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16 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
A Colombian team is set to test a ventilator powered by a low-cost Raspberry Pi computer board designed and coded in March by a man in California, the United States of America. The creator, Marco Mascorro, is a robotics engineer with no prior experie...
15 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Moussa Faki, the chairperson of the African Union commission, has condemned United States President Donald J. Trump over the United States' decision to halt its funding of the World Health Organization. Mr. Faki called the act "deeply regrettable" an...
15 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
In an international sting operation carried out by Interpol, American drug officials, and Brazilian and Mozambique police, 49 year-old Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos, one of Brazil's most-wanted criminals who also goes by the name Fuminho, was arreste...
14 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
In a televised address, Guinea President Alpha Conde stated that in an effort to reduce the transmission of the Covid-19 Coronavirus, the wearing of face masks will be temporarily made compulsory. The new order will come into effect on Saturday, Apri...
12 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Just 2 days before the Ebola virus outbreak was to be declared over in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a new case and death by the infection was confirmed by local health officials in the city of Beni. This is the first person to contract Ebola in...
10 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
South Korean officials reported on Friday, April 10th, 2020, that 91 patients thought to have been cleared of the Covid-19 coronavirus had tested positive again. However, Jeong Eun-kyeong, the director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Pre...
10 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
A few days ago, the staff team of the World International News Group posted a list of museums around the world offering virtual tours. To help continue passing time and partake in social distancing amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, our staff te...
10 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent decline in oil demand, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies (OPEC+) have held video conferences and agreed to cut oil output by over a fifth to help bolster p...
9 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
According to Statistics Canada, amid lockdowns to combat the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, about 1,011,000 jobs were lost across the country in March, driving the unemployment rate of 5.6% in February to 7.8%. Federal reports indicate that between M...
8 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Effective Tuesday April 7th, 2020, local time, Moroccans who leave home without face masks risk prison sentences of up to 3 months along with fines of up to the equivalent of 126 United States dollars. The decision was announced after a government me...
