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Both China and South Korea report new spikes in coronavirus cases, with Seoul recording 34 new cases - its biggest single-day jump in about a month. Barack Obama launches a scathing attack on US Barack Obama rubbishes President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, calling it an "absolute chaotic disaster". Spain registers its lowest coronavirus death toll since mid-March, 143. Globally, more than 279,000 have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, while the number of confirmed infections has surpassed four million. More than 1.3 million people have recovered. News updates. New York to test nursing staff twice a week; All nursing homes in New York state will be required to test their staff twice a week for the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, in an attempt to curb and tame the spread of the virus in its most fertile breeding ground. At his daily briefing, Cuomo announced new rules to protect nursing home patients, in...

The World Health Organization has dismissed the Madagascar president's claims that a herbal tonic produced within the country can cure patients of COVID-19.  Other African countries such as Tanzania and Guinea-Bissau have made plans to import the tonic, which contains the artemisia plant, which is normally used to treat malaria.

Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rashid Aman announced on Thursday that the total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Kenya had risen to 396. Giving the ministry's daily update on new infections following the testing of 777 new samples, Dr Aman said 12 more people had tested positive for the coronavirus. He said seven were in Mombasa, three in Nairobi, one in Kitui and one in Wajir. The case in Wajir was its first since Kenya confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on March 13. The ministry further announced that two more patients had died, raising Kenya's death toll to 17. Since the first case was reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, at least 3,234,915 people worldwide had been infected by April 30. The total number of deaths worldwide was 228,598 and that of recoveries at 1,009,290. The number of active cases stood at 1,997,027, with three per cent or 59,776 of them being critical and the rest mild. Worldometer's count showed that the n...