Category: International

By Dr Ahmed Mohiuddin Siddiqui A nation is known by its heroes and superheroes especially during a crisis situation. The Sultanate of Oman is seeing many such superheroes during this Coronavirus (COVID-19) andemic and the foremost among them is Oman’s frontline community activist, environmentalist and board member of Oman Cancer Association (OCA), Dr. Manal Abdul Majeed Al Zadjali.  COVID-19, as Coronavirus is being called, has challenged mankind like never before. Leading the fight like an able army general in…

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Voice of America Coronavirus (COVID-19) travel restrictions in Ethiopia are forcing pregnant women to give birth at home, health workers say. Health workers keep receiving panicked phone calls from women going into labor, which has become an everyday occurrence ever since Ethiopia implemented strict travel bans last month to stop the spread of the Coronavirus. Kenasa Kumera, who manages the Marie Stopes International maternity center in Adama, roughly 100 kilometers from the capital, Addis Ababa, says he has received…

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By Lisa Schlein, Voice of America The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that Coronavirus (COVID-19) is spreading at an alarming rate in rural areas of Africa and says urgent help is needed to strengthen the continent’s fragile health system. WHO has confirmed more than 8,300 cases of COVID-19 in Africa, including nearly 400 deaths. That figure pales compared to the number of cases elsewhere.  Latest global figures put the number of Coronavirus cases at more than 1.6 million, with…

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24matins.uk Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as the country steps up its fight against imported infections. China says it has largely curbed its COVID-19 outbreak but a recent cluster of cases linked to the Nigerian community in Guangzhou sparked the alleged discrimination by locals and virus prevention officials. Local authorities in the industrial centre of 15 million said at least…

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