An actual mass wedding ceremony in the Philippines saw face masks and health checks included in the proceedings this year. The precautions have been brought in due to the threat of coronavirus. The city of Bacolod, Philippines saw 220 couples married in the government-sponsored event. Find thelink to
When Kem Senou Pavel Daryl, a 21-year-old Cameroonian student living in the Chinese city of Jingzhou, contracted the coronavirus he had no intention of leaving China, even if that were possible. "No matter what happens I don't want to take the sickness back to Africa," he
Epidemiology and Disease Control (Ministry of Health and Child Care) Director Dr Portia Manangazira has confirmed the first suspected case of corona virus in Zimbabwe. Speaking to a local publication Manangazira indicated that the case is of a 27-year-old woman who is being held in quarantine
China on Wednesday said it would revoke the credentials of three Wall Street Journal reporters working in mainland China, in a significant escalation of Beijing’s pressure on foreign news organizations. A spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the move was in retaliation for a
China national coronavirus death toll reaches 1,770 China reported a total of 1,770 deaths from coronavirus to the end of Sunday, with 100 of the 105 new fatalities recorded in Hubei, the centre of the outbreak, the National Health Commission said. There were 2,048 new
The first coronavirus case on the African continent was confirmed by Egypt's Health Ministry, Friday. The affected person is a foreigner who had been put into isolation at a hospital, it said in a statement. It added that it had immediately informed the World Health Organization
The Chinese embassy has confirmed that Zimbabwean nationals living in China are safe from the deadly COVID-19 which has so far claimed 1400 lives in Asia. During a press conference at the Chinese embassy today, Ambassador Guo Shaochun said no Zimbabwean nationals have been reported of
The First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in partnership with a United States based organisation yesterday donated 200 solar kits to Beatrice rural hospital as part of the Light Every Birth initiative meant to provide clean renewable energy for safe child birth in the country. Speaking during hand-over
Ning Zhu, a nurse in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the heart of a deadly coronavirus outbreak, is restless. Instead of helping on the frontlines, she has been under self-quarantine at home for weeks, after a chest scan on January 26 revealed that she
NBCNEWS The number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus outbreak in China rose by more than 100 on Monday, bringing the total number of deaths across the country's 31 provinces to 1,016, officials said. The number of deaths is well beyond the toll of the 2002-03 outbreak
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