Talka~G~blog

  Brazilian authorities had recaptured 586 inmates who escaped from their minimum-security prisons after their right to leave on temporary furloughs was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. But they estimated that 789 others remained on the run, after a ...

The UK’s coronavirus case total has soared to 1,950 after 407 more patients tested positive in the biggest day-on-day increase yet. Scotland announced its second fatality, taking the UK’s total to 56, but a further increase in the overall death ...

A senior doctor who was diagnosed with coronavirus has described how she beat the bug – with chicken soup, lemonade and paracetamol all playing a part. Dr Clare Gerada, 60, caught the deadly virus after returning from a conference in ...

A cheating husband who caught coronavirus on a secret break to Italy with his mistress is now in isolation in the UK with his wife who has no idea how he caught it. The woman has no idea how her ...

Idris Elba has suggested that he may have caught coronavirus from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie, 44, after the two met shortly before they both tested positive for COVID-19. The actor, 47, revealed in a video shared to ...

Men with an older brother are more likely to be gay, a study suggests. Researchers looked at almost 5,400 men across ten scientific studies and found those with an older brother were 38 per cent more likely to be gay ...

Facebook has committed thousands of dollars to helping its staff of 45,000 employees manage expenses during the coronavirus  pandemic that is spreading across the globe. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced full-time workers will be given their six-month bonuses, along with an ...

The National Youth Service Corps has asked corps members currently in orientation camps across the country to vacate the camps over coronavirus fears. The virus has killed over 7000 persons globally and three cases have been confirmed in Nigeria, although ...

The first dog in the world to catch coronavirus has died in Hong Kong after it was declared disease-free and returned home to its owner. The 17-year-old Pomeranian, whose owner contracted COVID-19 last month, had been quarantined at a government ...

Former Chelsea and Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas showed he’s not about to let the coronavirus get the better of him by shouting a friendly hello to his neighbours. The Spaniard, 32, who now resides in Monaco, took to his plush ...

Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun, has disowned his Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Oludare Kehinde, who reportedly castigated a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aremo Olusegun Osoba. The 36-year-old Commissioner was quoted by an online news platform to ...

South Africa’s central bank has warned citizens against scammers visiting homes to “recall” banknotes and coins they said were contaminated with the novel coronavirus. The criminals carried fake identification badges and provided false receipts to victims, who were told they ...

Gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped two daughters of late Chief Emiola Adesina, Director of Sports in the Old Western Region in Ibadan, Oyo state. A family source told reporters in Ibadan that the abductors are demanding a ransom of N100million. Professor ...

China has ordered American journalists at the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal to leave the country in the Communist government’s most severe move against foreign media in recent memory. The foreign ministry said in a statement ...

Major phone networks in the UK have reportedly gone down or are having issues, leaving Britons struggling to work from home in the coronavirus outbreak. UK mobile networks O2, EE, Vodafone and 3 are all said to be struggling just ...

Spanish health officials report that deaths from coronavirus in the country surged to 491 on Tuesday from 309 the day before. The number of confirmed cases also soared by 2,000 to 11,178, as Spain closed its borders and maintained a ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has said the Italian who brought Coronavirus to Nigeria is still potentially contagious and will remain in isolation at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, until he no longer secretes the virus. ...

Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have been released from the Australian hospital where they were in isolation since testing positive for the coronavirus last week, their son Chet said. “A quick update on my folks: They’re out of ...

The brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has been found guilty of murdering 22 people. Hashem Abedi had denied helping to plan the “sudden and lethal” blast which killed or injured “nearly 1,000”. The Old Bailey heard the pair ...

Euro 2020 has been postponed by one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. European football’s governing body made the decision during an emergency video conference involving major stakeholders on Tuesday. The tournament, due to take place from 12 ...

African countries have been among the last to be hit by the global coronavirus epidemic but as cases rise, many nations are now taking strict measures to block the deadly illness. Watching from afar as the disaster unfolds in Asia ...

The daughter of famed hip-hop pioneer Eric B. — Erica Supreme Barrier has passed away after a serious car crash in Connecticut on Sunday. According to an Instagram post by “The Real Sister2Sister 2.0,” Erica died on Monday evening from ...

Italy’s national tally of cases of novel coronavirus contagion has increased to 31,506, with 2,503 deaths, the Civil Protection Agency says in its daily bulletin on Tuesday. Compared to Monday, the death toll has risen by 16 per cent, while ...

An Indian contractor staff with Dangote Industries Limited has been quarantined for Coronavirus at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Management of the Dangote Industries Limited in a statement on Tuesday said its attention had been ...

Kenyan authorities have raided a shop allegedly selling fake coronavirus testing kits. The Standard newspaper reported that police detained 10 people and locked the facility in the capital, Nairobi in Monday’s raid. The suspects advertised the testing kits online claiming ...