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Month: March 2021

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli who urged citizens ‘to pray coronavirus away’ has died after weeks unseen

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, the country’s vice president announced in a televised address on Wednesday. He was 61. “President John Magufuli died of a heart ailment that he has battled for over 10 years,” Samia Suluhu Hassan said. She added that the president had been receiving

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Jackson, Mississippi, gets clearance to lift boil water notices weeks after brutal winter storms

All boil water notices in the city of Jackson, Mississippi — put in place after last month’s powerful winter storms — have been lifted, city officials announced in a Facebook post on Wednesday. “The City of Jackson has officially received clearance from the Mississippi State Department of Health to lift the precautionary boil water notice

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The race between variants and vaccines in US will be a close call, expert warns, and eased restrictions aren’t helping

Experts say there’s a tough race between Covid-19 vaccinations and a contagious variant that’s rapidly spreading across the US, threatening another dangerous surge — and the eased restrictions only further complicate things. “It’s going to be a close call,” Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health told CNN on Tuesday.

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There have been at least 10 suspected hate crimes against Asians this year in New York City, police say

At least 10 suspected anti-Asian hate crimes have been committed in New York City between January 1 and March 14 this year, according to statistics from the New York Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force. The information highlights the recent spate of anti-Asian incidents felt in cities nationwide, coinciding with the Covid-19 pandemic that began

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There have been at least 10 suspected hate crimes against Asians in 2021 in New York City, police say

At least 10 suspected anti-Asian hate crimes have been committed in New York City between January 1 and March 14 this year, according to statistics from the New York Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force. The information highlights the recent spate of anti-Asian incidents felt in cities nationwide, coinciding with the Covid-19 pandemic that began

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