HEALTH

                 Charity group Oxfam have warned that a recession caused by Coronavirus could push an extra half billion people into poverty unless urgent action is taken, conducted by King's College London and the Australian National University, the research gauged the short-term impact of containing the Coronavirus on global monetary poverty based on the World Bank poverty lines from 1.90 $ to 5.50 $ a day, global poverty levels would increase under all three scenarios for the first time since 1990 according to the analysis with up to a decade of progress lost globally, the impact is set to be even worse in some hard hit parts of the world such as North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East where up to 30 years of progress could be wiped out. The most serious scenario involves a 20% fall in income which would result in an additional 548 million people earning less than the World Bank poverty threshold of 5.50$ per day, the Unit...

            As the daily number of new infections appears to be falling in parts of the world, some fear the epicenter of Coronavirus could move to continent, despite efforts to lock down cities and countries, donations of protective equipment, testing kits and ventilators from China, one thing is clear Africa has not yet flattened the curve and the room for man oeuvre is getting smaller. A healthcare facility in Kenya's funding, Nairobi has actually been creating brand new beds preparing for a surge in Coronavirus situations, Africa has actually passed the grim turning point of 10,000 reported situations of Coronavirus, together with greater than 500 fatalities, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ACDC, as the everyday number of brand new cases seems dropping in components of the globe, some worry the epicenter of the infection might relocate to the continent. Around 60% of Kenyan capital's 4.4 million inhabitants live in...

                  When the novel Coronavirus has reached 210 countries and territories around the world, several countries tested negative, ruling out the earlier suspected cases, although some of them later reported confirmed cases, according to the count being kept by the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus resource center. What should we make of the countries that have not reported cases? Are they unable to test? Are they lying about their reports? Are they that isolated? The bulk of the states that have not yet reported cases are small Pacific Island nations followed by a handful in Asia and Africa. The Solomon Islands reported 4 suspected cases of Coronavirus on February 10 on board the MV Expert container ship, which docked at the Rennell and Bellona province of the country, samples taken from the 4 cases were sent to the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory VIDRL based in Melbourne Australia for testing and ann...

                                              Earlier this year, when the first reports of the Coronavirus started to come out of China, globale health officials said they were very worried about what would happen if COVID-19 started spreading in Africa, where many health systems are already struggling, well Africa now affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, so far the number of reported cases remains growing more than 1,400 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been identified in 40 African countries that have so far spared from the Coronavirus outbreak, but in reality they are likely to be hit the hardest, according to recent assessment obviously brought to evolve, Uganda and Eritrea joined the list of African countries which announced last weekend their first confirmed cases, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mauritius and Kenya have reported additional cases, from Burkina Faso in west ...