We’ve been fact-checking the most widely shared dubious coronavirus claims this week.
There’s no mandatory vaccine law in UK
First, we’ve looked at a widely shared...
Viral Ghanaian dancing pallbearers, amid the soaring global coronavirus cases, have urged citizens to comply with the stay at home directive.
Taking to Twitter to...
A five-year-old boy shocked a Utah state trooper when he was pulled over for stealing his parents' car.
Taking to Twitter on Monday, the Utah Highway Patrol...
A woman has given birth onboard a flight repatriating Nigerians from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s second divorce has been granted, leaving him free to plan his third wedding when the lockdown restrictions are relaxed.
Marina Wheeler...
The Democratic Republic of Congo's Health Ministry says that 101 inmates have tested positive for coronavirus in the N'dolo military prison.
Only three infected inmates...
A vice-president at Amazon has quit “in dismay” at the internet giant’s crackdown on workers who criticised it over coronavirus safety measures.
Tim Bray described...
British journalist, Piers Morgan has announced that he will temporarily step back from presenting ITV’s flagship morning show, Good Morning Britain after developing a...
Pope Francis on Sunday called for international scientific cooperation to discover a vaccine for the coronavirus and said any successful vaccine should be made...
A mother-of-three nurse has died of coronavirus just two years before retirement after spending nearly 40 years on the job.
Indian-born Philomina Cherian, 63, died...
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control is looking to test two million Nigerians over the space of three months.
This was revealed by the Director-General of...
An Imam (Muslim CLeric) in Bauchi state has been publicly flogged for defying social distancing order to hold prayers with over 10 people.The President,...
Harrowing footage from a Brazilian city hit by the Coronavirus pandemic shows mass graves being dug as authorities struggle with the pandemic.
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Sudan has criminalised carrying out Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), making it punishable by three years in jail.
Some 87% of Sudanese women aged between 14...
Gospel musician, Nathaniel Bassey, has advised people to seek God for help in this coronavirus pandemic and not the government.
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Covid-19: Akufo-Addo speaks on...
Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin, has gone to hospital after he was diagnosed with coronavirus.
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Coronavirus kills child at Korle-BuNumber of Ghanaians tested for...
The boss of Reckitt Benckiser, which owns Durex condoms, has said people are having less sex because of the coronavirus crisis.
Laxman Narasimhan said condom...
Dozens of bodies have been found stored in moving lorries in New York, authorities say, after passersby complained of the smell.
The Andrew T Cleckley...
There is “clear-cut” evidence that a drug can help people recover from the coronavirus, say US officials.
Remdesivir cut the duration of symptoms from 15...
The head of the emergency department at a Manhattan hospital committed suicide after spending days on the front lines of the coronavirus battle, her family said...
Residents in Wuhan, the city in Central China where the novel coronavirus began are struggling to adjust to their new kind of living.
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The false belief that toxic methanol cures Coronavirus has killed over 700 people in Iran.
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More 'petrified' parents have come forward after their children were struck down with tell-tale signs of a mysterious coronavirus-linked inflammatory syndrome that has hospitalised...