A newborn baby in India has been named ‘Corona’ because the deadly virus has “brought the world closer” together. The baby girl was born on 22nd March in the city of Gorakhpur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the day the country observed a self-imposed curfew which Prime…
Belgium has admitted it destroyed 32 million unused sterilised surgical masks just months before the massive Coronavirus outbreak in Europe and now the country is running low on supplies for medics. The strategic reserve that the Belgian health body had stored since the 2009 H1N1 swine flue pandemic was destroyed…
Professional cyclist Harm Vanhoucke says he was “repeatedly punched and kicked” during an attack by a driver whilst he trained outdoors during Belgium's coronavirus lockdown. The incident took place in the Belgian village of Aalbeke located in the province of West Flanders on Saturday 21st March where Belgian native and…
These images show how taxi drivers have parked their vehicles across a motorway to keep tourists out of their city amid the Coronavirus outbreak. The blockade took place on the motorway between the Colombian capital of Bogota and the city of Villavicencio in the Department of Meta in central Colombia.…
A Japanese patient with COVID-19 who went to two bars because he wanted to “spread the virus” has died of the illness aged 57. The unnamed man from the city of Gamagori in the central Japanese prefecture of Aichi previously had liver cancer and he died of virus-related issues in…
