Walmart gives $180 million in bonuses to employees who have worked daily throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

American retail company, Walmart paid $180 million in cash bonuses to its employees who have worked daily throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to provide customers with food, medicine and other essential items.

Senegal develops one of the world's most affordable Coronavirus testing kits which costs $1 each and $60 3D printed ventilators

Senegal has reportedly developed one of the world's most affordable Coronavirus testing kits, which costs $1 each and $60 3D printed ventilators. A laboratory in Senegal used its AIDS and Ebola experience to develop a $1 COVID-19 testing kit and ventilators that cost just $60.

NHS issues urgent alert as children are being admitted to intensive care with a new Coronavirus-related 'inflammatory syndrome' (photo)

The National Health Service (NHS) has been issued an urgent alert about a spike in the number of children being admitted to intensive care with a Coronavirus-related condition. In an alert sent to GPs, health chiefs said: 'There is growing concern that a [COVID-19] related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK. 

Students wear social distancing headgears to class as schools resume in China (photos)

Life in China is now returning to normalcy since the outbreak of Coronavirus. With some schools slowly reopening after the long hiatus, one school in the city of Hangzhou have enforced social distancing by letting students wear DIY hats with 3-foot-long horizontal plumes.

Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for crimes committed by minors after 'effectively' abolishing flogging

Saudi Arabia is ending the death penalty for crimes committed by minors, the kingdom’s Human Rights Commission has announced. In a statement published on Sunday, president of the state-backed commission Awwad Alawwad said: “The decree helps us in establishing a more modern penal code.”

UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson returns to work after recovering from Coronavirus

UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson returned to work on Monday morning, after making full recovery from Coronavirus. In his first public statement since he was admitted to St Thomas’s Hospital in London on April 5, Boris said the U.K. was beginning to "turn the tide" on the virus. 

UK Govt to give £60k life assurance payout to families of medics and care workers killed in Coronavirus line of duty

The UK government has announced that families of medics who tragically lost their own lives to Coronavirus while trying to save others will receive a £60,000 life assurance payout. 

Coronavirus: 8000 Borussia fans pay for cardboard cutouts of themselves to fill stadium if league returns behind closed doors (photos)

Fans of the German club, Borussia Monchengladbach, ave paid for more than 8,000 cardboard cutouts of themselves to fill their stadium if the Bundesliga returns behind closed doors due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

First patients injected as UK begins Coronavirus vaccine trial

The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected out of more than 800 people recruited for the study. Elisa Granato (pictured above), a scientist, was the first volunteer to be injected and she said she volunteered because she wanted to try to support the scientific process.

Director Of Popular Cartoon “Tom And Jerry” Gene Deitch Dies At 95

Gene Deitch, popular cartoonist and director of Tom and Jerry has passed away at the age of 95. According to Metro UK, the Oscar-winning illustrator died on Thursday night at his apartment in Prague.