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Coronavirus: 5 Films To Look Out For While Self-Isolating

It is time to stay home in order to stay safe. Being home alone this period might be a bit boring because there is little to do. However, there are some films you can look out for during this period: Money Heist Season 4 of this movie is coming out 3rd April and it is something to look out for. Part 3, with eight episodes, was released on 19 July 2019. Part 4, also with eight episodes, will be released on 3 April 2020. Season 4 of the international drama titled, La Casa De Papel in Spanish, promises to be a full-scale war as predicted by Tokyo at the conclusion of last season. The ending to season 3 ended on quite a cliffhanger with The Professor on the run and the reveal that Raquel is in fact very much alive. Self Made Self Made is a film that tells the untold and highly irreverent story of black hair care pioneer and mogul Madam C. J. Walker, how she overcame hostile turn-of-the-century America, epic rivalries, tumultuous marriages, and some trifling ...

Coronavirus: Real Madrid Player Luka Jovic Faces Jail Time For Escaping Quarantine

Real Madrid  player,  Luka Jovic  is in trouble with the law after breaking  coronavirus  quarantine to be with his model girlfriend Sofija Milosevic in Serbia. ESPN reports that sources confirmed that Jovic flew from Spain to Serbia last Thursday after he was given the go-ahead to travel by Real Madrid’s medical department. Real Madrid players have been placed on quarantine at home with their Valdebebas training complex on lockdown after Trey Thompkins, a player from the of the club’s basketball team, tested positive for COVID-19 last week. Jovic apologised on social media that he was unaware of the strict restrictions implemented in Serbia upon his arrival. “While in Spain, I tested negative for coronavirus, and I decided to travel to Serbia to help and support our people and be close to my family, in agreement with my club. When I landed in Serbia, I again tested negative for coronavirus. I am very sorry that some people did their job unprofessi...

Spain overtakes China virus toll with 3,434 deaths

Spain’s coronavirus death toll overtook that of China on Wednesday, rising to 3,434 after 738 people died over the past 24 hours, the government said. The spiralling number of deaths came as Spain entered the 11th day of an unprecedented lockdown to try and rein in the COVID-19 epidemic that has now infected 47,610 people, the health ministry said.

Nigeria coronavirus case increases to 46

Nigeria’s centre for disease control on Wednesday morning confirmed two new cases of the coronavirus in the country, bringing the total number to 46. The two cases are located in Lagos and Osun States. “Two new cases of #COVID19 have been confirmed in Nigeria: 1 in Lagos and 1 in Osun,” NCDC tweeted. “Both cases are returning travellers to Nigeria in the last 7 days” “As at 07:00 am 25th March, there are 46 confirmed cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria. 2 have been discharged with 1 death.”

Loss Of Smell Could Reveal Hidden Coronavirus Cases Experts Say

FILES) This file handout illustration image obtained February 3, 2020, courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Lizabeth MENZIES / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / AFP From a mother unable to smell her baby’s nappy to a lawmaker who suddenly could not taste food, some coronavirus patients have described a loss of olfactory senses — and experts say this might be a new way to detect the virus. Ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists in Britain, the United States and France have noted a growing number of patients in recent weeks with anosmia — the abrupt loss of smell — and have said this could be a sign of COVID-19 in people who otherwise appear well. Official figures suggest the coronavirus has infected some 380,000 people as the pandemic proliferates around the world, but with many cases going undetec...

IOC Postpones Tokyo Olympics Till Next Year

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to no later than the summer of 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe, the International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday. The Games were scheduled for July 24-August 9, but after telephone discussions between IOC president Thomas Bach and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a historic joint decision was taken for the first postponement of an Olympics in peacetime. Abe had earlier said Bach was in “100 percent agreement” when Japan asked the IOC to push back the Games. The IOC had come under pressure in recent days to postpone the world’s biggest sporting event, with teams, athletes and sports bodies all calling for a delay. The postponement comes after top federations announced they would pull out of the Tokyo Games, the highest-profile event to be affected by a virus that has decimated the sporting calendar. Around 1.7 billion people across the world are in lockdown to prevent the further spread of a ...

Iceland Confirms First Death From Coronavirus

A member of the Syrian Civil Defence known as the “White Helmets” disinfects a hospital room, as part of preventive measures taken against infections by the novel coronavirus, in the Syrian town of Dana, east of the Turkish-Syrian border in the northwestern Idlib province, on March 22, 2020. AAREF WATAD / AFP Another 514 people have died in Spain over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 2,696, as the number of infections surged towards 40,000, the government said Tuesday.  As the health authorities step up the number of tests, the number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 rose by nearly 20 percent to 39,673, the health ministry said. At the same time, the death toll showed an increase of 23.5 percent over the figures from Monday. The new figures came as the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was to seek parliamentary approval to extend the state of emergency for an extra two weeks, until April 11, in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. O...