Covid-19: Zimbabwe eases lockdown to allow diaspora remittances flow

Women cross a deserted street in Harare HARARE, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Zimbabwe will allow citizens to access remittances from the diaspora and permit farmers to take their produce to the market, easing a three-week coronavirus lockdown that analysts fear could push the struggling economy to the brink of collapse.…

Covid-19: Angola’s Health Ministry summons retired professionals

LUANDA, April 8 (NNN-ANGOP) — The Health Ministry (MINSA) appealed to retired Angolan doctors and nurses to join in and reinforce the staff involved in the fight against the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country. According to a Minsa statement, those called in  are required to report to locations and…

Covid-19: Paris bans daytime jogging in bid to slow spread of coronavirus

PARIS, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Paris officials said they would ban lone daytime jogging as people continue to flout anti-Coronavirus lockdown rules, after France recorded its highest daily death toll. Under nationwide confinement rules that came into force on March 17, people can leave their homes only for essential purposes, which…

Covid-19: Miss England returns to work as doctor amid pandemic

Bhasha Mukherjee LONDON, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A beauty queen who was crowned Miss England in 2019 has returned to the United Kingdom from overseas charity work to continue her career as a doctor amid the coronavirus pandemic. Bhasha Mukherjee took a career break as a junior doctor after competing…

Covid-19: Pres Trump administration to keep critical medical supplies in US – Sec of State Pompeo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo WASHINGTON, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced an additional $225 million in US aid for global efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic but said the Trump administration will keep critical medical supplies in the United States given the domestic…

Covid-19: Four out of five people’s jobs hit by pandemic, says ILO

GENEVA, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A total of 81% of the global workforce of 3.3 billion people have had their workplace fully or partly closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Restrictions on daily life have led to the closure of many companies and the laying off of staff – either…

Covid-19: France begins clinical trials of coronavirus blood plasma treatment

PARIS, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France begins clinical trials involving transfusions of blood plasma from Coronavirus survivors into patients who have severe symptoms in a bid to treat the illness, the institutions involved said. Drugmakers are racing to develop a vaccine and treatment for the pandemic, which has killed over 60,000 people…

New swarm of locusts invades eastern Uganda

Locusts previously invaded Uganda in February KAMPALA, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A new swarm of locusts has invaded parts of the north-eastern and eastern regions of Uganda, putting at risk June’s harvests.Largely made up young locusts, it arrived four days ago in a district bordering western Kenya and has since…

Covid-19: World Bank releases $82m support to strengthen Nigerian public health response

ABUJA, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Bank Group has released 82 million dollars for immediate support in strengthening the public health response through the Regional Disease Surveillance System Enhancement Project (REDISSE). The bank made this known in a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday. The bank explained that in…

Covid-19: Chad’s ex-ruler Habre granted leave from Senegal prison holding quarantined virus inmates

Hissene Habre ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990 DAKAR, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Chad’s former ruler Hissene Habre has been granted two months leave from prison in Senegal, where he is serving life for crimes against humanity.The prison is being used to hold new detainees in coronavirus quarantine.Habre was convicted…