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Breaking: Iran shuts schools, universities over coronavirus

Daily Dispatch March 5, 2020

Schools and universities in Iran will be closed until early April because of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, the health minister said Thursday. “People should not consider this as an opportunity to go travelling. They should stay home and take our warnings seriously,” Saeed Namaki said at a

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Russia Jails Jehovah’s Witness For Extremism

Daily Dispatch March 5, 2020

A court in Russia-annexed Crimea sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison for extremism, the group said Thursday as Moscow pursues a crackdown on the US-based movement. Russia outlawed the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2017, labelling them an extremist organisation. A court in Dzhankoy in the north of the Crimean peninsula sentenced Sergei Filatov, […]

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Coronavirus: Saudi Arabia Mosques Go Empty As Kingdom Suspends Umrah For Domestic Pilgrims

Daily Dispatch March 4, 2020

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday suspended temporarily the Umrah pilgrimage and visit to the Prophet’s Mosque for Saudi citizens and expatriates in the Kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency reported. According to a statement by the Ministry of Interior, the decision was taken in line with recommendation of a committee saddled with the responsibility of following up […]

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South Africa slips into recession

Daily Dispatch March 3, 2020

South Africa slipped into recession in the final three months of 2019, the country’s statistics bureau said on Tuesday, the third recession to hit the country since the end of apartheid in 1994. Gross domestic product fell by 1.4 percent in the quarter, after dropping by 0.8 percent in the previous three months, Statistics South […]

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Breaking: Senegal confirms first coronavirus case

Daily Dispatch March 2, 2020

Senegal confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus on Monday, marking just the second infection in sub-Saharan Africa amid concerns over the continent’s vulnerability to outbreaks of contagious diseases. A French man who lives in Senegal visited France in mid-February, contracting the virus before returning to the West African country and being quarantined in […]

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Iran says 54 dead as coronavirus spreads more rapidly

Daily Dispatch March 1, 2020

The novel coronavirus claimed another 11 lives in Iran, bringing the country’s overall toll to 54, according to official figures released on Sunday that showed the virus was spreading more rapidly. “Eleven people lost their lives” in the past 24 hours, health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a televised news conference, adding that testing across […]