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Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier Volker Bouffier said Sunday. Schaefer, 54, was found dead near a railway track on Saturday. The Wiesbaden prosecution’s office said they believe he …

Amidst the COVID-19 scare ravaging throughout the world, many people are holding various views on the cause of the outbreak. To some, it is a normal pandemic like the previous ones that demands the pooling of expertise together to help curb it. However, some people belong to the school of …

News of the Queen testing positive for COVID-19 does not come as a surprise since there was a possibility that she could have been exposed by the virus during one of her weekly meetings with Prime Minister Boris Johnson who tested positive an hour ago, according to UCR. Royal Palace confirms Queen Elizabeth tests …

The princess of the Bourbon-Parma Royal Family in Spain, passed away at the age of 86, after contracting the virus days earlier, Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, announced. She was born in Paris, France on July 28, 1933 to parents, Prince Xavier and Madeleine de Bourbon, who had a t …

US President Donald Trump has said he is considering imposing a quarantine on New York in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. “We’d like to see [it] quarantined because it’s a hotspot,” he told reporters. “I’m thinking about that.” He spoke as confirmed cases in the state …

The police in Delta state is currently on the trail of one Onuwa Oliseh for allegedly killing his 7-year-old nephews, Chiagozie and Chidalu Agwunobi, for money rituals in Oko Ogbele Community, Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State. The distraught father of the deceased twins, 52 year old Agwunobi Oliseh, said the …

AChinese national was reportedly left to his own fate after he was involved in a car accident amidst the wake of Coronavirus pandemic. The man was stuck inside the car pleading for help but people were just looking at him instead of rescuing his life. It took the intervention of …

United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has tested positive for coronavirus, Downing Street says. His symptoms are mild and he will continue to lead the government response to the virus while he self-isolates, a spokesman says. Source: BBC

The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country, with more than 85,500 positive tests. According to the latest figures collated by Johns Hopkins University, the US has overtaken China (81,782 cases) and Italy (80,589). But with almost 1,300 Covid-19-related fatalities, the US death toll lags …

A Mexican governor, Miguel Barbosa, has stated that poor people are immune to the coronavirus as he argued that majority of the country’s cases are wealthy people. The coronavirus is an ongoing global pandemic, which is responsible for the death of over 23,000, and the governor of the city of Puebla, in Mexico has …