Minister of the Public Business Sector Hesham Tawfik said on Sunday that a plan was in the pipeline in coordination with the agriculture and trade ministries to develop Egypt’s cotton industry. The minister made the remarks at a meeting with Head of the Cotton Egypt Association Wael Olama, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for […]

As Egypt has recorded many coronavirus (COVID-19) cases amid doctors and nurses recently, Minister of Health Hala Zayed on Saturday said only around 12% of the infected medical staff working in the ministry’s hospitals were infected inside hospitals. Zayed ordered the formation of a central committee, she said, mainly to limit the spread of the […]

In Australia, previously mundane chores are being turned into a fun public outing in the midst of self-isolation. Just scroll down the Bin Isolation Outing Facebook group to see. Originally begun as a joke between friends, the page now has half a million members and counting — and is filled with photos and videos of folks around Australia […]

Staying at home to protect herself against the coronavirus, one 93-year-old had a big problem: she was running out of booze. Olive Veronesi decided the best way to keep her supplies up during the coronavirus lockdown was to get creative – and now, she’s gone viral on Facebook. The pensioner, from Pennsylvania, was pictured holding a whiteboard […]

The economic impact of COVID-19 on the holiday island of Phuket is worse than the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, according to Thai tourism chiefs. It is claimed in the first three months of 2020 the hotel industry alone lost more than 50bn baht (£1bn) due to a drop in tourists. To contain the rising number […]

Two weeks ago, Dr Steve Kassapidis, an ICU doctor in New York, told Sky News the scene in hospitals as “hell… biblical”. This was the first time anyone had revealed the true extent of life inside the city’s overwhelmed hospitals. A fortnight on, and New York is now at the peak of the crisis. Sky’s […]

The United States has now overtaken Italy to have the highest death toll from coronavirus in the world. The latest data, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, shows more than 20,000 people in the US have now died. The grim milestone comes shortly after the US became the first nation to record more than 2,000 virus deaths […]

Julian Assange secretly fathered two children while living inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, his partner has revealed. Stella Morris says she has been in a relationship with the Wikileaks founder since 2015 and has been raising their two young sons on her own. She spoke out amid fears over the spread of Covid-19 in […]

More than 190 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Tokyo on Saturday, a record daily increase for the fourth straight day, Kyodo News Agency quoted a metropolitan government official as saying. The figure topped the previous record of 189 marked Friday, bringing the total number of infections in the capital to about 1,900. Japan has […]

Three Egyptian doctors died from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the 43 others were infected with the virus nationwide so far, stated the Egyptian Medical Syndicate on Saturday. Two of the deceased doctors had contracted the virus after connecting infected people away from their workplaces, the syndicate added in the statement, noting that the number […]