AsiaWire This is the moment a six-storey coronavirus quarantine hotel in China collapses with 80 people inside, including 58 confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients. Authorities in the city of Quanzhou in East China’s Fujian Province say they have pulled 49 people from the rubble of Xinjia Hotel, but 10 were…
Egyptian authorities have confirmed Africa’s first COVID-19 fatality after a 60-year-old German tourist died of the deadly virus - also making it also the first German confirmed death. Egypt’s Ministry of Health said in a statement: “The 60-year-old German citizen showed symptoms of a fever (and) checked into Hurghada hospital…
In the wake of Turkish revelations about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Saudi television claims President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been “spreading coronavirus to the Arab world". The allegation, that has caused outrage in Turkey, was made on local channel ‘Saudi 24’, when…
A French pastry chef has prepared a sweet representation of the COVID-19 virus in a lighthearted attempt to “protect clients from fear and lunacy”. Jean-Francois Pre from Landivisiau in the north-western French department of Finistere told local media: “We've been hearing a lot about coronavirus (COVID-19) in the media and…
CEN/@MohamadAhwaze The man who filmed this terrifying footage of dozens of corpses of COVID-19 victims lined up in an Iranian hospital has been arrested by the authorities. The video, filmed in a hospital in the city of Qom in the northern Iranian province of the same name, was shared on…
