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Boris Johnson in hospital for precautionary test on COVID-19

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was taken to hospital on Sunday for tests, his office said, 10 days after he tested positive for coronavirus. “On the advice of his doctor, the Prime Minister has tonight been admitted to hospital for tests,” Downing Street said in a statement,

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Breaking: UK coronavirus death toll close to 5,000

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2020

The UK coronavirus death toll is now close to 5,000 after another 621 people died in the last 24 hours. The new figure, which is lower than the record 708 deaths reported on Saturday, takes the country’s fatalities to 4,934. Confirmed cases released by the Department of Health also jumped by 5,903. The national total […]

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COVID-19: China says it has sold nearly four billion masks abroad

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2020

China has sold nearly four billion masks to foreign countries since March, officials said Sunday, as they tried to stem widespread fears over the quality of medical exports. Despite Chinese cases dwindling, Beijing has encouraged factories to increase production of medical supplies as the pandemic kills over 60,000 globally and parts of the world face […]

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Covid-19: 3 Day Old Baby tests positive

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2020

A three-day-old baby born on March 26 has tested positive for coronavirus along with his 26-year-old mother. They allegedly caught the virus after they were kept on a bed vacated by a COVID-19 patient, IndiaToday reports. The baby and his mother were shifted to Kurla Babha Hospital on Tuesday and were later again shifted to Kasturba Hospital […]

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Man in Russia kills five people for ‘talking loudly’: investigators

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2020

A man in central Russia shot and killed five people for talking noisily at night under his windows, investigators said Sunday. The shootings took place in the Ryazan region during stay-at-home orders aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. A 32-year-old man from the small town of Yelatma opened fire on a group of […]

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Coronavirus: Soldiers arrested for raping women during lockdown

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2020

Five Rwandan soldiers have been arrested after residents of a slum in the capital, Kigali, alleged that they raped women as they enforced a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the army has said. Residents of Nyarutarama have been telling the military prosecution office that the soldiers also beat up male residents and […]