Covid-19 pandemic to be 'far more deadly' this year, WHO chief sends out strong warning
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a strong warning that the second year of Covid-19 is set to be "far more deadly." Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, (WHO) Director-General issued the warning on Friday, May 14. He stated that "we’re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first." The DG …
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Japanese doctors perform world's first living donor lung transplant to a Covid-19 patient
Japanese doctors have performed what doctors say is the world's first lung transplant from living donors to a recovered coronavirus patient after operating on a Japanese woman whose lungs were severely damaged by Covid-19. According to Kyoto University Hospital in Japan, the woman underwent an 11-hour operation by a 30-strong medical team on Wednesday…
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Beijing overtakes New York City as City with most billionaires in the world after bouncing back from Covid-19
Beijing now has more billionaires than any other city in the world after bouncing back quickly from Covid-19, according to the Forbes' 2021 World's Billionaires List. The Chinese capital added 33 billionaires last year and now hosts 100, said the business magazine. This narrowly beats New York City, which hosts 99 and has previously held the top s…
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Queen Elizabeth to be removed as Barbados head of state in November 2021
The Government of Barbados has announced plans to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. The process of Queen Elizabeth’s removal would be complete in November 21 when the nation marks the 55th anniversary of independence from Britain. The decision was taken last year when a government statement said, “The time has come to fully leave our colonia…
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UK stops recruitment of doctors and nurses from Nigeria and 46 other countries
The recruitment of health and care workers from Nigeria and 46 other countries has been suspended by the United Kingdom government as confirmed in its updated Code of Practice (CoP). Africa Check had earlier reported that about 5, 250 Nigerian-trained doctors are on the UK books as at April 2018, a rise of 10 per cent on the previous year. The Sun repor…
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Search engine Bing mistakenly lists Prince Philip as dead (photo)
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing has mistakenly claimed UK Royal Prince Philip has died in hospital. As at press time, a search for ‘Duke of Edinburgh’ or ‘Prince Philip’ on the search engine brings up a fact box which says he was born on June 10, 1921 in Corfu and died in 2021 in King Edward VII Hospital. The latest news of the Duke’s illness from Buckingh…
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French billionaire politician, Olivier Dassault dies at 69 in helicopter crash
French billionaire politician, Olivier Dassault has died in a helicopter crash in north-western France. The accident occurred on Sunday evening, March 7, in Normandy where he has a holiday home. The 69-year-old, who was the eldest son of the late French billionaire Serge Dassault, was returning to Paris following a weekend in the English Channel resort of…
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Elon Musk loses $27billion in just one week and falls behind Jeff Bezos to become the world's second-richest man
Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk has lost $27 billion in wealth in the space of one week amid a selloff in the company's stock. Musk, 49, was worth $157 billion after markets closed on Friday, marking a 15 percent plunge in his net worth from the beginning of the week, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He is now firmly in the No. 2 spot and $…
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Thousands of fake Covid-19 vaccines seized in South Africa and China (photos)
Thousands of fake COVID-19 vaccine doses have been seized in South Africa and China as Interpol warned the raids were 'only the tip of the iceberg.' The international police body said roughly 2,400 doses of fake coronavirus vaccines in 400 ampoules were seized with a 'large quantity' of face masks at a warehouse in Germiston, Sout…
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South Korea's first transgender soldier, Byun Hee-soo, found dead at 23
South Korea’s first transgender soldier, who was forcibly discharged after having gender reassignment surgery, has reportedly been found dead. Firefighters found Byun Hee-soo, 23, in her home in Cheongju, south of Seoul, after a mental health counsellor called emergency services to report that she had not been heard from since Sunday, news agenc…
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China makes covid-19 anal swabs compulsory for foreign travelers
Authorities in China have reportedly made anal COVID-19 swabs compulsory for all foreign travelers arriving in the country. The government has claimed that such tests provide a higher degree of accuracy than other screening methods for the virus, the Times UK reported. As part of the new travel requirement, there will be testing hubs in Beijing and Shanghai…
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It's “premature” and “unrealistic” to think the COVID-19 pandemic will be over by the end of the year - WHO warns
The World Health Organization has said it is “premature” and “unrealistic” to think the COVID-19 pandemic will be over by the end of the year despite reports of slow spread of the virus in some countries due to lockdowns and vaccination programs. Speaking at a press briefing in Geneva, WHO's executive director of emergency services, Dr Michael Ryan s…
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Stop doing anal Covid tests on our citizens, Japan tells China
The Japanese government has asked Chinese authorities to stop carrying out anal swab tests for Covid-19 on its citizens because the procedure causes psychological pain. Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Katsunobu Kato, said some Japanese reported the procedure at the country's embassy in China. “Some Japanese reported to our embassy in China that…
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Iran rejects nuclear talks with U.S
The Islamic Republic of Iran has rejected nuclear talks with the United States. The Biden administration had proposed the talks as part of its efforts to negotiate a path back to the 2015 nuclear deal that was abandoned by Trump in 2018 paving the way to waves of economic sanctions on the country. But even with a less hostile US administration now i…
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Elon Musk takes back world’s richest man title after gaining almost $10 billion in a day
Billionaire, Elon Musk bounced back strongly to become the world’s richest man after a daily gain of $9.81 billion on Wednesday, February 24. Tesla, Musk's company surged back to $190 billion, after the electric car company’s shares recorded impressive gains of 6.18%, thereby putting the market value of Tesla at $712 billion coupled with the SpaceX he f…
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El Chapo's wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro arrested for Drug Trafficking
The wife of notorious Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera has been on drug trafficking charges. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was taken into custody on Monday, February 22, at Dulles International Airport. She is scheduled to make her appearance in federal court soon in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia via vide…
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NAACP sues Trump and Giuliani over US Capitol attack
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, have sued former US President Donald Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and two right-wing extremist groups, alleging they conspired to incite the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The lawsuit, filed on…
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘to be stripped of remaining royal patronages’ ahead of "Tell-All' with Oprah Winfrey
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly set to lose all their remaining royal patronages. This comes after it was announced that the couple have recorded a 90 miniutes 'tell-all' TV special with Oprah Winfrey. Palace insiders have said there is ‘no way back’ to official duties for the couple, who quit as working royals and uprooted to the US …
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Nancy Pelosi announces plans to open a '9/11-type commission' to investigate Capitol attack
Days after former US president Donald Trump's acquittal by the US Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced in a letter to House Democrats, plans for the creation of a "9/11-type commission" to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. A commission of this nature would be established by a statute, passed by both chambers and…
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Eight-day-old baby girl killed by pack of monkeys that stole her and her twin sister from their bed
An eight-day-old baby has died after being snatched from her bed by a group of monkeys. The girl’s mum was devastated to find her newborn twin girls gone from their beds after a pack of primates invaded her home on Saturday, Feb 13, in Mela Alangam (West Rampart) near Thanjavur Palace in India. Locals spotted the animals carrying the babies across rooftops …
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