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A pleasant day to you and welcome to the compilation of the latest Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) news update on AllNews for today, Wednesday, October 7th, 2020.
Switzerland Liverpool winger, Xherdan Shaqiri, has tested positive for Covid-19, the country's football federation said on Tuesday, one day after the 28-year-old rejoined the national team for the first time in over a year.
AllNews understands that Shaqiri is the 3rd Liverpool player to test positive to COVID-19 in 2 weeks after Thiago Alcantara and Sadio Mane. Read more here.
In response to the need for a faster and cheaper COVID-19 testing, Nigerian scientists have developed COVID-19 kits that meet that need.
The Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Babatunde Salako, said that the kits would give results in less than 40 minutes. Read more here.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has revealed that the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases on the continent is 1.5 million.
This was disclosed in a statement that also revealed that the number of fatalities from the disease in Africa is 36,614 (Sunday figure). Read more here.
English Premier League clubs spent £1.2B on transfer after the EPL deadline day despite the financial crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The empty stands and uncertainty over future broadcast and commercial contracts have little effect as to altering the Premier League's arms race as clubs again splashed out more than £1 billion in the transfer window. Read more here.
Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, has announced plans to shut down nine neighbourhoods, as COVID-19 cases in the city see a spike.
Announcing the shutdown, de Blasio said that all nonessential businesses and schools will be shut in all nine neighbourhoods in Brooklyn and Queens. Read more here.
Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden on Monday castigated Donald Trump for saying Americans should not be afraid of Covid-19 or let it “dominate your life,” even after the president tested positive for coronavirus.
“I saw a tweet he did, they showed me, he said ‘don’t let COVID control your life,'” Biden told Florida news station Local 10 as he campaigned in the key battleground state. Read more here.
And that’s all on the latest Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) news update on AllNews for today. More COVID-19 and Nigerian news headlines are on this dependable website. Do enjoy the rest of your day.
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