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Alfredo Lim, 1929-2020 At the age 90, Filipino politician and retired police officer Alfredo Siojo Lim passed away, his daughter Cynthia Lim , as well as his chief of staff confirmed. On Aug. 7, Mayor Isko Moreno confirmed that Lim had been infected with COVID-19. From the Manila slums, this orphan...

A city in northern China has put control measures in place after one confirmed case of the disease, which caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages.  A herdsman from a city in Inner Mongolia was confirmed to be infected with bubonic plague, health officials said, a reminder how even...