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 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 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…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US economy shed 701,000 jobs last month as the coronavirus crisis brought the nation’s nine-year hiring streak to a screeching halt, new federal data show. The losses in non-farm payrolls reflected a massive contraction from February, when the economy added a revised total of 275,000 jobs, the federal Bureau of Labor…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Last month, residents of Kiryas Joel, a New York village of 35,000 Hasidic Jews roughly an hour’s drive from Manhattan, began hearing about a promising treatment for the coronavirus that had been rippling through their community. The source was Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, 46, a mild-mannered family doctor with offices near the village….
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Russian military transport plane is on its way to the US, carrying medical equipment and other supplies required to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The shipment, cited by many as a public relations coup for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, began on Wednesday following a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump forty-three…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Former Vice President Joe Biden is calling for an immediate nationwide stay-at-home order to contain the spread of the coronavirus, saying the main mistake that leaders can make in a pandemic is “going too slow.” The Democratic presidential candidate told CNN on Friday that he agreed with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A McGill University student who is recovering from a COVID-19 infection has a message for anyone tempted to take the novel coronavirus lightly: listen to directives to limit contact with others. “It isn’t about what would happen to you if you got it,” Ntando, a 22-year-old studying psychology, said Friday. “It’s more important…