Today’s news brought to you via Google News. A plane heading from Turkey with badly needed stocks of PPE (personal protective equipment) has now landed in the UK, The Guardian reports. The emergency supplies are currently being checked before … Continue reading NEWS DIGEST 22.04.2020: PPE troubles and emergency flights for UK’s NHS
Today’s news digest comes in via Google News. Sky News reports that the British government has rejected an allegation made by the Sunday Times newspaper that it lost five weeks from when coronavirus was first reported in the UK to … Continue reading NEWS DIGEST 20.04.2020: Coronavirus government misadventures and denials
Today’s news comes via my own private Twitter account (you can follow me at @VShah1984). US President Donald Trump engaged in some of his trademark traditional self-promotion, tweeting an article from the Wall Street Journal where he was said … Continue reading NEWS DIGEST 15.04.2020: Trump speaks up for the shale industry, while the US people demand virus tests
Today’s news digest is brought to you via Google News. As the UK enters its fourth week of lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic affecting the world, The Guardian newspaper there reported that the foreign affairs secretary for state Dominic … Continue reading NEWS DIGEST 14.04.2020: National coronavirus lockdowns to be extended
The US President Donald Trump has backed down from imposing a statewide ‘lockdown’ on the state of New York, after yesterday insisting on the measure, called as New York became the worst affected area in the American coronavirus epidemic, … Continue reading NEWS DIGEST 29.03.2020: Coronavirus quarantine U-turns and North Korean missile tests
London, United Kingdom VIJAY SHAH via CHARLIE DUFFIELD/i As the coronavirus epidemic in the UK reaches 1,200 cases with 21 deaths as of yesterday, police in the country have now been giving sweeping powers to detain anyone found … Continue reading COVID19 EMERGENCY: New powers for police to detain infected
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the Ebola virus crisis in West Africa could be dangerously underestimated as families hide members afflicted by the highly fatal contagion for fear of quarantine and persecution, according to a report by America‘s Fox News. The warning also claims the existence of ‘shadow zones’ where medics have no presence, means that many people are carrying or perishing from the virus without medical agencies realising, making an effective response to the outbreak more challenging. Since the middle of this year, more than a thousand people have died in the West African states of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, with possibly several thousand more infected or likely to … Continue reading WEST AFRICA EBOLA CRISIS: WHO warns of ‘shadow zones’; hidden victims
