove of bad loans from defunct Crane Bank, registered a slight growth in non-performing loans from Shs80.8b to Shs89b in the period while Centenary Bank, which has been expanding across Uganda in the last five years, registered a substantial growth from Shs39.8b in 2018 to Shs60.8b.
Orient Bank, which recorded a reduction in net losses to Shs1b from Shs5.5b in the period, registered a leap in non-performing loans from Shs14.8b in 2018 to Shs60b in 2019.
During the period, DTB registered Shs46.6b in non-performing loans from Shs27b in 2018 while Housing Finance Bank posted Shs36.35b from Shs20.6b in 2018.
United Bank for Africa, which in the period recovered from years of losses, registered the least amount of non-performing loans reducing its stock from 60.5m in 2018 to Shs24.7m in 2019.
Maputo — Mozambique's National Director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, announced in Maputo on Thursday that, with the diagnosis of a further six cases of the coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease Covid-19, the number of confirmed cases in Mozambique has risen from 156 to 162.
Speaking at the Health Ministry's daily press conference on the Covid-19 crisis, Marlene said that, to date, 7,063 suspect cases have been tested, 294 of them in the previous 24 hours.
90 of the samples tested came from Maputo City, 73 from Maputo province, 34 from Cabo Delgado, 31 from Gaza, 27 from Sofala, 25 from Niassa, 11 from Tete, and three from Inhambane.
The distribution of the 162 confirmed cases, by province, is as follows: Cabo Delgado, 88; Maputo City, 40; Maputo province, 20; Sofala, eight; Tete, two; Inhambane, two; Manica, one; Gaza, one.
Of the positive cases, 126 are men and 36 are women.
Atlanta Hip-Hop stars, Killer Mike and T.I. joined Mayor Keshia Lance Bottoms emotionally, urging ATLiens not to burn down their city as protests erupted in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other victims at the hands of law enforcement.
Killer Mike, who is the son of a retired Atlanta city police officer and a social activist, fought back the tears, and he pleaded with peaceful protesters “not to burn your own house down” while also sympathizing with why they feel the way they do.
“I’m the son of an Atlanta city police officer, my cousin is a police officer…I got a lot of love and respect for police officers down to the original eight [Black] police officers in Atlanta that, even after becoming police, had to dress in a YMCA because white officers didn’t want to get dressed with ni**ers.
T.I. also had a viral moment, while his heart was in the right place, Tip got clowned for referring to Atlanta as “Wakanda” while also urging Atlanta protesters to not burn down the city.
Yesterday, when I heard there was a rumor about violent protests in Atlanta, I did what a mother would do: I called my son, and I said, ‘where are you?’
Biden Says ‘We Must Not Allow This Pain To Destroy Us’ of Violence in U.S. PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden is seen at War Memorial Plaza during Memorial Day, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Castle, Delaware, U.S. May 25, 2020.
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(Reuters) – Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sunday called for protesters against police brutality not to turn to violence as unrest flared in U.S. cities overnight.
Biden issued a statement just after midnight as protesters in several major U.S. cities vented outrage at the death of a black man shown on video gasping for breath as a white Minneapolis policeman knelt on his neck.
Biden will face President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
Biden’s remarks echoed a statement on Saturday by prominent black civil rights activist and U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia.
Rapid test kits that were recently donated to the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) will not be used to make a diagnosis or identify a person infected with COVID-19, according to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr.
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The Food and Drug Administration said late Thursday that several batches of the drug metformin tested positive for unsafe levels of N-Nitrosodimethylamine, a possible cancer-causing chemical that can form as a manufacturing byproduct.
People with Type 2 diabetes use metformin alone or with other drugs to help control their blood sugar levels.
Patients should continue taking metformin drugs until their doctor can prescribe a replacement, the FDA said in a statement, noting the risks of discontinuing.
Regulators are still assessing whether the recalls will lead to shortages of metformin, but noted that a number of other companies make generic versions of the drugs that don’t appear to be affected by the issue.
Drugmaker Apotex Corp. recalled its extended-release metformin distributed in the U.S. earlier this week after the FDA found contamination in one lot.
Members of Congress have called a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report on the racial and ethnic deaths related to the coronavirus, “lazy.”
According to BuzzFeed, Congress asked the CDC to collect national data on the race and ethnicity of coronavirus cases and deaths and set Wednesday as a deadline.
The director of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield, sent the report to Congress on March 15, which includes a link to the CDC’s data on coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S. However, the data only includes racial and ethnic information on less than half of the country’s 1.7 million positive cases.
The report also includes a page on hospitalizations broken down by race and ethnicity, but that page only includes data from specific network hospitals in 14 states.
Redfield did say in the report that CDC data does suggest “a disproportionate burden of illness and death among racial and ethnic minority groups,” adding that “studies are underway to confirm these data.”
The Latest on the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck (all times Eastern):
WASHINGTON — Several hundred people shouting “Black Lives Matter” and “I can’t breathe” have converged on the White House for a second straight day to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and President Donald Trump’s response.
ATLANTA — Atlanta’s mayor has announced a curfew will be in effect from 9 p.m. Saturday to sunrise Sunday following violence that erupted in the city during demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
CHICAGO — Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in downtown Chicago hours after protesters clashed overnight with police during a protest over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
LAS VEGAS — Police in Las Vegas say 80 protesters were arrested and 12 police officers injured during violence Friday that followed a peaceful protest over the death of George Floyd after he was restrained by Minneapolis police.
Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee on his neck for several minutes, leading to protests in cities across the U.S.
BOSTON — The mayor of Boston hosted a prayer vigil with clergy and the city’s police commissioner to honor the memory of George Floyd.
By Deena Beasley
(Reuters) – People are hitting the beach as coronavirus restrictions start to ease and summer begins in the northern hemisphere, but access might be limited and public health officials still urge caution, including continued physical distancing.
While rules vary across the world, here is what you would find at Los Angeles County beaches like Santa Monica and Malibu:
* Check local restrictions before heading to a beach.
THE BEACH IS GENERALLY LOW RISK…
Spending time outdoors is a low-risk activity in the era of the coronavirus.
“People have been cooped up for several weeks now,” said Dr. Timothy Brewer, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
“Going to visit beaches or mountains are relatively lower-risk activities compared to being around people in an enclosed indoor space like a store or a theater.”
Chamber supports plan to open economy next week
Friday, May 29, 2020 0:01
By KEVIN ROTICH
KNCCI president Richard Ngatia.
PHOTO | SALATON NJAU
The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) has backed plans by the President to reopen the economy, saying the move will ease members’ cash flow problems.
Lobby’s president Richard Ngatia said plans were underway to ensure employees are provided with protective gears such as face masks and hand sanitisers as economy reopens.
“KNCCI implores upon President Uhuru Kenyatta to gradually reopen the economy,” he said, adding the lobby would ensure hospitality industry employees were tested for Covid-19 before being allowed to resume work.
On Saturday, President Uhuru Kenyatta hinted at a possibility of relaxing measures to curb the virus.
IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE that the government needed to formulate a rapid response to the coronavirus pandemic...
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The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has urged the Muslim community to exercise social distancing and stay at home during the upcoming Eid celebration, saying the day could become a \"super-spreading event\".
In a statement on Friday, the MJC asked the community not to gather during the moon sighting, not visit their families on Eid, and instead use technology to create \"special family moments\".
\"Eid can potentially become a super-spreading event which could result in many more people dying, especially if people disobey lockdown regulations and start visiting family.
\"Guidance for performing Eid salaah at home has already been given, however, it will lose its effect if people start visiting each other at home,\" the MJC said.
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The MJC also recommended that families do not gather for their Eid meal and instead practice physical distancing to prevent risks associated with Covid-19.
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The number of corporate deals in East Africa went up by a fifth in the first four months of the year compared to a similar period last year, with Kenya accounting for two thirds of the disclosed agreements.
Analysis by advisory firm IM Burbidge Capital shows the number stood at 31 for the four months, compared to 26 last year.
\"Deal activity in April brought the total number of deals for the year thus far to 31 with a total disclosed deal value of about $360 million (Sh38.5 billion), most of these being private equity investments,” said IM Burbidge in the report.
IM Burbidge expects firms that are providing critical services during the virus crisis to attract more investor interest, offering hope that the deal pipeline will not dry up in coming months as a result of the travel restrictions and capital drought.
The value of disclosed deals last year stood at $847.4 million (Sh90.7 billion) in the first four months, largely on the back of a Sh51.7 billion deal in January 2019 by Indonesian oil giant Medco Energi to buy London-listed Ophir Energy.
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Nike‘s never been afraid to try anything new and innovate its legendary sneakers.
And nothing’s changed with the announcement of the brand’s Space Hippie collection.
Source: Nike / Nike
At least 85% of each Space Hippie shoe is constructed from a special Flyknit variation called rPoly– an eco-friendly material made from recycled plastic bottles, T-shirts, and yarn scraps.
The recycled kicks are Nike’s latest push for its Move To Zero initiative in an effort to lessen its carbon footprint and preserve the earth.
Space Hippie 01, 02, 03, and 04 drop on SNKRS and SNEAKERS apps, select global Nike doors, and select retailers on June 11.
On Friday, police arrested Omar Jimenez, a Black CNN reporter, for doing his job before they arrested the officers who killed George Floyd.
On Wednesday, a white woman identified on Twitter as Jennifer attacked Black protestors with a knife because she valued products from Target over people’s lives and safety.
On Tuesday, Amy Cooper, a white woman, went viral for her dangerous display of performative racism where she falsified a crime and called the cops on a Black man who kindly asked her to leash her dog.
On Monday, George Floyd was killed by a white police officer who boldly and unflinchingly suffocated him to death.
Black folks are in a constant state of mourning, from Breonna Taylor to Ahmaud Arbery to Tony McDade — millions of Black men and women have been killed unjustly at the hands of white Americans.
While South Africa and the world fights Covid-19 putting strain on the health system, the Chatsworth community have banded together to start up a free Covid-19 day clinic.
The coronavirus pandemic is hard for everyone, but it is especially challenging for people with eating disorders.
The isolation, anxiety, depression, and even symptoms of the disease can increase stress and disrupt already established healthy routines.
If you need professional help, you can look into different treatment options for bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders.
Eating disorders often appear with other mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression.
Answer: one moment at a time.
The Triad’s doctors, nurses and medical staff were honored Tuesday with an aerial salute to thank them for their hard work during the coronavirus pandemic.
The flyover was conducted by The Bandit Flight Team and sponsored by the North Carolina Healthcare Association WXII12 and The Triad CW.
The 20-minute “Frontline Flyover” delivered a “signature smoke salute” to healthcare workers at six Triad hospitals, which included Cone Hospital.
“Turning on the smoke is our way to say thank you,” said Jim Kilpatrick, a member of the Bandit Flight Team.
Six planes, including sporting aircraft and Russian Yaks, flew over each hospital in delta formation.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said Saturday she was “shaken” by President Donald Trump’s threat about unleashing “vicious dogs” on people protesting the death of George Floyd, saying it called up associations of segregationist violence.
Bowser said at a press briefing that Trump’s reference to “vicious dogs” was “no subtle reminder to African Americans of segregationists who let dogs out on women, children and innocent people in the South.”
Trump also claimed that Bowser, who is Black, failed to mobilize metro police to aid the Secret Service in protecting the White House, which was briefly shut down during Friday’s protests.
“The D.C. Mayor, who is always looking for money help, wouldn’t let the D.C. Police get involved,” Trump tweeted.
Bowser said local police “were doing their jobs from the start” and coordinated with the Secret Service as well as U.S. Park Police.
Los Angeles City Mayor Commemorates First Shipment of N95 Masks from Honeywell 24-Million Mask Deal
Los Angeles frontline responders need protection, medical supplies such as masks and gloves are in high demand during this viral pandemic.
The mission found on the LovLa.org website states, “Through supply chain optimization, city purchasing, and generous donations, Logistics Victory LA facilitates a clear path for medical service providers on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis to access critical supplies, such as isolation gowns, gloves, N95 respirators, face shields, thermometers and other medical essentials.”
Leaders within the LovLa initiative include Mayor Garcetti, Executive Director Gene Seroka, and the General Manager of the city’s General Service Tony Royster who oversees the warehouse that holds the masks supply.
According to the L.A. County Health Service COVID-19 Dashboard, from May 18 to May 24, medical facilities countywide had zero personal protective equipment (PPE such as N95 masks, face shields, and gloves coming through the emergency management system pipeline.
With Medical beds and supplies fluctuating, the shipment of N95 masks are arriving in a time of severe need.
