Tag: Coronavirus death
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Just in: Despite claims to remedy, Madagascar records first Coronavirus death
Madagascar on Sunday reported the first death of a patient suffering from novel coronavirus nearly two months after it was first detected in the country. According to local daily L’Express de Madagascar, the case is a 57-year-old man, a parking lot security officer at a hospital in the city of Toamasina. The first death comes…
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JUST IN: Ekiti records first Coronavirus death
A 29-year-old health worker, who was the third index case of coronavirus in Ekiti state, has been recorded as the first casualty after she died of the pandemic on Wednesday. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, announced this at a press conference in Ado Ekiti. Yaya-Kolade said the woman died on Wednesday around 6:58…
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U.S. overtakes Spain in coronavirus death toll, now second highest in the world
The United States coronavirus death toll is now the second highest in the world, after Italy. The U.S. overtook Spain early today, with new deaths recorded, taking the country’s tally to 14,797. Spain has 14,792 deaths. Italy, the world’s leader has 17,669 deaths. U.S. death toll is expected to go higher later today when figures…
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Coronavirus death toll surpasses 12,000 in US
The United States has recorded 12,291 deaths from the raging Coronavirus pandemic sweeping through all its 50 States. There are at least 387,547 cases of coronavirus in the United States and at least 12,291 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University’s tally of cases. So far Tuesday, there are at least 19,351 new cases…
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Italy’s Coronavirus death toll exceeds 10,000 despite lockdown
The coronavirus toll in Italy shot past 10,000 on Saturday and showed little sign of slowing despite a 16-day lockdown. The 889 new fatalities reported in the world’s worst-hit nation came a day after it registered 969 deaths on Friday — the highest single toll since the COVID-19 virus emerged late last year. Italy now…
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US records first Coronavirus death
The first death from the novel coronavirus has been confirmed on US soil, in Washington state, health officials said Saturday, after a handful of cases of unknown origin were detected, indicating the disease was spreading in the country. This is coming barely a week after President Donald Trump said America was doing a great job…
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Coronavirus death toll hits 350 in China
Chinese state television reported on Monday that the death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak in China’s central Hubei province rose by 56 to 350. There were another 2,103 cases detected in Hubei, the epicentre of the outbreak, taking the total in the province to 11,177 as of Feb. 2. Hubei’s provincial capital of Wuhan,…