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COVID-19: China deports foreigner for abusing health officers

Chinese authorities have ordered a foreign national to be deported after the “foreigner” assaulted health officers who asked him to wear face mask, according to an official statement. The foreign national was captured in a video yelling ‘motherf*****’ at the officials before throwing his phone at them. The foreign resident is facing deportation after being […]

Pastor jailed for ‘claiming COVID-19 doesn’t exist in Africa’

A cleric, Augustine Yiga, has been accused by the Uganda prosecutors of telling his congregation their is no coronavirus in Uganda and Africa. The controversial pastor has been charged and jailed by the country’s authorities for “doing acts likely to cause the spread of COVID-19”, AFP reported. Report indicated that the alleged denial of the […]

COVID-19 hits NYPD, 3 officers dead, 868 infected

The coronavirus pandemic is taking its toll on the New York Police Department (NYPD), according to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Dermot Shea. Shea told newsmen that the virus had claimed the lives of three officers and infected 868 others, including 88 civilian staff members who have been quarantined. He disclosed that 4,342 uniformed officers, […]

Lockdown: In Zimbabwe, ‘you win coronavirus or you win starvation’

“We are already ruined. What more harm can coronavirus do?” Irene Kampira asked as she sorted secondhand clothes at a bustling market in a poor suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. People in one of the world’s most devastated nations are choosing daily survival over measures to protect themselves from a virus that “might not even […]

Zimbabwe, Lesotho begin 3 week Covid-19 lockdown

The Southern African nations of Lesotho and Zimbabwe on Monday began 21-day lockdown, to curb the spread of the coronavirus, heavily enforced by police and army. While both countries currently have low infection numbers, they both border South Africa, the African nation hardest-hit by the virus, with 1,280 confirmed cases and two deaths. Africa’s most […]

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