Facebook To Collect User Geolocation Data To Fight Coronavirus
Facebook is launching tools to help scientists and healthcare professionals fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The company will collect location information from users. A social media management team will provide scientists with information about user geolocation. This will help calculate the likelihood of people coming into contact in a particular location and find out what places they are likely to visit. The...
BREAKING: UK’s Official Coronavirus Death Toll Leaps By 786 In A Day
Today has been Britain's darkest day yet in its coronavirus crisis with 786 more fatalities confirmed in the past 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 6,159 victims. A 23-year-old who had no other known health problems was among those who have died, as well as hundreds of others aged up to 102. In total, 29 people did not...
BREAKING: ‘No Change’ In Boris Johnson’s Condition, Remains In Intensive Care
Boris Johnson is still battling coronavirus in intensive care today with 'no change' in his condition overnight - amid a wave of support from across the nation. Mr. Johnson was moved to ICU at St Thomas' Hospital in central London and given oxygen after his health deteriorated sharply over just two hours, leaving doctors fearing he will need a ventilator. The 55-year-old...
WHO Refuse Testing Coronavirus Vaccine In Africa
Tedros Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation, has dismissed as “racist” a suggestion by two French scientists that the coronavirus vaccine should be tested in Africa. Science professors, Jean-Paul Mira of Cochin Hospital in Paris and Camille Locht of Inserm, France’s national medical research centre, appeared on French television LCI on April 2 to debate potentials for COVID-19 cures. Mr Mira wondered if...
VIDEO: Americans Are All Praying For Boris Johnson, Says Donald Trump
President Donald Trump offered his support for Boris Johnson after the UK prime minister was taken into intensive care in London on Monday. 'I want to send best wishes to a very good friend of mine, and a friend to our nation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson,' Trump said at his daily White House briefing. 'We are very saddened to hear that he was taken into intensive care this afternoon a little while...
BREAKING: Boris Johnson In Intensive Care After COVID-19 Symptoms Worsen
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken into intensive care in hospital with coronavirus. A Downing Street spokesman has confirmed Boris Johnson has been taken to intensive care this evening, he is understood to still be conscious. The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has been asked to deputise for him. A No10 spokesman said: "Since Sunday evening, the Prime Minister has...
COVID-19: Dead Bodies On The Street In Ecuador (PHOTOS)
Bodies are being left to rot on the side of the road as officials struggle to cope with coronavirus deaths in an Ecuadorian city. At least 150 corpses were left on the street or kept in the homes of grieving relatives in Guayaquil as the deadly bug ravages the horror-struck port city. The bodies were placed on the roadside in the desperate hope that...
Coronavirus Hit Boris Johnson Receives Oxygen Treatment In Hospital
Coronavirus-hit Boris Johnson is having checks in hospital today amid calls to hand over the reins of the UK's fight against the disease while he recovers. The PM was dramatically admitted to St Thomas's, near Downing Street, last night after doctors became concerned his symptoms have still not subsided 10 days after his positive test. Mr. Johnson is thought to have...
Tiger At New York’s Bronx Zoo Tests Positive For Coronavirus
Nadia, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York, has become the first of her kind to test positive for the coronavirus. The 4-year-old female Malayan tiger tested positive after developing a dry cough and is expected to recover, the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo said in a news release. Samples from Nadia were taken and tested after the tiger...
PM Johnson Admitted To Hospital Over Coronavirus Symptoms
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus, Downing Street has said. He was taken to a London hospital on Sunday evening with “persistent symptoms” – including a temperature. It is said to be a “precautionary step” taken on the advice of his doctor. The prime minister remains in charge of the...
