Covid-19: Ghana expected to receive full complement of $100m coronavirus fund from World Bank

Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister ACCRA, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ghana is expected to have full complement of the $100m Coronavirus fund from the World Bank Monday.The money is expected to go into various programmes and activities to fight the pandemic.The World Bank over the weekend approved the first set of emergency support…

Chile drought causing water shortage amidst virus crisis

SANTIAGO, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — With historically low riverflows and reservoirs running dry due to drought, people in central Chile have found themselves particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. Years of resource exploitation and lax legislation have allowed mostreservoirs in that part of the country to run dry. “There are…

Covid-19: Buenos Aires homeless stuck on the streets during lockdown

BUENOS AIRES, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Argentine government hasordered people to stay at home until mid-April, but thousands have literallynowhere to go — for them “home” is the street. The homeless are among the very few seen on the streets of the capitalBuenos Aires since President Alberto Fernandez issued…

Covid-19: Bronx zoo tiger tests positive

NEW YORK, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A tiger at New York’s Bronx Zoo hastested positive for COVID-19, the institution said, and is believed tohave contracted the virus from a caretaker who was asymptomatic at the time. The four-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia along with her sister Azul, two Amur tigers…

Covid-19: Crowd in Ivory Coast destroys test centre

Residents protest after ransacking a half-built coronavirus testing centre in Yopougon, Abidjan ABIDJAN, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Residents in a working-class district ofthe Ivory Coast city of Abidjan destroyed a coronavirus testingcentre that was under construction, police and health ministry officialssaid. Videos posted on social media, showed several dozen people…

Covid-19: UN chief urges governments to protect women during lockdown

UNITED NATIONS, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres is urging governments around the world to include the protection of women in their response to the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic. “Violence is not confined to the battlefield,” said Guterres in a statementand a video released in multiple languages, reminiscent…

Covid-19: US navy captain fired for voicing virus concern tests positive

WASHINGTON, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US naval commander whose widely publicized plea for help for his coronavirus-affected crew led to hisdismissal has reportedly himself tested positive for the disease. Captain Brett Crozier’s COVID-19 test result was reported by the New York Times, just hours after US Defense Secretary Mark…

Covid-19: Venezuelans stream home from Colombia due to virus pandemic

BOGOTA, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of Venezuelans who fled toneighboring Colombia during their country’s economic crisis are now returning home, pushed by the deadly novel coronavirus and Colombia’s own pandemic woes. Colombian migration officials said that 600 people — including 35children and 167 women — crossed the main border…

Covid-19: Ecuador city runs out of coffins amid virus crisis

QUITO, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Soaring numbers of COVID-19 deaths inEcuador’s second city Guayaquil have led to a shortage of coffins, forcinglocals to resort to using cardboard boxes, city authorities said. Authorities in the Pacific port city said they had received a donation of1,000 pressed cardboard caskets from local producers,…

Covid-19: US attorney general orders release of more federal inmates due to coronavirus pandemic

US Attorney General William Barr WASHINGTON, April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Attorney General William Barr declared that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is facing emergency conditions due to the fast-spreading coronavirus, paving the way for the agency to begin releasing more inmates out of custody and into home confinement. Barr…