Image - Gettyimages The city set up interim morgues. Hospitals used refrigerated tractor trailers to store multiple bodies, Crematoriums have been backed up and Funeral directors across the city have run out of space. Police were called to a Brooklyn neighborhood on Wednesday after a funeral home overpowered by the coronavirus death used rented trucks to store dozens of bodies on ice. A passerby complained about the smell, officials said. The Brooklyn borough president, Eric Adams, went to the scene on Wednesday evening. He told the Daily News, “While this situation is under investigation, we should not have what we have right now, with trucks lining the streets filled with bodies.” He said “it was people who walked by who saw some leakage and detected an odor coming from ...

                              President Muhammadu Buhari Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday extended the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and   The Federal Capital Territory ,  Abuja by a week to stop COVID -19 Community Spread. “The lockdown in the FCT, Lagos & Ogun States shall subsist remain in place until these new ones come into effect on Saturday, 2nd May 2020 at 9 am,” Buhari said in his nationwide broadcast. There will be a national curfew from 8 pm to 6 am.  In addition, he said that the situation in Kano State required total lockdown.

                                   Image Courtesy- Omni Matryx / Pixabay   Governors of the 36 States of the federation on Wednesday “unanimously” agreed to the implementation of an inter-State lockdown in the country over the next two weeks to damp the spread of  coronavirus from State to State.  The governors, operating under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), reached the agreement after receiving briefing from the Governors of Lagos, Bauchi, Oyo and Ogun States who shared their experiences and lessons from the fight against COVID-19.  A n official statement issued  by the NGF chairman and governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, at the end of the sixth COVID-19 teleconference meeting said only essential services would be permitted.  State governors called for the decentralization of the COVID-19 response as the best chance...

                    Gov. Kemp  The Georgia Department of Public Health now reports there are 20,166 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the state. 3,885 people remain hospitalized and the death toll in the state has risen to 818. The numbers were released Tuesday at 7 p.m. The most cases, with 2,206, are in Fulton County, followed by Dekalb County with 1,563 and Dougherty with 1,456. Meanwhile, Kemp joined his fellow Republican governors from South Carolina and Tennessee in announcing partial openings this week.  But many local leaders across the state said that they were  caught off guard  by Kemp's announcement, with some calling the decision "reckless" and "irresponsible" as they advised residents to continue sheltering in place.

US president says he will sign an order suspending immigration to protect jobs in the country as the coronavirus spreads. "In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!" Trump tweeted. The suspension of all immigration would serve as an extension on the travel restrictions the Trump administration has already declared on some countries in Europe, China, Canada, Mexico, Iran and Nigeria.

                                Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili Former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has said that Africa should be paid compensation from China, following China's failure to    contain the spread of the virus. She said the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the conditions of the Africans.  She added that the continent’s economic gains had been spoilt since the global crisis.  The former Vice President for the Africa Region at the World Bank noted that although there were calls for voluntary international aid to support the continent, “this is far from the best solution.” According to her, it is time to make offending rich countries pay the poor ones a global risk burden tax for delaying their rise out of poverty. She said, “Today, Africa is home to more than 70 per cent of the world’s poorest people, with more than 400 million living below the povert...

                                                      Image Courtesy- Pixabay Researchers admit a medical examiner in Thailand is the first person to die from the coronavirus after contracting it from a corpse according to  the  Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine study reported Sunday .  “This is the first report on COVID-19 infection and death among medical personnel in a Forensic Medicine unit,” “There is low chance of forensic medicine professionals coming into contact with infected patients. But they can have contact with biological samples and corpses.” “At present, there is no data on the exact number of COVID-19 contaminated corpses since it is not a routine practice to examine for COVID-19 in dead bodies in Thailand,” researchers wrote. Researchers said forensic and medical professionals should be ...