The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has asked students with symptoms of COVID-19 to stay at home as resumption of the Senior Secondary School 3 begins this week nationwide. The PTF faulted state governments asking students to produce results of their COVID-19 tests before resumption. It said instead...
President again contradicts his own health expert after doctor highlights troubled US response to virus Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on his own top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, arguing against the doctor’s claim that high rates of infection in the US stem from a less agg...
US tech giant Microsoft has confirmed that it is continuing talks to purchase the US operations of Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok. Microsoft boss Satya Nadella had a conversation with President Donald Trump about the acquisition on Sunday, the tech firm said. Microsoft stressed that it “fu...
The 93-year-old retired pontiff is said to have had a facial infection since returning to Rome after a visit to Germany. Former Pope Benedict XVI is ill with shingles after returning to the Vatican from a visit to Germany, a newspaper citing his biographer has reported. The 93-year-old retired pontiff h...
Africa’s biggest grocery retailer, Shoprite has announced plans to exit Nigeria, the continent’s biggest market, after 15 years of opening its first store in the country. According to a statement by the Cape Town-based retailer, it has started a formal process to consider the potential sale of all or a...
It comes after the prime minister said he wants 500,000 coronavirus tests to be available every day by October. New rapid tests that can detect coronavirus in just 90 minutes will start to be used in care homes and labs from next week. The two new types of test do not require trained health staff ...
