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 new Coronavirus that has killed more than 24,000 people continues to spread around the world, Russia has stepped up its measures to tackle the pandemic and prevent its spread within the country, there have been 1,036 cases of COVID-19 infections reported in Russia so far and 4 deaths. The authorities confirmed 196 new cases on Friday, bringing the country's official number of cases up to more than thousand and making the largest one-day increase in cases so far, it also said one person had died in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths to 4, Russia will suspend all regular and charter flights to other countries starting today, President Vladimir Putin has declared that the week from March 28 to April 5 will be a nationwide paid holiday to encourage Russians to stay home and slow the spread of the virus. All restaurants and cafes have been ordered to close during this time with the exception of delive...

                     The World Health Organization experts and according to latest statistics are saying that the United States is going to be the epicenter of Coronavirus outbreak, as the country is seeing a very large acceleration in cases, this comes amid concern the US president could be prioritizing the economy in his crisis response. Trump said he was eager to reopen the US economy in weeks, not months, even as the death toll from COVID-19 continued to rise, with more than 25,000 positive tests and 210 deaths, New York has become the epicenter of Coronavirus in the United States, the city now at a standstill faces a tsunami of sick and dying people , the Attack rate of the virus, the percentage of the population infected , is five times higher than in other parts of the country , leading Dr Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, to warn "To all of my friends and colleagues in New York, this is the gro...

                 As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads, households across the United States are hunkering down and emptying out store shelves that normally stocked with toilet paper and paper towels sit empty at all the big supermarket stores, toilet paper has become the ultimate symbol of the panic buying, it is seemingly scooped up as soon as new rolls hit the shelves, companies that help supply these everyday paper products are stunned and trying to adjust to this rapidly evolving new normal in consumer behavior. This run on toilet paper has struck many people as peculiar, given that the need for the product is not expected to grow as millions of Americans adjust to working from home, closed schools, canceled events and other abrupt interruptions to daily life caused by the pandemic, but stockpiling is not an uncommon reaction provoked by fear, social scientists say, fear of running out, fear of the unknown and what is coming in the fut...

                                    China and United States standoff escalates as Beijing expels major US media staff, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists among staff ordered to stop reporting and leave. China will expel US reporters of three major US news outlets, in a hugely damaging attack on foreign media coverage of the country and an escalation of the showdown over the press between Washington and Beijing. The decision announced just after midnight Beijing time, requires US citizens working for the three major media to halt reporting and hand in their press cards within 10 days, if their credential expire before the end of 2020. China usually gives journalists only 12 month visas and press cards, so the measure is likely to impact most correspondents, it will decimate some of the biggest newsrooms in China and force reporters with decades of experience cove...

                 Biological weapon expert Professor Francis Boyle says Continental observer that COVID-19 is a biological weapon came straight out of American laboratories: "The Corona Virus was designed as a weapon to spread effectively in the human population" with the complicity of the National Institutes of Health, with 27 institutes and research centers and more than 18,000 employees is the most major biomedical research center in the world, says the researcher who says that his accusations are only made by himself. These remarks prompted US and Arab media to republish a previous statement by Zhao Lejian the Foreign Ministry spokesman in which he accused America of being behind the manufacture of Corona Virus since 2015, for the professor who has read studies from Marseille and Montreal published in the Science Direct Antiviral Research, Wuhan Corona Virus came out of the laboratory BSL-4, it's an offensive agent of biological warf...

                Chinese official doubts the involvement of the United States military in bringing the Corona virus to his country. "Perhaps the US military bought the epidemic to Wuhan" In these terms, Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lejian official accused the United States of being behind the outbreak of the Corona Virus, which spread in China and recorded more than 87,000 infections according to the Chinese National Health Commission, without providing any evidence to support its surprising accusations. The Chinese official considered that Americans do not deal with the issue transparently, asking them to disclose for their data. It mentions that a number of similar conspiracy theories spread through the means of Chinese social medias. In this tweet, Zhao posted a video to the head of the US Center of Disease Control and prevention during a congress testimony in which he said that the cause of death of some Americans who were believed to h...

               President Trump tested negative for the coronavirus, his doctor said in a memo released Saturday evening. The president's health has been a concern since he spent time at his Florida resort last weekend with a Brazilian official who was later found to have the disease. Doctor Sean P.Conley said in his memo:"One week after having dinner with the Brazilian delegation at Mar-a-Lago, the president remains symptom-free" At a news conference earlier Saturday, Mr Trump announced that he had been tested for the coronavirus on Friday night and was awaiting the results. Vice President Mike Pence also announced the extension of the administration's European travel ban to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Whether the president would be tested had been a matter of speculation since it first emerged that a member of Brazilian delegation that visited Mar-a-Lago had tested positive. Two other people who were with the president have tested posi...

Corona Virus: Trump closes the United States to foreigners from Europe. US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the suspension for 30 days of entry into the United States for travelers who have recently stayed in Europe, except for  American citizens, a draconian measure supposed to stem the Corona Virus pandemic that triggered a new storm in the markets. Said Donald Trump in a solemn address - at times confused - from the White House Oval Office " I have decided to take strong but necessary action to protect the health and well-being of all Americans. To prevent new cases from entering our country, i will suspend all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days" He added deploring the fact that the European Union has not taken "the same precautions".  This measure, which will take effect Friday at midnight Washington time (04:00 GMT Saturday), will not affect the United Kingdom, said the Republican billionaire. It will apply to a...

CORONA VIRUS IMPROVES HYGIENE AND HEALTH HABITS AMONG MOROCCANS: Concerns about the transmission of the Corona Virus have caused a large group of Moroccan consumers to purchase sterilizers for cleaning hands and showers from shops, shopping malls and pharmacies, the high demand for these products contributed to the slight increase in prices in addition the disappearance of some of them temporarily, due to the lack of additional quantities destined for sale to the consumer in these stores. A group of Moroccan companies operating in the production of cleaning materials intended for personal use, have remedied the situation by raising the pace of production in response to the increasing demand for their products, The president of the Moroccan association of consumer rights, explained that the demand for the cleaning products made from alcohol and iodine, after the outbreak of Corona Virus in the world and the registration of a group of limited cases in Morocco, indicates the changing...