Covid-19: Death toll touches 414 in India; cases climb to 12,380

NEW DELHI, April 17 (NNN-PTI) — The death toll due to coronavirus rose to 414 and the number of cases to 12,380 in India on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 10,477, as many as 1,488 people have been cured and…

Covid-19: South African doctors design ‘box’ to prevent infection

JOHANNESBURG, April 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Eyes narrowed in focus behind her face shield, doctor Jana Du Plessis kept a steady hand as she inserted a tube down the throat of a dummy, working through the lid of a plexiglass box. Du Plessis, a doctor at Johannesburg’s Charlotte Maxeke public hospital,…

Covid-19: Russia, US should help each other during pandemic – Pres Putin

MOSCOW, April 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian President Vladimir Putin believes the global coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity for his country to work together with the United States, the Kremlin said. “President Putin believes this pandemic is the time to help each other,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, after US…

Covid-19: US death toll tops 30,000 – tracker

WASHINGTON, April 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The confirmed coronavirus death toll in the United States surpassed 30,000 on Thursday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The tracker says 30,990 people have now died in the country from COVID-19 since the start of the global health crisis. The US has…

Covid-19: South Korea election win; Singapore cases surge

After landslide election victory The leadership of the ruling Democratic Party and its satellite sister party, the Platform Party, pay respects during a visit to the National Cemetery in Seoul on April 17, 2020, two days after their overwhelming victory in the parliamentary elections. Photo courtesy of YONHAP News Agency…

Covid-19: Europe remains ‘in the eye’ of coronavirus storm, says WHO

COPENHAGEN, April 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization’s European office said that despite some “optimistic signs” in some of the countries worst hit by the new coronavirus, the number of cases was rising and approaching one million in the continent alone. “We remain in the eye of the storm,”…

Covid-19: Bangladesh declared ‘risky’ for outbreak

DHAKA, April 17 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladesh has been declared as “risky” for the novel coronaviurs (COVID-19) as the deadly virus has already spread across the country, claiming lives of 60 people and infecting 1,572 others so far. “The entire Bangladesh has been declared as a risky area of infection (of…

World 106-year-old British woman beats COVID-19

106-year-old Connie Titchen LONDON, April 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 106-year-old great-grandmother, thought to be the oldest patient in Britain to beat the novel coronavirus, was discharged from hospital to applause from nurses and health workers. Connie Titchen, from Birmingham, England, battled the virus for just under three weeks and was…

Covid-19 checkpoints help Irish police seize drugs, weapons, smuggled cigarettes

Irish Garda officers at a checkpoint DUBLIN, April 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Irish police made one of their largest drug seizures of the year when a car tried to evade one of their checkpoints set up to enforce strict measures to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. The police have been…

Covid-19: Haiti to reopen textile factories despite virus fears

PORT-AU-PRINCE, April 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Haiti will reopen its key textile industry next week, Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe said, suggesting the impoverished nation had escaped the worst of the global coronavirus pandemic by imposing early on a state of emergency. The poorest country in the western hemisphere typically struggles to…