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  Face masks do not stop healthy people getting coronavirus Covid-19, the World Health Organization has said in updated guidelines. The health body states coronavirus can enter the body through respiratory droplets and contact, but wearing a medical mask “is ...

Around 600 people have died and thousands are in hospital in Iran from drinking neat alcohol following a false coronavirus ‘cure’ claim. The country has seen more than 62,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with more than 4,000 deaths. And in ...

The Lagos State Government today gave conditions for withdrawing the charge brought against controversial hip-hop star, Azeez Fashola popularly known as Naira Marley, former Lagos governorship aspirant, Babatunde Gbadamosi and his wife Folashade for flouting the state Coronavirus social distancing ...

A family from London are recreating their favourite film scenes and getting people to guess the movie as they try and cure their boredom in lockdown. The Taylors, from Twickenham, London, have been sharing their efforts on Instagram where their ...

A mother-of-two has spoken of her ordeal when a ‘senior doctor’ told her that her 12-week-old daughter could not have contracted coronavirus, only to find out 24 hours later she had. Little Winter-Rose Watson is thought to be one of ...

A nurse who fears she may die from coronavirus has written her will. A young nurse on the Covid-19 frontline has told how she has written her will because she fears she could die from coronavirus. Kate O’Flaherty said she ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended one of his top ministers for two months, including one unpaid, after she was photographed having lunch with a friend in violation of a national lockdown to contain the coronavirus. Minister of Communications ...

Part of a building located at 47 Modebe Street, Onitsha, Anambra state has collapsed, killing a child The collapsed portion is the lintel attachment to an existing structure. After the collapse, officials of the State Physical Planning Board led by ...

22-year-old boxing prospect Alexis Navidad has been shot and killed in front of his home in El Salvador’s capital city San Salvador on Sunday evening. Navidad, known as ‘Payasit’ (Little Clown) was shot twice in the Santa Anita neighbourhood and ...

There is anxiety in Delta’s oil city, Warri, over the record of an index case of the novel Coronavirus in the State. According to sources, the case was discovered at a private hospital within the commercial hub of the state. ...

The Lagos State Government, Naira Marley, and a politician, Babatunde Gbadamosi are to settle out of court. Naira Marley, Gbadamosi and his wife were charged before the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Ogba today for attending a crowded birthday party ...

Naira Marley’s trial has begun and journalists have been barred from covering it. Naira Marley is being tried for alleged violation of the lockdown order in Lagos State when he attended JJC Skillz birthday at AMEN Estate. The party was ...

A 66-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom has died of coronavirus in Lagos State. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known via Twitter today. He also confirmed that cases of coronavirus had increased to 130 ...

Nollywood actor, Ukwak Asuquo is dead. Asuquo who was famous for playing Boniface in then Television soap — The Village Headmaster has passed away. His demise was announced by the Public Relations Officer of the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN), ...

The fire that engulfed the fourth floor of Treasury House has been put out. Minister of State Budget and National Planning arrived the scene a short while ago in the company of the Accountant General of the Federation to assess ...

Wuhan residents have made a dash to leave the city by road, air and train as the city’s 76-day lockdown is finally lifted. Pictures showed hundreds of cars arriving at motorway toll gates and travellers gathering outside transport hubs in ...

France has recorded the world’s highest daily coronavirus death toll after 1,417 victims died in the past 24 hours. The leap makes the country the fourth in the world to surpass 10,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Its ...

Yaya Adamu Duguri, the kidnapped elder brother of Bauchi State governor, Sen Bala Mohammed has regained his freedom from his kidnappers. Yaya Adamu Duguri who was kidnapped about two weeks ago by armed men was released on Tuesday evening. A ...

A small-town Illinois mayor on Sunday sent police officers to break up a social gathering that was being held in violation of the governor’s coronavirus stay-at-home order, only to find his own wife among the revelers. Alton Mayor Brant Walker ...

President Trump went after the World Health Organization in a tweet Tuesday, calling it too ‘China centric’ and threatening to trim U.S. funding from the body. ‘The W.H.O. really blew it,’ Trump wrote. ‘For some reason, funded largely by the ...

The US recorded the most coronavirus deaths in a single day with more than 1,800 fatalities reported on Tuesday. It brings the total number of deaths in the country to nearly 13,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The ...

Boris Johnson has spent a second night in intensive care as he continues to receive treatment for coronavirus. Mr Johnson is being kept in St Thomas’ Hospital in London “for close monitoring”, Downing Street said. The PM is “comfortable, he’s ...

Grammy-winning country folk singer John Prine has died at the age of 73 from coronavirus. The singer, who was one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, died on Tuesday after a short battle with the virus. Prine was ...

A yet-to-be identified man reportedly slumped and died at the popular Igbudu Market in the Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State on Tuesday. It was learnt that the man had gone to the market to buy foodstuffs when ...

The mum of a teen thought to have taken his own life during the lockdown in the UK has urged families to tell their kids “it’s okay not to be okay”. Talented 15-year-old kickboxer Kian Southway died on March 31 ...