Belgian hospitals have reportedly been left without enough face masks after the government ordered 100,000 unusable masks - which were packed alongside animal poo. Local newspaper De Tijd reported having access to an exchange of e-mails between the hospitals in question and the Flemish Health Agency (Vlaams Agentschap Zorg en…
Picture Credit: Newsflash/Mironova&Mironov This Russian couple have been cheering up their countrymen by creating images with silly masks in the belief that a laugh is the best way to tackle fear around the COVID-19 pandemic. Konstantin and Polina Mironovs, from the western Russian city of Ekaterinburg in the Sverdlovsk Oblast…
Chinese authorities have arrested a convicted murderer who had been released early from prison before he allegedly pummelled a pensioner to death for reminding him to wear a mask. The incident has caused public uproar after court documents revealed that Guo Wensi, 38, had his life sentence for murder reduced…
The head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has said that people in Europe are wrong not to wear face masks days after Londoners were snapped on the tube without any. Agency director general George F. Gao said in an interview with ‘Science’, one of the world’s…
Newsflash/@manuel.pallinalar This is the moment ambulances sound their sirens outside the home of Zara founder Amancio Ortega on his birthday after he donated 300,000 face masks to medics. The incident was filmed outside Ortega’s house in the city of A Coruna in the north-western Spanish region of Galicia on his…