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Global Corona Virus Update
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production with an implicit trust from it’s sources, gives you a glimpse into the present stand of the Novel Covid-19 globally.
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 793,847 people worldwide since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Friday.
At least 22,734,900 cases have been registered in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least 14,298,000 are now considered recovered.
The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries are testing only symptomatic or the most serious cases.
On Thursday, 6,209 new deaths and 273,683 new cases were recorded worldwide. Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were the United States with 1,213 new deaths, followed by Brazil with 1,204 and India with 983.
The United States is the worst-hit country with 174,290 deaths from 5,575,386 cases. At least 1,947,035 people have been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 112,304 deaths from 3,501,975 cases, Mexico with 59,106 deaths from 543,806 cases, India with 54,849 deaths from 2,905,823 cases, and the United Kingdom with 41,403 deaths from 322,280 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is Belgium with 86 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Peru with 82, Spain 62, the United Kingdom 61, and Italy 59.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 84,917 cases, including 4,634 deaths and 79,792 recoveries.
Latin America and the Caribbean overall have 252,233 deaths from 6,501,985 cases, Europe 212,135 deaths from 3,648,960 infections and the United States and Canada 183,376 deaths from 5,699,039 cases.
Asia has 85,076 deaths from 4,322,802 cases, Middle East 33,556 deaths from 1,375,745 cases, Africa 26,964 deaths from 1,159,513 cases, and Oceania 507 deaths from 26,861 cases.
As a result of corrections by national authorities or late publication of data, the figures updated over the past 24 hours may not correspond exactly to the previous day’s tallies.
SOURCES__WHO, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Channels TV
Nigeria’s COVID-19 Cases Top 51,000 As Death Toll Hits 996
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production unveil to you the drastic increase of Corona Virus in Nigeria.
For recording 340 new cases of the novel coronavirus, according to what we get from our reliable source Channels TV
The new infections in Nigeria brings the country’s toll of caseload to 51,304 with a combined death toll of 996; 37,885 persons have recovered from the virus.
The health agency released the latest figures in a late-night tweet on Friday.
Of the new cases, Kaduna reported the highest among the states with 63, while the FCT ranked second with 51.
Other regions with new cases include Plateau-38, Lagos-33, Delta-25, Gombe-21, Adamawa-21, Edo-20, Katsina-17, Akwa Ibom-11, Ekiti-10, Rivers-9, Ondo-5, Ebonyi-4, Cross River-3, Ogun-3, Sokoto-2, Imo-2, and Nasarawa-2.
Source___Channels TV
Coronavirus pandemic could be over within two years – WHO head says
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production unbosom to you the message disclose by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) that he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be over in under two years.
Speaking in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Spanish flu of 1918 had taken two years to overcome.
But he added that current advances in technology could enable the world to halt the virus “in a shorter time”.
“Of course with more connectiveness, the virus has a better chance of spreading,” he said.
“But at the same time, we have also the technology to stop it, and the knowledge to stop it,” he noted, stressing the importance of “national unity, global solidarity”.
The flu of 1918 killed at least 50 million people.
Coronavirus has so far killed almost 800,000 people and infected nearly 23 million.
On Friday, a number of countries announced their highest numbers of new cases in months.
South Korea recorded 324 new cases – its highest single-day total since March.
As with its previous outbreak, the new infections have been linked to churches, and museums, nightclubs and karaoke bars have now been closed in and around the capital Seoul in response.
SOURCES__BBC, Reuters, Aljazeera
IS MODOU LAMIN MARONG THE NEXT GAMBIA FOOTBALL SAVIOR?
Afrinity Production today draw cognizance on Modou Lamin Marong, a Gambian Sweden based professional football player. He is 22 years old and started his football career since he was a kid.
Growing up in the Gambia and from a small village in Niumi Mayamba in the North Bank Region of the Country. Football has always been his passion since he was young.
Lamin Marong played for football clubs like JONSERED IF in which he scored a total goal of 18 and 12 assist before playing for his present team ROBERTSFORS IK which he joined in less than a month and scored 2 goals.
Staying in Sweden for about 4 years, Marong has scores not less than 20 goals due to his unique skills, his pace, fastness and goal scoring ambitions. He made known of his experience in Sweden and how learning under different coaches has helped him.
Modou Lamin Marong has interviews with BBC and other well known Media houses as he plan further on how he want to take The Gambia to the world.
When ask about what his weakness is, Marong replied “My weakness in football is I hate loosing.”
He further said, “Yes football is My Dream. And I am living in my Dreams now”.
BY Amie T. Camara
Corona Virus Update in The Gambia
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production can confidently brief you on the state of Covid-19 in the Gambia.
The Gambia on the 19 reported 14 new Covid-19 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 77. According Standard Newspaper, not all deaths occurred on a single day; sampling dates spanned from the 14th to the 1 7th August.
Out of the 14 deaths 13 are males and 1 female. The new 172 cases registered took the total number of Covid-19 cases ever confirmed in the Gambia to 2,288.
This made the country to have 302 people in quarantine, 1 , 776 active cases, 198 probable cases and a crude fatality ratio of 3.4%. Banjul recorded more cases than any other location within WRI.
Meanwhile, the Gambia yesterday confirmed another 4 deaths which took the death toll to 81 at the moment.
Credit___Standard___Newspaper
President Buhari Calls For Immediate Release Of Malian President Keita
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production reveal to you that President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has called for the immediate release of Malian president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and a return to constitutional order in the West African nation.
According to Channels TV, a statement by the Nigerian State House said Buhari made the call on Thursday during a virtual meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
“President Keita and other detainees should be released unconditionally and with immediate effect,” the Nigerian leader said.
He assured that Nigeria is in support of “the efforts of President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, for wider regional and continental consultations, especially on the possibility of detaching ECOWAS and AU troops with the UN Mission in Mali, to protect State Institutions and also act as the first layer of defence in the country to help preserve and protect lives and property.”
According to the Nigerian leader, the removal of the Malian President could have “devastating consequences” for the country and the West African sub-region.
“Today, Mali has not only descended into political chaos but also socio-economic and security disaster with potentially tragic consequences to Mali and the sub-region,” he explained.
While commending the African Union, the UN and other international bodies for condemning the coup in Mali, he called on them to work with ECOWAS in the restoration of peace to the country.
“ECOWAS, the AU, and the UN should not stand by, while the situation deteriorates,” he said.
“Thus far, their strong statements of condemnation are sincerely appreciated and I urge them to continue to walk this route together with us until sanity returns to Mali with the restoration of Civil Administration.”
Source___Channels TV
Our Biggest Challenge Has Been The Attitude Of Nigerians – Boss Mustapha
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production unveil to you the challenges made known by the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, on Thursday, as he ripped into the attitude of Nigerians, placing the blame for the country’s failure to have halted the escalation of the pandemic in Nigeria.
In an impassioned speech during the briefing of the PTF, Mustapha who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation said everything was put in place to stop the pandemic from spreading as much as it has in the country. The only thing missing was the right attitude.
“Our biggest challenge has been the attitude of Nigeria; that is our biggest challenge,” he said, reflecting on the fact that confirmed cases in the country have exceeded 50,000 with the death toll just 15 cases shy of 1,000.
A visibly upset Mustapha suggested that rather than follow guidelines, Nigerians thought only about their rights, failing to realise that the rights came with “correspondent responsibilities”.
“We would have flattened the curve. We would have dampened this ravaging virus by now if we had just complied with the simple instructions,” he lamented.
Another area Mustapha took up issues with Nigerians is in testing.
Since the first case of the pandemic was confirmed in Nigeria on February 27 and as Nigeria struggled to contain the spread, there have been concerns about the country’s testing capacity.
Although the country has ramped up its testing capacity, the PTF Chairman is unsatisfied with the attitude of Nigerians towards getting tested.
Nigeria with a population estimated at over 200 million has not tested up to 500,000 samples while South Africa with a population of 57 million has tested more than three million people.
Apart from the attitude, Mustapha doesn’t see any major problem with Nigeria’s response.
For him, money wasn’t really the problem. Neither was it the absence of a plan.
Source___Channels TV
US demands restoration of UN sanctions against Iran
By Amie T. Camara
As confidently known by Afrinity Production, we can clearly disclose to you the United States moved on Thursday to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran, this includes an arms embargo, arguing Tehran was in violation of a nuclear deal it struck with world powers in 2015 even though it is unveil to Afrinity Production that Washington itself abandoned that agreement two years ago.
To clear this to you, you have to know that all the remaining parties to the nuclear deal – Germany, France, Britain, Russia and China -are immediately notified by the Security Council, in letters seen by Reuters, that they did not recognise the U.S. move.
The United States acted after the Security Council resoundingly rejected its bid last week to extend an arms embargo on Iran beyond its expiration in October.
“It is an enormous mistake not to extend this arms embargo. It’s nuts!” Pompeo told reporters at the United Nations as he harshly criticized what he described as the “one-sided, foolish” nuclear deal negotiated by former U.S. President Barack Obama.
President Donald Trump has called it the “worst deal ever.” The pact aimed to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons in return for sanctions relief and is enshrined in a 2015 Security Council resolution. Washington argues that it can trigger the snapback process because the resolution still names it as a participant to the nuclear deal.
Germany, France and Britain on Thursday described the U.S. attempt to trigger a sanctions snapback as “incompatible” with their efforts to support the already fragile nuclear deal, while Russia and China said it was “illegitimate.”
Source___Aljazeera
Joe Biden presents US election as a fight for the nation’s soul
By Amie T. Camara
Afrinity Production gladly brings to you former US Vice President Joe Biden acceptance speech of the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during a speech he delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington.
Afrinity Production can clearly disclose to you that Joe Biden has formally accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, describing in a televised speech to a virtual convention his vision for a new United States that is facing multiple crises at once.
“It is an America we can rebuild together,” Biden said, pledging to make control of the coronavirus outbreak his first act if elected president.
“We will never get our economy back on track. We will never get our kids safely back in schools. Never have our lives back until we deal with this virus,” Biden said.
“Joe Biden gave the speech of his lifetime, and he accomplished what he needed to, presenting an optimistic, forward-thinking voice for voters,” said Nichola Gutgold, a professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State University.
“He came across as ‘the president next-door’ offering a glimpse of his life as a young boy growing up in a small town, combining a folksy decency with policy points,” Gutgold told Al Jazeera.
“It was unlike any other convention speech in American history.”
Democrats used the four-day convention programme to frame the November election as a referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency and laid out a series of centre-left policies on key issues confronting the nation.
Source__Aljazeera, Reuters
As U.S. Schools Move to Reopen Despite Covid-19, Teachers Threaten to Strike
By Amie T. Camara
It is clear to Afrinity Production that Educators and families around the United States continued to grapple this week with the complicated realities of opening schools in the middle of a pandemic, as teachers’ unions threatened strikes, colleges rethought reopening plans on the fly, and school districts, discovering new cases, improvised quarantines and classroom cleanings.
The voice of teachers in the reopening debate took center stage Wednesday in Michigan, where the Detroit Federation of Teachers voted to authorize their executive committee to call for a strike over plans to open public schools for in-person learning.
“It’s just simply not safe for us to return into our buildings and classrooms right now,” the union said in a video statement before the vote, noting more than 1,400 virus-related deaths in the community.
New York City’s powerful teachers’ union sought to ramp up pressure on the mayor on Wednesday to delay or call off his plan to reopen the city’s 1,800 schools on Sept. 10. The president of the United Federation of Teachers threatened to sue the city or to support a strike if the city could not satisfy a list of safety demands, and called for all students and staff members to be tested before school starts.
Public sector employees are legally barred from striking in New York, but teachers have threatened to hold sickouts if they believe school buildings are not safe.
College-bound students were thrown a curve ball Wednesday when the College Board said that more than 178,000 students who signed up to take the SAT college admission test on Aug. 29 would probably not be able to do so because nearly half the testing sites in the nation are closed or operating at limited capacity. All told, some 402,000 students were scheduled to take the test that day.
Source___Reteurs
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