Coronavirus: 1417 people die in 24 hours in France

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 ...

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Bauchi Governor’s kidnapped brother regains freedom

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 ...

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Mayor of Illinois sends cops to break party violating lockdown rules only to discover his wife is among them

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 ...

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Kylie Jenner, 22, is Forbes’ youngest ‘self-made’ billionaire for the SECOND year in a row

Forbes released the annual World’s Billionaires list on Wednesday and beauty mogul Kylie remains the planet’s youngest self-made billionaire at aged 22. In 2019, the star unseated Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, 35, as the youngest-ever self-made billionaire – he was 23 ...

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Ronaldinho released from prison and placed on house arrest after paying £1.3m bond

Ronaldinho has been released from prison in Paraguay and placed under house arrest following his fake passport scandal. The Brazil legend, 40, was thrown behind bars for allegedly trying to enter the South American nation with forged documentation. But he ...

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Donald Trump calls WHO ‘China centric’ and threatens to cut their funding

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 ...

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Coronavirus: US records highest death toll in single day

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 ...

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Boris Johnson spends second night in intensive care

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 ...

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COVID-19: Ogun deploys mobile app for self-assessment

The Ogun State government has deployed a mobile application for residents to undergo assessment on an individual basis in the event of being infected with COVID-19. This comes a month after the state launched an updated mobile application for health ...

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Benue hospital insists it sacked 3, not 30 doctors

Management of Benue State University Teaching Hospital says it issued sack letter on only three, not 30 doctors, as the Association of Resident Doctors have claimed. The association at the hospital has threatened to go on strike if the hospital ...

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LUTH admits four COVID-19 patients hours after inaugurating isolation centre

A few hours after the inauguration of a 60-bed isolation centre for Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, says it has admitted four patients with the virus. Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, the LUTH Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, disclosed this ...

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Police release Naira Marley, ex-gov candidate, wife on bail

The Lagos State Police Command has released on bail the governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party in the state in the 2019 gubernatorial election, Babatunde Gbadamosi, and his wife. The couple were released on Tuesday alongside Naira Marley, after ...

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Israel’s health minister tests positive for Covid-19 after ignoring own lockdown rules

Israel’s health minister has been accused of flouting his own lockdown rules after continuing to attend group prayers – despite a ban on gatherings. Yaakov Litzman has tested positive for Covid-19, causing chaos in Israel’s highest political office as leaders ...

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I may never date again – Khloé Kardashian

The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star told her mother, Kris Jenner, in a sneak peek at Thursday’s episode that she is “not even thinking” about dating since her split from Tristan Thompson, the father of her 1-year-old daughter, True. ...

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Again, UCH chairman, Ibrahim Shetima tests positive for coronavirus

The result of COVID-19 second test done for the chairman of the governing board of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Ibrahim Shetima, has returned positive. Shetima had been in isolation at a special ward in the UCH after he tested ...

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Virginia pastor who criticized coronavirus ‘mass hysteria’ dies from it

A Virginia pastor who criticized the “mass hysteria” surrounding the coronavirus pandemic has died of the illness. Landon Spradlin, of Gretna, a small town halfway between Lynchburg and Danville started to feel sick while in New Orleans, where he went ...

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Katsina Government lifts suspension on congregational prayers

The Katsina State Government has lifted the suspension on Friday congregational prayer with immediate effect. This was announced by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Mustapha Inuwa, in a statement made released Tuesday in Katsina. The statement said: “Following ...

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Twitter founder pledges $1 billion for coronavirus relief efforts

Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said Tuesday he was committing $1 billion to coronavirus relief through his philanthropic fund. Dorsey said in a series of tweets that he would transfer his equity in his digital payments group Square to ...

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89-year old grandmother who defeated breast cancer, cancer of the womb and skin cancer also defeats coronavirus

Grandaughter Jade Elrick, 26, said: “We obviously weren’t allowed to see her – the hospital said she was in a room which she didn’t like, she didn’t understand why we weren’t able to visit. “We tried to call but the ...

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