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An Italian woman aged 104 years has recovered from coronavirus, becoming the oldest known Covid-19 survivor in the world. Ada Zanusso tested positive for Covid-19 last month after falling ill in a nursing home in Biella, where 20 elderly residents have since succumbed to the virus, according to the…

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after his health condition deteriorated. This comes a day after he was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in London on Sunday night for what Downing Street termed as “further tests.” His doctor advised him to go to the…

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma has donated additional medical equipment to Africa to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Ma, through Twitter on Monday, said his second donation to Africa includes 500 ventilators, 200,000 suits and face shields, 2,000 thermometers, one million swabs,…

A four-year-old Malayan tiger has tested positive for coronavirus in the United States, becoming the first of her kind to contract the disease. The female tiger named Nadia was tested for Covid-19 after developing a dry cough at the Bronx Zoo in New York, according to Wildlife Conservation Society’…

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital ten days after he was diagnosed with coronavirus, according to reports. Johnson, 55, has persistent symptoms including high temperature and was taken to hospital on Sunday evening on the advice of his doctor, BBC reports. A Downing…

A French doctor has issued an apology for suggesting that a possible coronavirus treatment/vaccine should first be tested in Africa. Jean-Paul Mira, the head of the intensive care unit at the Cochin Hospital in Paris, made the controversial remarks during a television interview. “If I could be…

Kenyans and Africans on social media are up in arms after French doctors suggested that a potential coronavirus vaccine should be first tested in Africa. Doctors Jean-Paul Mira and Camille Locht, in a television show, claimed that a trial for the vaccine would yield perfect results when done in…

An Indian couple has named their recently born twins as Covid and Corona, coming at a time when the coronavirus (Covid-19) disease continues to wreak havoc around the world. Speaking to the Press Trust of India, the couple said they decided to name the newborns Covid and Corona “in an effort to put…

Ethiopia on Thursday announced it is developing a cure for coronavirus (Covid-19). The country’s Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MoIT) said experts were developing what they termed as "a domestic treatment drug." The two ministries, in a joint statement,…

A class-action lawsuit accusing China of creating coronavirus (Covid-19) as a biological weapon to unleash on the world has been filed in the US. The lawsuit was filed in March in Dallas, Texas federal court by conservative attorney Larry Klayman, his group Freedom Watch and Buzz Photos, a Texas-…