Madagascar’s president this weekend launched a capsule version of an herbal tea he touts as a treatment for the Chinese coronavirus. The country’s World Health Organization (W.H.O.) representative approvingly attended the launch ceremony.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro attempted to send well-wishes to President Donald Trump during his regular Sunday night television broadcast, blaming Trump for testing positive for the Chinese coronavirus and expressing hope that the virus will make him “more human.”
A group of 80 Tory MPs are backing an amendment to the UK’s coronavirus regulations in order to prevent Boris Johnson from imposing “Orwellian” restrictions by decree and return the governance of the UK to the Houses of Parliament. The
The House of Commons has removed the exemption for MPs to drink past the nationwide curfew of 10 pm in Parliament’s bars, amidst widespread public outrage over the apparent double standards for politicians.
London Police forcibly shut down an anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square on Saturday, using their batons to beat protesters as they tried to disperse the demonstration, which the police claimed violated the UK’s coronavirus regulations.
Migrants housed in a Sicilian hotel set fires in the accommodation to protest against anti-coronavirus measures.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s education minister is urging parents and schools to cancel “all social events,” including camps but also private gatherings like birthday parties to which classmates are invited.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that the British government is acting like an “elected dictatorship” as it continues to pass coronavirus laws without parliamentary scrutiny.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top Treasury official is preparing to announce new plans to help workers hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and two of the top doctors working under his Communist Party made the cut for Time magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People in 2020, published on Tuesday.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping offered millions in investments to the global agencies, urged other countries to offer Africa debt relief, and promised the Communist Party would fight neither a “cold war [nor] a hot one” with any country during his remarks at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green said the Labour Party should not “let a good crisis go to waste”, saying that her party should use the China virus to push through more government spending in areas like education.
Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel has suggested a complete ban on the sale of alcohol in Britain until a coronavirus vaccine is produced.
Anyone who wants to protest against this assault on liberty ought to be ready for the worst: the police are now a political instrument.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said the UK must reject a second national lockdown, warning of a “complete and utter catastrophe” if Prime Minister Boris Johnson implements another.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a set of draconian coronavirus restrictions, including fines of up to £10,000 for breaching self-isolation, as the Mayor of London floated the idea of a second lockdown and curfews in the British capital.
ROME (AP) — Italians in seven regions headed to the polls Sunday for two days of voting shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic.
LONDON (AP) — Police in London have clashed with protesters at a rally organized by opponents of restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus.
TORONTO (AP) – The new leader of Canada’s main opposition party has tested positive for the coronavirus.
The president of the United Nations General Assembly has teased that this year’s general debate next week — during which all the world’s heads of state may deliver remarks on any topic of their choosing — will feature more world leaders than ever.
Hospitals in Kenya are running out of medical oxygen used to treat critical coronavirus patients, Kenya’s Daily Nation reported on Wednesday.
Li-Meng Yan, a former virologist at the University of Hong Kong School of Public Health, told a U.K. broadcast this weekend that she is certain the Chinese coronavirus “is not from nature” but, rather, artificially engineered at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Obviously I’m flattered to be likened to my favourite anatomical feature. Even so, even in 2020, is it really appropriate that a minister of Her Majesty’s government should be using such language against members of the public on social media?
General Robert B. Abrams, commander of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), revealed in an interview Thursday that the communist dictatorship running North Korea issued “shoot-to-kill” orders on its border with China to prevent smugglers from infecting the country with Chinese coronavirus.
Juan Guaidó, the legal president of Venezuela, urged people in the country on Monday to join a rally celebrating “health heroes” fighting the Chinese coronavirus pandemic — a small-scale attempt to rebuild the enormous momentum behind anti-socialist protests that fizzled under his leadership.
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency published a glowing profile on Tuesday of the work dictator Xi Jinping allegedly did to contain the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, heaping praise on Xi for leading teleconferences and giving “important instructions” to underlings.
(AFP) — Australian officials on Sunday extended a strict virus lockdown of the country’s second-biggest city by two weeks, saying new cases had not dropped enough to prevent another spike.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After nearly two months of being sedated and connected to IV lines in a hospital’s intensive care unit, Francisco Espana took a moment to fill his ailing lungs with fresh air at a Barcelona beachfront.
PARIS (AP) — France has closed 22 of its 62,000 schools since in-person classes resumed this week because of virus infections.
ROME (AP) — Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has a history of heart and other medical problems, was admitted to a Milan hospital early Friday as a precaution to monitor his coronavirus infection, a top aide said.
PARIS (AP) — Facing resurgent virus infections, France’s government is unveiling details Thursday of a 100 billion-euro ($118 billion) recovery plan aimed at creating jobs, saving struggling businesses and pulling the country out of its worst economic slump since World War II.
Iran’s outgoing President Hassan Rouhani ordered the nation’s Health Ministry to begin plans to buy Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidates from other countries this weekend, raising questions about the progress Iran has made on its alleged indigenous attempt at a vaccine.
Belarus claims it will be the first foreign country to receive Russia’s coronavirus vaccine candidate, Belarus state news agency BelTA reported this weekend.
According to a statement from the Chinese state prosecutor’s office on Thursday, police arrested 5,797 people between January and July for coronavirus-related crimes, ranging from fraud and embezzlement to murder.
A second national lockdown may be coming down the pike in England should there be a significant “second wave” of Chinese coronavirus infections, the Health Secretary of the United Kingdom said on Friday.
W.H.O. officials did an about-face Thursday on the agency’s coronavirus testing guidelines, proclaiming that broad-based population tests are “not really that useful.”
Four members of an indigenous tribe in India’s remote Andaman Islands have tested positive for the coronavirus, Indian health officials said on Thursday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro advised journalists during remarks at an event with doctors on Monday that they have a lower chance of surviving a Chinese coronavirus infection because they are “fat-asses.”
A North Korean state propaganda website announced the creation of a domestically accessible website to help citizens quit smoking on Sunday, news that arrives as Pyongyang expedites the construction of a new hospital and insists it has yet to be affected by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
An astonishing ten per cent of care homes in the United Kingdom were told by National Health Service (NHS) managers to introduce do not resuscitate (DNR) orders for patients during the height of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. A survey conducted
