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Covid-19: WHO warns against a surge in fake medicines

Counterfeit antimalarial drugs discovered in circulation in the DRC GENEVA, April 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Growing numbers of fake medicines linked…

Covid-19: Woman aged 107 becomes world’s oldest person to survive coronavirus

Cornelia Ras on her 107th birthday, one day before she fell ill with coronavirus on March 17  AMSTERDAM, April 10…

Armed group robs Mexican gold mine, flees in plane

MEXICO CITY, April 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An armed group stormed a gold mine in northern Mexico and stole bars of…

Covid-19: New single-day record for NY virus deaths but hospitalizations fall

NEW YORK, April 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — America’s coronavirus epicenterof New York recorded a new single-day high of 799 COVID-19 deathsThursday…

Covid-19: “We shall win this together”, Indian PM Modi responds to US Pres Trump’s tweet

NEW DELHI, April 10 (NNN-BSS) — In a response to a tweet of US President Donald Trump, Indian Prime Minister…

Covid-19: World faces worst time since Great Depression, says IMF’s Georgieva

WASHINGTON, April 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The global coronavirus pandemic is causing an economic crisis unlike any in the past century…

Mexican president lashes out at companies over layoffs, taxes as big business seethes

Pres Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador MEXICO CITY, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico’s president threw himself into a new confrontation with…

Covid-19: Virus-stricken Australian liner to dock in Uruguay

Medical workers transfer a passenger with COVID-19 from the Greg Mortimer cruise liner to an ambulance at Montevideo’s port MONTEVIDEO,…

COVID-19 reaches indigenous Yanomami people in Amazon

The Yanomami people live in remote areas of the Amazon BRASILIA, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil said a first case…

UN delivers 90 tons of COVID-19 aid to Venezuela

CARACAS, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A plane carrying 90 tons of UN health, water and sanitation aid arrived in Venezuela…