92 ViewsBillionaire Richard Branson has paid a touching tribute to his late mother Eve, who died of Coronavirus complication saying she was an ‘extraordinary woman’. He revealed this in a heartfelt statement on Twitter on Monday. She was aged 96. Branson 70, revealed his mum, gave him £100 to start his business when he had […]
Read More110 ViewsPrime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson has stated that 1.3 million people in the UK have so far received their coronavirus vaccine. Mr. Johnson said that his government would be using ‘every second’ of the lockdown to create an ‘invisible shield’ around the elderly and vulnerable in society through the vaccination program, […]
Read More93 ViewsAs the second-wave of the Covid19 continues to ravage many countries of the world, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a strict new national lockdown for England. Mr. Johnson in his address to the nation tonight said everyone must stay at home except for permitted reasons and schools closed. Mr. Johnson said the lockdown […]
Read More106 ViewsThe Federal government has stated that it does not intend to impose a fresh lockdown as the country battles a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was made known by Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed at a press conference in Lagos, where he expressed the federal government’s displeasure over the nonchalant […]
Read More111 Views Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners’ Chapel, David Oyedepo, says the devil is using the COVID19 pandemic to attack the church of Christ and that there is nothing in the novel Coronavirus. Oyedepo who has been a vocal critic of the government’s guidelines in curbing the spread of covid19 said this […]
Read More86 ViewsRep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from the coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed Tuesday evening. He was 41. Letlow, who announced on Dec. 18 that he tested positive for Covid-19, had been in the intensive care unit at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport. He was initially admitted to Monroe hospital on Dec. 19 but was […]
Read More164 ViewsUS Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. The 56-year-old received her first dose of the vaccine live on television just a week after President-elect, Joe Biden got vaccinated. Kamala received the injection at United Medical Center in Washington DC on Tuesday, December 29. ‘OK, let’s do it,’ she said, as registered […]
Read More109 ViewsFollowing the deadly nature of the second wave of the coronavirus, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has announced that 20 doctors have died of coronavirus related complication in the last seven days. Enema Amodu chairman of the association in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja said this during a press briefing on Friday, December […]
Read More87 ViewsFollowing an upsurge in cases of Covid 19 across the world, Saudi Arabia has temporarily stopped all international flights for a week amid fears over a highly infectious new mutant strain of the novel coronavirus which has been discovered in Britain, an Interior Ministry source has confirmed. The ban, which came into effect on […]
Read More146 ViewsThe Obamas had a guest during the early days of the pandemic, daughter Malia’s boyfriend, Rory Farquharson. Like most families across the United States, the Obamas quarantined as the coronavirus pandemic began to rage in mid-March. In comments made on The Bill Simmons Podcast on Thursday, Barack Obama noted that Farquharson was part of […]
Read More179 ViewsFollowing the announcement that he tested positive for Covid-19, President Emmanuel Macron had on Friday blamed his contraction of the disease on a combination of negligence and bad luck. The French leader in a video as he is currently self-isolating at the presidential retreat in Versailles urged his compatriots to stay safe. Macron said […]
Read More123 ViewsEight nuns living at a retirement home for sisters in suburban Milwaukee have died of COVID-19 in the last week, a grim reminder of how quickly the virus can spread in congregate living situations, even when precautions are taken. Four of them passed away on the same day. Notre Dame of Elm Grove had […]
Read More131 ViewsFrench President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, the presidential Elysee Palace announced on Thursday. It said the 42-year-old leader took a test “as soon as the first symptoms appeared” The statement by the Elysee Palace did not mention what symptoms Macron experienced, but said he would isolate himself for seven days. “He […]
Read More130 ViewsFollowing an upsurge in the cases of COVID 19, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has gone into isolation. The governor made this known on Saturday during a broadcast, he said the measure was necessary as family members and senior government officials around him tested positive for COVID-19. El-Rufai said he is in self-isolation as […]
Read More139 ViewsLillian E. Blancas, a widely respected lawyer in El Paso, always wanted to be a judge. She was expected to achieve her goal on Saturday in a runoff election, in which she was the favorite. Ms. Blancas died at a hospital in the city on Monday. She was 47. The cause was Covid-19, her […]
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