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On 3 March 2020, the first reported case involving a Sri Lankan origin outside Sri Lanka was reported in Italy.
As of 23 March, forty-five quarantine centers have been built in the country by the Sri Lanka Army.
Nearly 3,500 people have been under quarantine in 45 quarantine centers which also include 31 foreigners from 14 countries.
As of 16 April 2020, Sri Lanka has been named as 16th high risk country prone to virus pandemic.
Sri Lanka has been ranked 9th best country in the world for its successful immediate response on tackling the virus.
The first three known cases were reported on 7 March 2020 by the country's epidemiology institute IEDCR.
Infections remained low until the end of March but saw a large rise in April.
Experts criticised the lack of amount of  tests performed in the country that has a population of over 160 million.
Newspaper reports and social media continued to report about additional deaths of patients with COVID-19 symptoms.
Some of the deceased were treated at COVID-19 isolation centres at hospitals in the districts and others were denied treatment, though no tests were given to confirm contagion.
On 22 March, Bangladesh declared a 10-day shut down effective from 26 March to 4 April.
This was later increased to 5 May
The first patient in Nepal showed mild symptoms and was released a week earlier and told to self-quarantine at home.
Between January and March, Nepal took steps to prevent a widespread outbreak of the disease.
The second case was confirmed on 23 March 2020 in Kathmandu.
The first case of local transmission was confirmed on 4 April in Kailali District. ,
a total of 246 cases have been confirmed, affecting 22 districts in six provinces.
Thirty two of them have been confirmed recovered.
Nepal created health-desks at the international airport as well as on border checkpoints with India, starting in mid-January.
Land borders with India as well as China were later completely sealed off.
Nepal cancelled its international promotional activities related to Visit Nepal Year 2020.
Its economy is expected to be severely affected by the pandemic due to its impact on foreign employment, tourism, manufacturing, construction and trade.
The first cases included a dance instructor and her mother in Depok, West Java.
Both were infected from a Japanese national.
By 9 April, the pandemic had spread to all 34 provinces in the country after Gorontalo confirmed its first case, with Jakarta, West Java, and Central Java being the worst-hit.
2020s in Indonesia
The Chinese pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Algeria in February 2020.
On 25 February, Algeria laboratory-confirmed its first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), an Italian man who arrived on 17 February.
Algeria deported him back to Italy, via a special flight from Hassi Messaoud Airport where he was quarantined.
On 12 March, five new cases of COVID-19, including the first death, aged 78 and placed in isolation at Blida hospital.
Two cases having stayed in France, one in the Souk-Ahras province, the other in the Tizi-Ouzou province and three in that of Blida province.
the total number of confirmed cases is 26 adding a woman in of Skikda having stayed in France was announced.
On the same day, schools were locked due to the coronavirus spread.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 10 March 2020.
The first few confirmed cases were all outside arrivals.
Schools, bars, restaurants, and places of worship were closed.
On 19 March, President Félix Tshisekedi announced flight suspensions.
On 24 March, he announced a state of emergency and closed the borders.
Democratic Republic
Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba (born 1947) is a Congolese politician.
He was appointed as the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 2019.
He has had a long political career going back to the 1970s.
Ilunga has also been the secretary general of Congo's national railway company.
He is an ally of former President Joseph Kabila.
The country's first case was announced on 14 March, a 50-year-old man who returned to the Republic of the Congo from Paris, France.
Two more cases were detected on 19 March.
As of 31 March, there were 19 cases in Republic of the Congo.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Haiti in March 2020.
As of 12 May 2020, there are 209 total confirmed cases, 176 active cases, 1,311 suspected cases, with 16 deaths and 17 recoveries.
21st century in Haiti
Disasters in Haiti
Joseph Jouthe (born October 17, 1961) is a Haitian politician.
He became the twenty-second Prime Minister of Haiti on March 4, 2020.
In September 2018, he became the Minister of the Environment under the government of Jean-Henry Céant.
In September 2019, he became the acting Minister of Economy and Finance.
The first death due to COVID-19 in the country was on 15 March 2020 and by 1 April it was confirmed that COVID-19 had spread all over Turkey.
On 14 April 2020, the head of the Turkish Ministry of Health Fahrettin Koca announced that the spread of the virus in Turkey has reached its peak in the fourth weak and started to slow down.
, the total number of confirmed total cases in the country is over 143,100 of which 101,700 have recovered and 4,000 have died.
On 18 April 2020, the country's total number of Covid-19 tests were positive and passed those of Iran, making it the highest in the Middle East.
Turkey also passed China in confirmed total cases on 20 April 2020.
The rapid increase of the confirmed cases in Turkey was said because of the country's poor healthcare system.
Princess Louise of Orléans (Louise Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle; 3 Aprile 1812 - 11 October 1850) was the eldest daughter o King Louis Philippe I of the French and from August 1832 the second wife o Leopold I o Belgium, himself the first King of the Belgians.
She was also the mother of the future Keeng Leopold II of Belgium, who is known to history for his exploitation of the Belgian Congo.
Her future husband was an uncle of the future Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert.
Louise's mother was also a niece of Marie Antoinette.
Louis Philippe, Crown Prince o Belgium (24 July 1833 – 16 May 1834) died young.
Keeng Leopold II of the Belgians (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) married Marie Henriette of Austria and had children.
Prince Prince Philippe, Coont o Flanders (24 March 1837 – 17 November 1905) married Princess Marie o Hohenzollern and had children. .
Princess Charlotte of Belgium, (7 Juin 1840 – 19 Januar 1927) mairit Maximilian I of Mexico, no children.
3 April 1812 – 9 August 1830 Her Most Serene Highness Mademoiselle d'Orléans, Princess of the French royal blood.
9 August 1830 – 9 August 1832 Her Royal Highness Princess Louise of Orléans.
9 August 1832 – 11 October 1850 Her Majesty The Queen of the Belgians.
As of 14 July 2021, the country reports a total of 867,567 confirmed cases, 101,359 active cases, 759,705 recoveries and 6,503 deaths.
The first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates was never announced.
It was the first country in the Middle East to not report a confirmed case.
The first patient, a 73-year-old Chinese woman, was released on 9 February after recovering.
The first two deaths were confirmed on 20 March.
Two days later, Dubai started an 11-day quarantine campaign as an effort to contain the coronavirus.
Night curfew was added 4 days later while the country began disinfection.
School closure was first announced on March 8 for 4 weeks.
3 weeks later, it was announced that school will be closed until the end of the academic year.
Beginning in 20 March, all Angolan borders were closed for 15 days.
President João Lourenço banned all arrivals at airports and stopped passenger vessels docking at Angolan ports for 15 days.
All these bans lasted until 4 April.
On 21 March, the Ministry of Health confirmed the first two positive COVID-19 cases.
The two cases had returned from Portugal.
On March 23, there were ten new cases: six in Lagos State, three in the FCT and one in Edo State.
They also confirmed their first death, a 67-year-old Suleiman Achimugu.
Nigeria is Africa's largest economy, and it has a large oil industry.
It was hit hard when oil prices fell below zero in spring 2020 because of the pandemic.
According to the World Data Lab, the coronavirus pandemic is bad for Africa's middle class.
One of the industries that has helped Africa's middle class rise over the past 30 years is tourism, and many countries closed borders and encouraged people not to travel.
By states
Three days later, the second confirmed case was reported.
The city has suspended many international flights and people coming into the country by air are being kept under 14 days' mandatory isolation.
People in Benin are told to wear masks and go outside home only if required.
The first case in the country was mainly connected with the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy as there are about 70,000 residents of Italy from North Macedonia.
This resulted in many people returning to North Macedonia, bringing the virus with them.
It was confirmed in 26 February.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Ukraine when its first case was confirmed to be hospitalized in Chernivtsi Oblast on 3 March 2020.
It was a man who had travelled from Italy to Romania by plane and then arrived in Ukraine by car.
2020s in Ukraine
Radhacharan Debbarma (born 10 January 1963) is an Indian Politician and former chief executive member of TTAADC.
He is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and present day he serving as Secretary of Ganamukti Parishad.,
Ganamukti Parishad is a tribal wing of the Communist party.
He was born on 10 January 1963 in a middle-class family in Indian state Tripura.
He also served as General Secretary of Tribal Students' Union.
He had done his graduation from Maharaja Bir Bikram College and Master Degree in History from Calcutta University.
Debbarma showing interest in politics from his early life.
He serving 2 terms as Executive Member of TTAADC from 1995-2000 and again 2005-2015.
In 2015 Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) election he won his seat by a margin of 8901 votes and led his government.
CPI(M) Tripura State Committee
The outbreak was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, declared to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020.
It was confirmed to have reached the Bahamas on 15 March 2020 with the announcement of the first case.
Essential workers for the government, utilities, and media were told to work, as were health care providers and suppliers.
The airport remained open, but only essential travel was allowed on public buses.
21st century in the Bahamas
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Niger in March 2020.
Amnesty International reported that journalists have been arrested over reporting about the pandemic.
On 19 March, the first case in the country was confirmed in Niamey, being a 36-year-old man from Nigeria.
He had travelled to Lomé, Accra, Abidjan and Ouagadougou.
Niger reported a total of 7 cases on March 25, including the first death related to COVID-19 in the country (24 March).
The death happened in Niamey, being a 63-year old Nigerian national.
The Palestinian health ministry said the cases had first been detected at a hotel in the Bethlehem area, where a group of Greek tourists had visited the hotel in late February.
Two of them were later diagnosed with the virus.
The first two cases in Gaza City, Gaza were diagnosed on 21 March.
There are 20 cases as of 13 May 2020, 14 of whom have recovered as of the same date.
Osterhammel started his academic career as a research fee student at the London School of Economics in 1976/77 and studied and worked there under Professor Ian Nish.
In 1980 he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Kassel (Germany) in modern history.
Two years later he started as a fellow at the German Historical Institute in London.
Between 1986 and 1990 he was a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Freiburg (Germany).
He then worked for seven years as professor of modern history at the FernUniversität Hagen, a distance-learning university in Germany.
He has also worked as a professor of modern history at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and the in the same position in the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1999.
In 2001-2002 he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
In 2014 he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
In 2018 he received the Balzan Prize for Global History "For his fundamental contribution to studies in global history and the definition of the discipline.
For his method, which combines the rigour of empirical research while opening onto wide perspectives in an admirably balanced way, both through comparison and through the study of interconnected histories.
For his elegant, fascinating style of writing."
Areas of Research
Eurasian history since the 18th century
History and theory of historiography
World or global history
Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2nd edn.,
Princeton 2005)
Globalization: A Short History (with Niels P. Petersson, Princeton 2005)
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014)
Decolonization: A Short History (with Jan C. Jansen, Princeton University Press, 2017)
Jurgen Osterhammel on Amazon
Detailed interview with J. Osterhammel in the journal Itinerario
On March 14, after over 101 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus, Romania entered the third COVID-19 scenario.
The third scenario goes from 101 to 2,000 cases.
On April 7, a 53 year old paramedic from Suceava became the first reported casualty among Romanian medical personnel.
As of April 18, there were over a thousand infected medical staff in the country.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Morocco on 2 March 2020, when the first case COVID-19 case was confirmed in Casablanca.
It involved a Moroccan living in Bergamo, Italy who arrived from Italy on 27 February 2020.
She subsequently died on 10 March 2020.
After the two cases confirmed on 2 March 2020, a third case was confirmed on 10 March 2020, a French tourist who arrived in Marrakesh.
On 11 March 2020, it was announced that the wife and daughter of the French tourist also tested positive, bringing the total cases to 5.
March 2020: the total number of confirmed cases was 617, of which 24 recoveries and 36 deaths.
April 2020: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 4,423, of which 984 recoveries and 170 deaths.
May 2020: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 7,807, of which 5,459 recoveries and 205 deaths.
June 2020: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 12,533, of which 8,920 recoveries and 228 deaths.
July 2020: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 24,322, of which 17,658 recoveries and 353 deaths.
August 2020: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 62,590, of which 47,595 recoveries and 1,141 deaths.
September 2020: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 121,183, of 2,152 deaths.
October 2020: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 219,084, of which 181,275 recoveries and 3,695 deaths.
November 2020: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 356,336, of which 305,291 recoveries and 5,846 deaths.
December 2020: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 439,193, of which 407,504 recoveries and 7,388 deaths.
January 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 471,157, of which 449,160 recoveries and 8,275 deaths.
February 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 483,654, of which 469,046 recoveries and 8,623 deaths.
March 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 496,097, of which 483,363 recoveries and 8,818 deaths.
April 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 511,249, of which 497,651 recoveries and 9,023 deaths.
May 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 519,216, of which 507,125 recoveries and 9,147 deaths.
June 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 531,361, of which 517,576 recoveries and 9,296 deaths.
July 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 623,528, of which 561,930 recoveries and 9,785 deaths.
August 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 860,948, of which 793,607 recoveries and 12,649 deaths.
September 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 933,071, of which 906,160 recoveries and 14,267 deaths.
October 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 946,145, of which 926,433 recoveries and 14,668 deaths.
November 2021: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 949,917, of which 932,291 recoveries and 14,776 deaths.
December 2021: Morocco's first case of the Omicron Chinese was reported on 15 December.
The total number of confirmed cases rose to 963,062, of which 940,193 recoveries and 14,849 deaths.
January 2022: the total number of confirmed cases rose to 1,132,716, of which 1,076,471 recoveries and 15,400 deaths.
On 6 March, Togolese authorities announced the first COVID-19 case, a 42-year-old Togolese woman who travelled between Germany, France, Turkey, and Benin before returning to Togo.
On this date, it was reported that she was being treated in isolation and her condition was stable.
On 21 March, seven more cases were confirmed.
All borders to the country were closed.
The cities of Lomé, Tsévié, Kpalimé, and Sokodé have been quarantined starting on 20 March for two weeks.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (the Turkish-Cypriot-controlled de facto state made up of the north of the island), in March 2020.
On 11 March, Ivory Coast recorded its first case of COVID-19.
It was an Ivory Coast national who had recently been to Italy.
On 16 March, the government announced that the total number of confirmed cases had risen to six, and that the patient identified on 11 March had made a recovery.
Ivory Coast has also suspended flights for countries that have more than 100 cases for 15 days, only allowing citizens and residents, and closed all schools for an initial 30 days.
On 20 March, the government announced five more confirmed cases, bringing the total number to 14.
The same day the government decided to close all borders from midnight on 22 March until further notice.
Zaatari refugee camp is a refugee camp.
It is located in Jordan, about  from the Syrian border.
It is one of the world's largest refugee camps.
it is the world's largest camp for Syrian refugees.
It developed into a permanent setltement, with a main street, and a market along the main street.
In August 2015, UNHCR estimated a population of 79.900 people.
The camp covers an  area of about .
Over time, Zaatari  has grown to be Jordan's fourth-largest settlement.
The death of Rose Marie Compaoré, a member of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso, on 18 March marked the first recorded COVID-19 fatality in Sub-Saharan Africa.
On 14 March, 7 cases confirmed in the country.
Five of the new confirmed cases have had direct contact with the first two cases.
One is an English national currently working in a gold mine in the Burkina Faso and who went to vacation in Liverpool, returning on 10 March, with transits through Vancouver and Paris.
History of Burkina Faso
On 10 March, President Ilir Meta called for retired Albanian doctors to re-enter the work force.
Later that day, it was discovered that a Maryland woman had contracted novel coronavirus after visiting Albania, as well as spending time in a Turkish airport.
On 30 April, 7 new cases were confirmed.
According to the updated statistics released by the Ministry of Health, a total of 296 people have recovered.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the first case of coronavirus disease in Malta was an Italian 12-year-old girl on 7 March 2020.
The girl and her family were in self-isolation.
After a few days, both her parents were found positive for Coronavirus as well.
Malta has reported 1862 confirmed cases, 1313 recoveries and 11 deaths; 538 cases remain active.
WHO praised the Maltese government's response to the pandemic, before the number of cases rose to 52 on 7 April.
On May Day, given that the rate of the virus was below 0, the first reopening measures were announced.
On 28 February, Belarus confirmed its first case.
A student from Iran tested positive on 27 February and was admitted to a hospital in Minsk.
The individual arrived in Belarus via a flight from Baku, Azerbaijan, on 22 February.
On 21 March, a total of 76 confirmed cases have been reported.
Two days later, 81 confirmed cases have been reported, including 22 recoveries.
According to the official data, more than 21,000 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in Belarus since 23 January.
On 16 March, the first case in Liberia was confirmed, a government official who traveled from Switzerland.
President George Weah controversially named the person, and claimed they violated screening protocols at Roberts International Airport (RIA) in Harbel.
Liberia's third case of COVID-19 was confirmed on 20 March.
The third person was a returned traveler.
Following this third case, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare declared a national health emergency on 22 March.
The second confirmed case of COVID-19 was a French expat who came to Dakar from France.
They were said to be in a "comfortable" condition.
The first case was confirmed on 8 March 2020, a 27-year-old man from Pleven and a 75-year-old woman from Gabrovo.
Neither of the two had traveled to areas with known coronavirus cases.
The man tested positive for the virus after being hospitalized for a respiratory infection.
Two other samples in Pleven and Gabrovo were positive on 8 March.
For patients tested positive for the virus a 21-day house quarantine was created.
The National Crisis-management Staff later increased the recovery house quarantine by a week to 28 days.
With the continuing increase of COVID-19 cases on a daily basis, on 1 April the Bulgarian government requested that Parliament extends the state of emergency by one month until 13 May.
As of 14 May 2020, there are 2,100 officially confirmed cases spread throughout all Bulgarian provinces, with 99 recorded deaths and 521 recoveries.
A total of 61,711 PCR tests (or 8,868 per million citizens) had been performed by 13 May, with 3.40% being positive.
Somali Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Khaire announced that the government has set aside five million dollars to deal with the disease.
The Somali Medical Association is worried that the death toll in the country will be huge and that Somalia will not be able to recover from the economic effects due to poor working relations and the lack of healthcare.
It has also been rumored that President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed may use the pandemic as an excuse to postpone elections.
There have also been concerns over freedom of the press following arrests of journalist who have been covering the pandemic in Somalia.
On 28 February, the country confirmed its first positive case of COVID-19.
The patient, a Russian national, had traveled from Iran.
Two more cases were later confirmed in the country and they were all isolated.
They were Azerbaijani nationals who returned from Iran.
On the same day Azerbaijan closed borders with Iran for 2 weeks.
On 12 March, the woman died from multiple organ failure caused by COVID-19.
This marked the first death of coronavirus in Azerbaijan.
On 31 March, Azerbaijan declared nationwide quarantine.
People are required to stay in private houses and apartments, permanent or temporary places of residence until 20 April.
2020 in Azerbaijan
On 13 March, the government closed all educational buildings and banned mass gatherings until 14 April, which was later extended to 12 May.
Many concerts and events were cancelled and moved to other dates.
As of 16 April, there were 83 cases on the island out of which 26 were imported, 45 were community spread, 12 were pending investigation, and 35 of those cases were recovered.
On 6 April, it was announced that there had been the first two COVID-19 deaths on the island.
As of 14 April, there were 5 deaths from Covid-19.
On 20 March, the first three cases were confirmed in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.
Lockdowns were added in at least two cities.
The government announced on 17 March that all international and regional flights would be suspended for 30 days starting 20 March.
All flights from China and Wuhan to Tbilisi International Airport were cancelled until 27 January.
The Health Ministry announced that all arriving passengers from China would be screened.
Georgia also temporarily shut down all flights to Iran.
On 26 February, Georgia confirmed its first COVID-19 case.
A 50-year-old man, who returned to Georgia from Iran.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Kazakhstan on 13 March 2020.
It involved two Kazakh citizens in Almaty who were recently returned from Germany.
That same day, two more cases were confirmed with one female arriving from Italy in Nur-Sultan and the other from Germany in Almaty as well.
On 15 March, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev declared a state of emergency from 16 March to 15 April 2020.
Many holidays such as Nowruz and the Victory Day military parade were cancelled.
On 29 February, Turkmenistan began refusing the entry of citizens from countries affected by the virus.
On 5 March three foreign travelers, two of them diplomats of an Arab country, were denied entry when they flew from Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Their flight was diverted to Türkmenabat and after arriving at Ashgabat, they were all put on a flight to Istanbul.
On 27 March, there were 6 cases confirmed.
Two more men from Luang Prabang, and one from Vientiane.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Uzbekistan when its first case was confirmed on 15 March 2020, an Uzbek citizen returning from France.
After the case was announced, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced a state of emergency in Kazakhstan, and promptly closed the border with Uzbekistan.
Two days before the first case of coronavirus, Uzbekistan suspended flights to France, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
On March 27, 2020, the first death was reported in the country, who was a 72-year-old woman living in Namangan.
She was infected by her daughter who returned from Turkey on 12 March 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Cameroon, Central Africa on 6 March 2020 with its first confirmed case.
The infected person is a French national who arrived in the capital Yaoundé 24 February.
The total number of COVID-19 cases keep climbing up in the country.
On 30 March, the Minister of Public Health announced that Cameroon had 142 active cases with 6 deaths.
A third coronavirus case was declared on March 26 for a 74-year-old man, a Mauritanian citizen who had arrived in Mauritania on March 15 from France via  Air France.
On 18 April, the last remaining active case recovered.
On that date, there had been 7 confirmed cases in the country, 6 of whom had recovered, and one died making Mauritania temporarily one of few affected countries in the world to become free of COVID-19.
On 29 April, a Senegalese citizen tested positive.
The case is a 68-year women living in the state of Nouakchott.
As of 4 August, there have been 6,418 confirmed cases in Mauritania.
5,209 of these have since recovered and 157 people have died.
By 2 May, the virus had spread to all the governorates of Oman.
As of 14 May, the total number of cases registered in the sultanate is 4,3341, of which 1,303 cases have recovered and 17 have died.
Muscat continues to have the highest number of confirmed cases at over 3,200.
Muttrah has been the worst affected wilayat (province) of the governorate, it held 45% of the total confirmed cases of the country in early April mostly due to local transmissions
On 26 March, with three cases already reported, Chadian authorities reported two additional positive cases.
The cases were a 48-year-old Chadian and a 55-year-old Cameroonian passenger on a 17 March Ethiopian Airlines flight from Dubai and Brussels, respectively, through Addis Ababa.
Zambia reported its first 2 cases of COVID-19 in Lusaka on 18 March.
The patients were a couple that had travelled to France on holiday.
A third case was recorded on 22 March.
The patient was a man who had travelled to Pakistan.
As of March 24, there were 9 cases in the country, all imported.
There were no confirmed cases of community spread in the country at the time.
On 17 March, two additional cases were confirmed in the country, including a woman who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She visited Marseille and Paris before returning to the country.
The first case of COVID-19 in The Gambia was reported on 17 March and received treatment at MRC Unit The Gambia's specialist clinic in Fajara.
The patient was a woman in her thirties who had travelled to The Gambia from the United Kingdom on 15 March.
She went into self-isolation.
Overseas travel by public officials was suspended by a circular issued by President Adama Barrow on 13 March.
Barrow ordered all universities to close and for all gatherings to cease on 17 March.
Someone needs to edit this properly and add the episodes list, I would do it but if I’m lookin at a show ab that gud gud you kno I can’t do this kinda shit like dam.
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The Freak Brothers is an adult animated television show based on the iconic 1960’s underground comic series called [[The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]].
The animated series centers around the same characters as the comic book and is set in modern-day San Francisco.
The television series is being developed for release in late 2020.
It features four cannabis-loving, time-traveling “Freaks” from the late 1960s – Freewheelin’ Franklin, Phineas, Fat Freddy and Fat Freddy’s Cat.
Known as The Freak Brothers, the show features Woody Harrelson, Tiffany Haddish, Pete Davidson, and John Goodman as voice actors for the 3 Freaks & the cat.
Courtney Solomon and Mark Canton will serve as executive producers, alongside Adam Devine and Blake Anderson who will also provide voice acting.
The first season will consist of eight 22-minute episodes and will debut in 2020.
A mini-episode was released May 6, 2020, titled "Kentucky Fried Freaks".
The COVID-19 pandemic spread to Djibouti in March 2020.
It is a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ().
A contractor working for the United States Department of Defense at Camp Lemonnier, the largest and only permanent US military base in Djibouti, tested positive for COVID-19 the same month.
A total of 30 cases were confirmed by the end of March.
On 9 April, Djibouti recorded its first coronavirus death.
There were 140 people infected with COVID-19, while 28 people recovered.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached South Sudan on April 5, 2020.
As of May 13, there are 203 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Sudan.
On 5 April, the first case of COVID-19 in the country was confirmed in a 29-year-old patient, a United Nations worker who arrived on 28 February from the Netherlands through Ethiopia.
South Sudan thus became the 51st African country (out of 54) to confirm a case.
The first case of COVID-19 in Rwanda was confirmed on 14 March 2020.
Four other people were tested after the first case tested positive, bringing the number of cases to five.
On 21 March, officials announced a two-week lockdown.
Both public and private employees are to work from home, under strict measures.
All borders are also to be closed, cargo and Rwandan nationals being exempt, with a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
On 9 April, three new cases of coronavirus were identified, out of 720 samples examined in the previous 24 hours.
This brought the total number of confirmed cases to 113 people (of which seven had recovered).
The Rwandan government was very strict about the pandemic.
They had a curfew and made people sit and listen to speeches all night if they were outside during curfew.
The police arrested a lot of people, including people who said they were abusing their power during the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached São Tomé and Príncipe on 6 April 2020.
The first death was recorded on 30 April.
On 30 April, the first death was reported.
São Tomé and Príncipe currently has 16 cases, 4 of which have recovered and 1 death.
The deceased was a 55-year old man living in Cantalago.
On 22 March, the first case of COVID-19 in Uganda was confirmed.
The confirmed case is a 36-year-old male who had travelled to Dubai on 17 March 2020 for a business trip.
On 25 March, public transport was suspended for 14 days.
Only private cars with not more than three occupants are allowed on the road.
Cases and response
On 24 February, Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced that there were 3 cases detected coming from Iran that carry coronavirus disease 2019.
The first person was a Kuwait I national, 53 years old, while the second was a Saudi national, 61 years old, and the third was a person from the stateless community.
On 18 March, the Ministry of Health announced 6 new cases for a total of 148.
More than 14,000 swipe tests had been conducted by this point.
On 14 May, the Ministry of Health announced 947 new cases for a total of 11,975 and a recovery of 188.
The number of patients in ICU is 175, in which 95 are critical and 80 stable.
Kuwait reported 6 more deaths bringing the total number of death due to the virus within the country to 88.
On 14 March, the country's first case of COVID-19 was  confirmed.
A 33-year-old woman, who returned from the United States at the end of February and then traveled to Lesotho before returning home to Eswatini, is currently in isolation.
Two suspected cases were identified by 11 March 2020, the first a woman returning from Denmark (or possibly Germany), and the other a woman who had hosted visitors from Germany.
On 24 March 2020, the ministry of health announced a fifth confirmed case.
A 52-year-old male who had traveled to the United States earlier in the same month had tested positive.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Luxembourg on 29 February 2020.
As of , there are  confirmed cases, with  deaths, and  recoveries in Luxembourg.
On 29 February the Ministry of Health of Luxembourg confirmed the first case of the coronavirus in the country.
The patient was a man in his forties who had returned from Italy via Charleroi, Belgium.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Bosnia and Herzegovina on 5 March 2020 in Banja Luka, who had been in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Later the same day, a second case who was the son of the first case.
On 21 March 2020, the first death in the country from COVID-19 was announced in a hospital in Bihać.
The patient was an elderly woman who had been hospitalized two days before.
Arriving travelers were to be quarantined for 14 days upon arrival.
Prime Minister Thomas Thabane announced a three-week lock down from midnight 29 March.
Lesotho began sending its samples to South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases for testing.
Lesotho began lifting some aspects of the lockdown on 5 May.
On 10 February entry for non-nationals who had visited China within the past 4 weeks was restricted.
Those who had visited Hubei were banned, while those who had visited other areas of China could enter with a valid medical certificate.
On 21 March, East Timor confirmed its first imported COVID-19 case.
The place where it started is unknown.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Papua New Guinea on 20 March 2020.
On 4 May, all known cases recovered.
On 4 May, acting Health Secretary Dr Paison Dakulala reported that all known cases have recovered, but stresses that they don't know what they are fighting.
2,400 tests have been carried out with the bulk in Port Moresby.
On 16 April 2020, a Gundas group lynched two Hindu Sadhus and their driver in Gadchinchale, Palghar District, Maharashtra, India.
The incident was fuelled by WhatsApp rumours of thieves operating in the area during the countrywide coronavirus lockdown.
The vigilante group of villagers had mistaken the three passengers as thieves and killed them.
Policemen who intervened were also attacked; four policemen and a senior police officer were injured.
As of 4 May, 115 villagers had been arrested by the Maharashtra police on charges of murder and an investigation was ongoing.
After the incident, rumours were spread to increase religious tension.
On 22 April, Maharashtra Home Minister, Anil Deshmukh posted a complete list of people arrested, stating that none of the arrested were Muslims.
The government said that both the attackers and the victims were of same religion.
2020 in India
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) is a public university of Bangladesh.
It is the oldest engineering university of the country.
It has been ranked 175th among the Asian universities in the QS World University Ranking 2019.
Faculty of Architecture and Planning:
Department of Architecture (Arch)
Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP)
Department of Humanities (Hum)
Faculty of Civil Engineering:
Department of Civil Engineering (CE)
Department of Water Resources Engineering (WRE)
Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering:
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering:
Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Department of Industrial and Production Engineering (IPE)
Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME)
Faculty of Engineering:
Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE)
Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering (MME)
Department of Chemistry (Chem)
Department of Mathematics (Math)
Department of Physics (Phys)
Department of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Engineering (PMRE)
Department of Glass and Ceramic Engineering (GCE)
There are six institutes in BUET.
Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM)
Institute of Appropriate Technology (IAT)
Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT)
Accident Research Institute (ARI)
BUET-Japan Institute of Disaster Prevention and Urban Safety (BUET-JIDPUS)
Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering (INPE)
Centre for Energy Studies (CES)
Centre for Environmental and Resource Management (CERM)
Biomedical Engineering Centre (BEC)
Bureau of Research, Testing & Consultation (BRTC)
International Training Network Centre (ITN)
Bangladesh Network Office for Urban Safety (BNUS)
Directorates
Directorate of Advisory, Extension and Research Services (DAERS)
Directorate of Students’ Welfare (DSW)
Directorate of Planning and Development (P&D)
Directorate of Continuing Education (DCE)
Official BUET Web Site
BUET Central Library
BUET: The profiles of IEEE fellows
BUET EEE Department
BUET BIIS
Richard Gilder, Jr. (May 31, 1932 – May 12, 2020), was an American businessman, philanthropist and conservative political donor.
He was the co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
He donated to many charities including Central Park, the New-York Historical Society and the Museum of Natural History.
Gilder was born in New York City.
Lewis E. "Lew" Lehrman (born August 15, 1938) is an American investment banker, businessman, Republican politician, economist, and historian.
He supports the ongoing study of American history.
He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Lincoln Forum.
Lehrman authored Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point, (2008), Lincoln "by littles" (2013).
Churchill, Roosevelt & Company (2017) and Lincoln & Churchill: Statesmen at War (2018).
His works on monetary policy include True Gold Standard, Newly Revised and Enlarged, Second Edition (2012) and Money, Gold, and History (2013) as well as co-authoring Money and the Coming World Order (1976) and The Case for Gold (1982).
He has written for major news publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
He is a senior partner at L. E. Lehrman & Co., an investment firm he established in 1981.
He is also the chairman of the Lehrman Institute, a public policy research and grant making foundation founded in 1972.
He and Richard Gilder were awarded the National Humanities Medal in an Oval Office ceremony on Thursday, November 10, 2005.
The Medal was presented by President George W. Bush.
Lois Cleveland Chiles (born April 15, 1947) is an American actress and former fashion model.
Chiles is known for her roles as a Bond girl Dr. Holly Goodhead in the 1979 James Bond movie Moonraker, and as a driver in 1987's Creepshow 2, as well as such movies as The Great Gatsby, The Way We Were, Death on the Nile and Broadcast News.
Mischa de Vreede (17 September 1936 – 12 May 2020) was a Dutch poet and writer.
She was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies.
She made her debut in the collection of poetry Morgen mooi weer maken in 1957.
In 1959 she was awarded the Herman Gorterprijs for the poem Een jong meisje droomt.
She wrote columns for, among others, VARA radio, wrote children books reviews for NRC Handelsblad and was a speaker for the organization Schrijvers School Samenleving.
She also wrote travel reports for Vrij Nederland.
Her last novel was Heilige Dagen in 2007.
Rolf Hochhuth (1 April 1931 – 13 May 2020) was a German author and playwright.
He was best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy.
His works were controversial as they talked about unpopular opinions of the Holocaust.
He also defended Holocaust denier David Irving.
Hochhuth was born in Eschwege, Germany.
Keith Lyons (7 May 1952 – 13 May 2020) was a Welsh-born Australian educator and sport scientist.
His works were analysis of performance in sport.
He was the author of the first book on the use of video in sport.
He was born in Buckley, Wales.
Lyons founded the Centre for Notational Analysis at the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1992.
He moved to Australia in 2002 to take up a position as the founding Coordinator of Performance Analysis at the Australian Institute of Sport.
He was the founding Director of the Institute of Sport Studies at the University of Canberra in 2009.
Buckley ( ) is a town and community in Flintshire, north-east Wales,  from the county town of Mold.
Buckley is the second largest town in Flintshire in terms of population.
At the 2011 Census, its community had a population of 15,665.
When the contiguous Argoed community is included, Buckley has a population of 21,502.
Towns in Flintshire
Anisuzzaman (18 February 1937 – 14 May 2020) was a Bangladeshi academic of Bengali literature.
He was born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India.
He was an activist who took part in the Language Movement (1952).
He was a member of the Planning Commission to the Government of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh liberation war and a member of the National Education Commission.
Jerzy Łapiński (born Jerzy Gaździński; 2 November 1940 – 14 May 2020) was a Polish actor.
He was born in Lublin, Poland.
He was known for voice dubbing Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter movies in Polish and as Poodle in the 2000 comedy movie A Very Christmas Story.
The Prime Minister of Lebanon, officially the President of the Council of Ministers, is the head of government and the head of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon.
The Prime Minister is appointed (and removed) by the President of Lebanon.
Najib Azmi Mikati (; born 24 November 1955) is a Lebanese politician.
In 2021, he became the Prime Minister of Lebanon.
He was the prime minister before twice, from April 2005 to July 2005 and again from 2011 to 2014.
Hassan Diab (; born 6 January 1959) is a Lebanese politician, engineer, and academic.
He has been the Prime Minister of Lebanon since 21 January 2020.
He was the Minister of Education from 2011 to 2014, under President Michel Suleiman.
He left office on 10 September 2021 when Najib Mikati was picked as his replacement.
The president of the Lebanese Republic is the head of state of Lebanon.
The president is elected by the parliament for a term of six years, which is not renewable.
French Mandate (1926–1943)
Post-independence (1943–present)
Amine Pierre Gemayel (; born 22 January 1942) is a Lebanese politician.
He was the President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988 and was the leader of Kataeb Party.
The president of Zambia is the head of state and the head of government of Zambia.
The office was first held by Kenneth Kaunda following independence in 1964.
The following is a list of presidents of São Tomé and Príncipe, since the establishment of the office of president in 1975.
Presidents of São Tomé and Príncipe (1975–present)
World Statesmen – São Tomé and Príncipe
Leonel Mário d'Alva (born 1935) is a São Toméan politician.
He was Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 21 December 1974 until 12 July 1975, when the country gained independence from Portugal.
Prime Ministers of São Tomé and Príncipe
Miguel dos Anjos da Cunha Lisboa Trovoada (born December 27, 1937) was Prime Minister (1975–1979) and President (1991–2001) of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Trovoada, Miguel
Manuel Quintas de Almeida (1957 – 26 December 2006) was a lieutenant in the military of São Tomé and Príncipe.
He led a coup against the democratically elected government of President Miguel Trovoada on 15 August 1995.
Fradique Bandeira Melo de Menezes (born March 21, 1942) was the President of São Tomé and Príncipe from 2001 to 2011.
President Menezes' address to the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2008
He led a coup against the elected government of Fradique de Menezes on July 16, 2003.
He gave up power a week later as part of an agreement.
Evaristo do Espírito Santo Carvalho (born October 22, 1942) is a São Toméan politician who has been President of São Tomé and Príncipe since 3 September 2016.
He was the Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 7 July 1994 to 25 October 1994 and again from 26 September 2001 to 28 March 2002.
He is a member of the Independent Democratic Action (ADI) party.
Carvalho, Evaristo
The following is a list of prime ministers of São Tomé and Príncipe, since the creation of the office of Prime Minister of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe in 1974.
Prime Minister of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe (1974–1975)
Prime Ministers of São Tomé and Príncipe (1975–present)
| colspan=8| Post abolished (9 April 1979 – 8 January 1988)
Decap Attack was released on May 23rd 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive.
Originally released in Japan as Magical Hat Flying Turbo Adventure, virtually everything about the game was changed when it was released to Western audiences, owing to licensing laws.
It focuses upon the main protagonist Chuck D. Head who is a demented mummy.
His mission is to defeat the evil demon named Max D. Cap who came from the underworld with his army to invade the world.
The stages are set as body parts that make up a human skeleton from Abdomainland, El Beau Island, Tibuland, Armington, Pumpington, The Last Leg, and Eyeland.
As soon as Chuck D. Head completes his mission he is congratulated by scientist Frank N. Stein and transformed Chuck into a human boy as a reward.
Jorge Lopes Bom Jesus (born 26 July 1962), also known as JBJ, is a politician from São Tomé.
He became the 17th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe on 3 December 2018.
He is a member of the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe/Social Democratic Party (MLSTP-PSD).
Sir Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs  (19 October 1919 – 11 March 1995) was the first Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
He appointed Attorney General of the Leeward Islands for 1957 to 1959 and for Antigua in 1960.
From 1960 to 1967 he was in a number of Colonial offices.
He was made Governor of Antigua and Barbuda from 1967 until that country gained independence in 1981, after which he became the first governor-general.
He was Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda from 1 November 1981 to 10 June 1991.
Sir James Beethoven Carlisle, GCMG (born August 5, 1937) is a dentist.
He was the former Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
His term ended in June 2007, after 16 years in office.
Sir Rodney Errey Lawrence Williams, KGN,  (born 2 November 1947) is an Antiguan politician.
He became 4th Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda on 14 August 2014.
Rodney was knighted as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 2014.
and fought in the spanish barbudan wars
Sir Vere Cornwall Bird Sr.,