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The individuals will now go into quarantine for a period of seven days as the English top flight looks to resume next month The Premier League has confirmed that there were six positive Covid-19 results returned from a total of ​748 tests administered to players and club staff on Sunday and Monday. The positive cases came from a total of ...

Burundi is about to lose its president of 15 years but gains a “supreme guide to patriotism”, according to the official title that will be given to Pierre Nkurunziza once he steps down after Wednesday’s election. He will also receive a $540,000 (£440,000) retirement pay-out and a luxury villa. But it is not clear if he is going to step ...

Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT worker in Louisville, Ky., was shot in her bed after midnight on March 13 by three police officers serving a “no-knock warrant,” becoming another statistic in the long list of African-Americans killed at the hands of police. What makes the case unusual is that Taylor was a woman. And, of course, she was asleep. The ...

A fire at a St Petersburg hospital has killed five coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit. The blaze was apparently started by a short-circuit in a ventilator, Russian news agencies reported. The fire has now been contained and 150 people have been evacuated from the hospital, the country’s emergency ministry said. It is not clear how many people have ...

The International Football Association Board (IFAB), which controls the laws of the game, say teams can make extra changes in order to protect players Teams will be allowed to make five substitutions during matches when football resumes after the coronavirus-enforced break, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) has confirmed. The temporary change in the rules has been brought in to ...

The classy midfielder ran rings around the Argentina national team and could have been greater than Diego and Messi… he just didn’t want to be With preparations for the 1974 World Cup in full flow, with their minds focused on the potential challenge ahead from the likes of Brazil, hosts West Germany and Italy, the Argentina national team had little ...

The Spurs forward will now be available to feature for the north London club, should the 2019-20 Premier League season be allowed to resume Tottenham star Son Heung-min has completed his mandatory three-week military service in South Korea, with the Spurs forward reportedly boasting the best performance of all the trainees who had been taking part. According to information published ...

The Scottish defender tangled with the Argentine legend during a Champions League tie at Anfield which delivered a remarkable fight-back from the Reds Andy Robertson has aired his regret at having ruffled the hair of Lionel Messi, “the best player that’s ever played this game”, during Liverpool’s famous Champions League fight-back against Barcelona. With emotions running high on a memorable ...

The new coronavirus can persist in men’s semen even after they have begun to recover, a finding that raises the possibility the virus could be sexually transmitted, Chinese researchers said Thursday. A team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital tested 38 male patients treated there at the height of the pandemic in China, in January and February. About 16% of them had ...

Coronavirus could kill up to 190,000 people in Africa in the first year if control measures fail to work, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The numbers would overwhelm the available medical capacity in much of of the continent, the organisation warns citing a new study. WHO Africa Director Regional Director Matshidiso Moeti said transmission of the virus in ...