Covid-19: Packed California beaches prompt stricter virus measures

LOS ANGELES, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Governor Gavin Newsom tightened California’s coronavirus lockdown, shutting parking lots at beaches and parks in the most populous US state after tens of thousands flouted social distancing rules over the weekend. The state is already under orders to stay home, but images of record…

Covid-19: Spanish soldiers find abandoned bodies in retirement homes

MADRID, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at retirement homes, as an ice rink inside a Madrid shopping mall was turned into a temporary morgue to cope with a surge in cases. The army…

Covid-19: For Moscow’s quarantined, 100,000 cameras are watching

MOSCOW, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A vast and contentious network of facial recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in the battle against the spread of the coronavirus in Russia. The city rolled out the technology just before the epidemic reached Russia,ignoring protests and legal…

64 Ethiopians found dead in cargo container in Mozambique; 14 others survived

 Police talk to some of the survivors found in the cargo container MAPUTO, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sixty-four migrants from Ethiopia were found dead on Tuesday, crammed inside a freight container in the northwestern Mozambican province of Tete, a senior hospital official said. The victims were discovered in a blue…

Covid-19: Pres Trump declares coronavirus fight close to end, but US cases rise

WASHINGTON, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump declared the beginning of the end of the coronavirus crisis in the United States and called for a quick end to social distancing, even as New York’s governor compared the growing pandemic to a “bullet train.” Trump, who is keen to get…

Covid-19: Brazilian Pres Bolsonaro slams quarantines, says no need for extreme ‘scorched-earth’ measures

BRASILIA, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro lashed out at what he called “scorched-earth” quarantine policies to contain the coronavirus pandemic, saying they risked wrecking the economy. Never one to shy from controversy, the far-right leader condemned the containment measures taken by local authorities in places such as…

Covid-19: Italy records 743 deaths, surging to break two-day trend

The cemetery in the village of Vertova near Bergamo, Lombardy where 36 people died of coronavirus in 23 days ROME, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Italy reported a sharp rise in its coronavirus death toll Tuesday, with 743 more victims, breaking a two-day trend that had fuelled hopes the epidemic may…

Covid-19: More than 2.6 billion worldwide told to observe lockdowns

PARIS, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 2.6 billion people worldwide will be in lockdown after India introduces its measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic at 1830 GMT on Tuesday. The figure represents more than one-third of a global population the United Nations estimates at 7.8 billion in 2020. At…

Covid-19: US Olympic officials say Tokyo postponement to 2021 ‘most promising path’

LOS ANGELES, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee voiced support for delaying the Tokyo Games after a survey showed an overwhelming majority of American athletes backed a postponement. While stopping short of demanding that the July 24-August 9 Games be pushed back in the face of…

Covid-19: Worship in churches and mosques suspended in Kenya

The Jamia Mosque NAIROBI, March 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Religious leaders in Kenya have suspended worship in some churches and mosques after the country confirmed seven coronavirus cases. The Presbyterian Church of East Africa, All Saints’ Cathedral of Anglican Church, Christ is the Answer Ministries, Kenya Assemblies of God and the…