Covid-19: Italy’s PM vows to reopen schools in September

ROME, April 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that schools will only reopen in September but many businesses will resume as early as next week as the country emerges from a near-total coronavirus shutdown. Conte told La Repubblica daily that he will spell out the detail of…

Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 5 more deaths, 418 fresh positive cases

DHAKA, April 27 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladesh reported five more deaths, including a child, from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 418 fresh positive cases overnight. “Five more COVID-19 patients died in the last 24 hours, increasing the death toll from the pandemic to 145,” DGHS Additional Director General (administration) Prof Nasima…

Covid-19: India’s death toll rises to 824, cases climb to 26,496

NEW DELHI, April 27 (NNN-PTI) — The death toll due to COVID-19 roseto 824 and the number of cases climbed to 26,496 in India on Sunday, according to the Union health ministry. The death toll increased by 45 and the number of cases has gone up by 1,554 since the…

Covid-19: Nigeria’s governors seek to make face masks compulsory in public

A medical health worker helps his colleague to wear his PPE LAGOS, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nigerian state governors have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to approve the compulsory use of face masks in public as confirmed coronavirus cases rise. The 36 governors believe Buhari’s approval is needed to ensure a…

Covid-19: Russia reports 5,966 new cases in past 24 hours

MOSCOW, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The number of new COVID-19 cases in Russia has risen by 5,966 over the past 24 hours, bringing its nationwide tally to 74,588, the country’s COVID-19 crisis response centre said. It also reported 66 new deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, bringing…

Covid-19: Dutch cases rise above 37,000, with 120 new deaths – health authorities

Medical staff takes coronavirus test samples during drive-thru testing AMSTERDAM, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands rose by 655 to 37,190, health authorities said, with 120 new deaths. The country’s death toll stands at 4,409, the Netherlands Institute for Public Health (RIVM) said in…

Covid-19: Argentina extends quarantine until May 10

People keep social distance while waiting in line to check for coronavirus disease BUENOS AIRES, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Argentina will extend a mandatory nationwide quarantine period until May 10 in a bid to combat the advance of the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said. The government-imposed shelter-in-place measure, in effect…

Covid-19: 17 police officers killed by coronavirus in Peru

Police carry out a checkpoint to enforce the quarantine during the Covid-19 outbreak, in Lima LIMA, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Seventeen police officers in Peru have died after contracting novel coronavirus while enforcing the nation’s pandemic lockdown, officials and state media said. Authorities admitted earlier this week that at least…

Covid-19: In 4 US state prisons, nearly 3,300 inmates test positive for coronavirus – 96% without symptoms

The Marion Correctional Institution where there have been positive cases of the coronavirus disease COLUMBUS, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — When the first cases of the new coronavirus surfaced in Ohio’s prisons, the director in charge felt like she was fighting a ghost. “We weren’t always able to pinpoint where all…

Lesotho PM pushes back on exit deal

Thabane was assured of a secured exit in a deal struck with the coalition government MASERU, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane says he will not be pushed out of office until he is ready to leave.Thabane told a popular newspaper that nobody had the right to…