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Reuters – Rescue workers pulled a 10th body from the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium on Monday, as officials vowed to keep searching for any possible survivors five days…
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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.
People wait in line to get food distributed by the National Guard in Chelsea, Mass., on April 16.
Harvard researchers found areas with more poverty, people of color and crowded housing had higher mortality rates for the coronavirus.
Areas with \"widespread economic segregation and heavy concentrations of poverty, people of color, and crowded housing\" had higher mortality rates compared with everywhere else from the beginning of the year through April 15, they found.
\"These are communities in which people may be working 'essential jobs,' where they're unable to practice physical distancing,\" Chen tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
[Nation] The Health ministry on Sunday announced 972 more Covid-19 cases in Kenya, raising the country's count since the first case in March to 70,245.
Total confirmed cases = 6,269 (new cases = 173)
Total recoveries = 1,898 (new = 125)
Total deaths = 31
Active cases = 4,340
\tFigures valid as of May 21, 2020
May 20: Cases pass 6,000 mark, govt eyes COVID-Organics
\tGhana’s case count passed 6,000 mark reaching 6,096 on Tuesday according to tallies released by the Ghana Health Service.
Total confirmed cases = 6,069
Total recoveries = 1,773
Active cases = 4,292
\tFigures valid as of May 19, 2020
May 19: govt to explain boom recoveries and address hot spot case management
\tNo new figures were released on Monday but the government through the Information Ministry will release new tallies at a press conference scheduled for later today.
May 17: 5,735 cases, prez fact-checked on testing ‘record’
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5735 (new cases = 97)
Total recoveries = 1,754 (new = 294)
Total deaths = 29 (new = 5)
Active cases = 3,952
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 16, 2020
\tGhana maintained her spot as West Africa’s most impacted after the Health Ministry released latest figures yesterday.
AFP Fact-check – Ghana’s leader falsely claims his country fronts COVID-19 testing
May 16: 5,530 cases, jumbo recoveries
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,638 (new cases = 108)
Total recoveries = 1,460 (new recoveries = 1086)
Total deaths = 24 (new deaths = 0)
Active cases = 4,150
\tGhana recorded a boost in recoveries with a record 1,086 discharges authorities reported early Saturday.
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April 14: 5,530 cases, 13 of 16 regions infected
\tTotal confirmed cases = 5,530 (new cases = 122)
Total recoveries = 674 (new recoveries = 160)
Active cases = 4,832
\tThirteen of the 16 regions in the country have recorded cases of the disease.
Twenty-six people were killed in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said Saturday, in the latest violence to hit the West African nation.
Friday's attack targeted a Fulani village named Binedama in the volatile Mopti region, said Aly Barry, an official from Tabital Pulaaku, a Fulani association in Mali.
Central Mali - an ethnic mosaic - has become one of the flashpoints of conflict in the country, with regular jihadist attacks on military targets and occasional intercommunal fighting.
A local government official in Koro, a subdivision of the Mopti region, told AFP that the attack on Binedama occurred on Friday afternoon.
The region has also seen several massacres recently, including a militant attack on rural villages which left 12 people dead in April.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The governorate of Kef has reported one additional fatality due to COVID-19, bringing to 102 the death toll in the region since the outbreak of the pandemic, said head of health programmes in Kef Abdelbaki Jomni.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An estimated 2.1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week despite the gradual reopening of businesses around the country, bringing the running total since the coronavirus shutdowns took hold in mid-March to about 41 million, the government said Thursday.
The figures underscored the continuing damage to businesses and livelihoods from the outbreak that has now killed at least 100,000 people in the U.S., more than the number of Americans lost in the Vietnam and Korean wars combined, and more than 33 times the death toll on 9/11.
In this May 7, 2020 file photo, a pedestrian walks by The Framing Gallery, closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Grosse Pointe, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Elsewhere around the world, India saw another record daily jump in coronavirus cases, while Russia reported a steady increase in its caseload, even as the city of Moscow and provinces across the vast country moved to ease restrictions in sync with the Kremlin’s political agenda.
In Russia, President Vladimir Putin announced earlier this week that the country’s postponed Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi defeat in World War II will be held June 24, declaring the nation has passed the peak of the outbreak.
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French unemployment claims jumped 22% in April, as 843,000 more people sought work and the virus lockdown prevented companies from hiring.
A Cuban medical brigade arrived in Guinea-Bissau to assist in the fight against COVID-19.
The group of 21 health workers included 11 doctors and 10 nurses are also expected in Guinea Conakry, where the south American country already fought Ebola between 2014 and 2016, and with which Cuba has several cooperation agreements.
The Cuban doctors’ trip is part of government’s strategy to combat the new coronavirus pandemic in Guinea-Bissau, which recorded over 1,600 confirmed cases since March, with death toll at 22 as of June 29.
For this reason we should not be surprised that the Republic of Cuba is sending a medical team to help us in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Almost 3,000 Cubans medics have since the outbreak of the pandemic been deployed to about 28 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
\tFirst-time Member of Parliament Zavia Mayne, who represents the rural constituency of St Ann South West, is banking on constituents to keep true to what he said was their promise to back him with votes once he “performed” in his capacity as their...
With 12 deaths, 183 cases and 2,048 tests done up to Saturday, the Ministry of Public Health continues to face questions about its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
No COVID-19 testing was done on Friday and Saturday due to “problems” at the National Public Health Reference Laboratory (NPHRL), Stabroek News was told.
The St Joseph Mercy Hospital has its own PCR machine and the Public Health Ministry should have been able to make an arrangement with it to enable continuous testing.
It is unclear what the Public Health Ministry has instructed in relation to acquiring samples for testing following deaths particularly of the elderly and those with chronic underlying diseases.
In line with World Health Organisation warnings, there can be no letting down of the guard against the Coronavirus and where new cases are discovered there must be aggressive contact tracing, testing and the requisite facilities to ensure adequate treatment and isolation.
TOKYO, Japan (AP) Soldiers used boats to rescue residents as floodwaters flowed down streets in southern Japanese towns hit by heavy rains that were expanding across the region yesterday. At least 55 people have died and a dozen remain missing.
The country’s second wave of COVID-19 infections has seen cases of the respiratory disease spike by as much as 10 000 in a single day
By MATT OTT, TED SHAFFREY and LISA MARIE PANE, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks surged on Wall Street to their highest levels since the business shutdowns took hold in the U.S. over two months ago, climbing on optimism Tuesday about the reopening economy even as the nation’s official death toll from the coronavirus closed in on 100,000, a number President Donald Trump once predicted the country would never see.
In a largely symbolic move, the New York Stock Exchange trading floor in Manhattan reopened for the first time in two months, with plexiglass barriers, masks and a reduced number of traders to adhere to 6-foot (2-meter) social distancing rules.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has presided over the state with the highest death toll from the scourge, rang the bell to set off trading at the NYSE.
In hard-hit New York, Cuomo reported a one-day total Tuesday of 73 deaths, the lowest figure in months, and down from a peak of nearly 800.
Brazil has about 375,000 coronavirus infections — second only to the 1.6 million cases in the U.S. — and has counted over 23,000 deaths, but many fear Brazil’s true toll is much higher.
