Coronavirus infections across the United States have passed 2.5 million, with record numbers of cases reported in the states of Florida and Texas. The surge in cases in southern states comes after businesses were allowed to re-open in recent weeks. On Saturday, Florida reported more than 9,500 new …
Read More »Trump orders statues be protected from ‘mob rule’
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for protesters who target monuments to be imprisoned. The measure says anyone who damages a public statue must be prosecuted to the “fullest extent of the law”. Mr Trump’s order also calls for withholding federal funds from local jurisdictions and …
Read More »Coronavirus: US hits record high in daily cases
The United States recorded an all-time daily high of 40,000 coronavirus infections on Thursday, figures from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) show. A recent surge in infections and hospitalisations has prompted the states of Texas, Florida and Arizona to pause reopening plans. Texas’s governor ordered bars to close and announced other …
Read More »Coronavirus: Sweden says WHO made ‘total mistake’ by including it in warning
Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has rejected a warning from the World Health Organization that included Sweden among countries in Europe at risk of a Covid-19 resurgence. The WHO on Thursday said several countries and territories were seeing a rise in infections. Eleven were in the UN agency’s Europe region. …
Read More »SAD VIDEO: Woman receives ‘dirty slaps’ for coughing on Police
Wearing of face mask is now mandatory and refusal to comply is punishable by law per the new Executive Instrument issued by the president. But, it seems most people are yet to get the full idea of covering the nose and mouth in public space as a means to …
Read More »Coronavirus: New York imposes quarantine on nine US states
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have asked people travelling from states where virus cases are rising to go into self-isolation for 14 days. New Jersey’s Phil Murphy said people in the three states had been “through hell and back” and did not want “another round” of …
Read More »Pope Francis compared priests who defied lockdown measures to ‘adolescents’
Pope Francis praised healthcare workers and “obedient and creative” priests who served during the novel coronavirus pandemic. As for priests who acted in defiance of safety measures and guidelines, Francis compared their behavior to that of children. The Pope made his remarks Sunday at the Vatican, where he …
Read More »VIDEO: China deploys self-driving cars to deliver foods; disinfect places in the streets
As a way to reduce the spread of coronavirus, China, according to Mashable, is using self-driving vans called Hercules to deliver foods and disinfect streets. In a Tweet shared by Mashable on Saturday, June 20, it said that the vans have been doing the delivery and sanitisation works for the past …
Read More »Prez Donald Trump Suspends H-1B, H-4 Work Visas
The White House has extended the freeze on issuance of “green cards” for new immigrants and suspended range of work visas for foreigners, including all H-1B and H-4 (for H-1B spouses) till the end of 2020 in order to protect jobs of American citizens lost due to the …
Read More »Bible Sales on the Rise Due To COVID 19: Replace Fear with Faith
With uncertainty amidst the coronavirus pandemic and many people held up in their homes, people are ordering books online, especially the Good Book, according to some sources. For many Christians in Ghana, this is no accident, as people often go to the Bible as a source of hope …
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