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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

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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 […]

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Couple names their new born twins Corona and Covid

Daily Dispatch April 3, 2020

An Indian couple have done the unthinkable by naming their newborn twins as Corona and Covid, names connected with the pandemic raging in the world. For the couple based in Raipur, in the state of Chhattisgarh, the two words may evoke fear and devastation to the world. But for them, they symbolise triumph over hardship. […]

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No respite for UK, Coronavirus takes 563 lives in one day

Daily Dispatch April 1, 2020

There is no respite for the United Kingdom (UK) as the deadly Coronavirus killed 563 people in less than 24 hours, taking total death toll to 2,352. According to the Department of Health, 29,474 people have tested positive for the virus, up 4,324 since Tuesday. Just yesterday health officials were talking about “green shoots” amid signs the […]

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Coronavirus: United States overtakes China in death toll, expects worse statistics

Daily Dispatch March 31, 2020

The United States on Tuesday overtook China in the official death toll from the coronavirus. The U.S. now has 3,424 deaths from the virus, surpassing China’s figure of 3,305, according to a tracker by worldometers.info. United States also has by far the worst cases of the virus in the world, at over 180,000. Italy trails […]