LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The African Development Bank Group on Wednesday announced the creation of the COVID-19 Response Facility to assist regional member countries in fighting the pandemic. The Facility is the latest measure taken by the Bank to respond to the pandemic and will be the institution’s primary channel for its efforts to address the…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS) – A Senegal judge has granted Chad’s former dictator Hissene Habre two months’ leave from prison, where he is serving life for crimes against humanity, as the jail is being used to hold new detainees in coronavirus quarantine. Habre, who ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990, was convicted of war crimes…
LAGOS APRIL8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A video Trending online shows the Moment Some Nigerians in China were thrown out of their Homes and hotels by the Chinese Police amid Coronavirus Pandemic. In the video, Chinese police are seen chasing the Nigerian businessmen from their hotel asking them to go back to their Country. Nigerians are heard telling the…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As many as 4,000 seriously ill coronavirus patients in New York are being treated with the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, state health official said. Presient Trump has tauted hydroxychloroquine as potential life saver, although there is no wide spread scientific evidence to date showing it helps battle covid-19. But Governor Andrew Cuomo last…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A four-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the coronavirus. The tiger, named Nadia, is believed to be the first known case of an animal infected with Covid-19 in the US. The Bronx Zoo, in New York City, says the test result was confirmed by the National…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Europe saw further signs of hope in the coronavirus outbreak Sunday as Italy’s daily death toll was at its lowest in more than two weeks and its infection curve was finally on a downward slope. In Spain, new deaths dropped for the third straight day. But the optimism was tempered by…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bogus conspiracy theories linking the global COVID-19 outbreak to the rollout of 5G has lead to phone masts in the UK being set alight. The BBC reports that cellular towers in Birmingham, Liverpool and Melling in Merseyside were set alight within the last week, with the attacks now being investigated as possible arson. EE, which…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US on Friday set a new record for the number of COVID-19 deaths in one day with 1,480 dead, the most of any country since the pandemic began. That topped the record set by the US the previous day with 1,169 deaths. More than 57,000 people have died from COVID-19, and…