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Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga has been captured in Paris 25 years after he went into hiding, French authorities confirmed on Saturday, May 16th.
French Justice Ministry said 84-year-old Kabuga was arrested in a flat in Asnieres-Sur-Seine, near Paris, where he was living under a fake…
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A US-born woman believed to be Spain’s oldest person has defeated the Covid-19 disease, becoming the oldest coronavirus survivor in the world.
113-year-old Maria Branyas was infected with the virus in April at the Santa Maria del Tura care home in Olot City, where she has lived for the past two…
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The US embassy in Dar es Salaam has raised alarm over the status of the Covid-19 pandemic in Tanzania even as the government continues to conceal information on the number of infections and fatalities.
The embassy asked American citizens in Tanzania to stay at home, saying that the situation in the…
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Rwanda has turned to technology to bolster its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
The country’s Health Ministry has imported five robots that will be used as an interface between patients and healthcare workers in Covid-19 treatment centers.
Rwandan Health Minister Daniel Ngamije said the…
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Health experts now fear that the Covid-19 disease could be transmitted through sex.
This is after researchers in China detected the infection in the semen of seven male patients suffering from the novel coronavirus, according to UK’s Daily Mail.
Semen from the seven Covid-19 patients were found to…
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Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli has ordered a probe into the country’s national laboratory over allegations of churning out falsified Covid-19 test results.
Speaking on Sunday, May 3rd, Magufuli indicated that they secretly sent to the lab samples extracted from among others, a goat,…
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has named his newborn son after two medics who saved his life last month.
The boy, who was born on Wednesday, April 29th, has been named Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson. He was given the middle name Nicholas in honor of two doctors who treated Johnson last month…
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Two Chinese doctors who were infected with Covid-19 while treating patients in Wuhan have had their skin turn dark after recovering from the virus.
The two; Dr. Yi Fan and Dr. Hu Weifeng, both 42, were diagnosed with Covid-19 on January 18th while working at the Wuhan Central Hospital.
Their skin…
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Media personality Richard Quest is the latest CNN employee to be infected with the coronavirus disease.
Quest, a business editor and host of ‘Quest Means Business’, said he tested positive for Covid-19 over the weekend.
“I have caught coronavirus. I am blessed in that I have a few symptoms – just a…
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A 68-year-old Nigerian woman has given birth to twins, becoming one of the world’s oldest new mums.
The sexagenarian successfully delivered the two babies at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), the chairman of the hospital’s Medical Advisory Council Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo announced in…