British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday faced a call for an inquiry into his government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis after failing to fully explain partial death data, limited testing or the lack of equipment for hospitals. The novel coronavirus outbreak, the worst health crisis since the 1918 influenza pandemic, has left governments across […]

A team from Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri University Hospital will test for the new coronavirus at a refugee camp on Wednesday after a resident was found to be infected, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said. A Palestinian refugee from Syria at the Wavel refugee camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley was transferred to hospital […]

Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and prime minister as well as current deputy chairman of the country’s security council, said Tuesday he suspected a supplier’s agreement was behind a plunge in oil prices. US oil prices crashed to unprecedented lows on Monday as futures in New York ended in negative territory for the first time […]

US President Donald Trump announced what he described as a “temporary suspension of immigration into the United States” on Tuesday. But the executive order would bar only those seeking permanent residency, not temporary workers. Trump said he would be placing a 60-day pause on the issuance of green cards in an effort to limit competition […]

France registered 531 more deaths from coronavirus infections on Tuesday, bringing the total to 20,796, the fourth-highest tally in the world, while the pace of increase of fatalities slowed again. READ ALSO: COVID-19: We believe in science, logic, Makinde tells NCDC, WHO during visit The number of people in hospital declined for the seventh day in […]