LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-African officials are confronting China publicly and in private over racist mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, and the U.S. says African-Americans have been targeted too. Some Africans in the commercial hub have reported being evicted or discriminated against amid coronavirus fears. And a U.S. Embassy security alert on…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-News surrounding the COVID-19 out break in China keeps on getting darker and darker. The Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China has made a preliminary announcement about how the government is planning to compensate the poor victims of COVID-19 in Wuhan, Hubei province. Liu Ken the minister of finance…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Dutch officials have recalled tens of thousands of masks imported from China and distributed to hospitals battling the coronavirus outbreak because they do not meet quality standards. They received a delivery of masks from a Chinese manufacturer on March 21, the health ministry said in a statement. The masks did not…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As many as 10% of recovered coronavirus patients in China tested positive again after being discharged from the hospital, according to a report. Doctors on the front lines of the outbreak in Wuhan, China — where the virus emerged — reported that between 3 and 10% of cured patients became reinfected with…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The majority of rapid test coronavirus test kits supplied by China to Spain and the Czech Republic are faulty, local news outlets reported. Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 portable, quick coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic earlier this month were faulty, according to local Czech news site Expats.cz. The…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An attorney who represented victims of the Las Vegas shooting massacre has filed a federal lawsuit against China’s government over the new coronavirus, saying Tuesday that officials hid information about the outbreak and that U.S. small businesses should receive billions of dollars in damages. The case seeks class-action status for 32 million…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The reports circulating online is not a cheering one considering the number of deaths recorded so far globally as a result of Coronavirus (COVID19). The world as it is now is battling Coronavirus. Countries like Italy and Spain are in serious emergency as a result of it. Online report has it that…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Political skirmishing between Washington and Beijing escalated Tuesday when China announced it was expelling expelling U.S. journalists working for three American news outlets in response to Trump administration restrictions on Chinese media here. U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo condemned China’s action and accused the Chinese of imperiling world health by…