Women sell face masks and gloves at a public minibus station in Lagos, Nigeria Friday, March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) Thu 14 May 2020: Coronavirus cases in Africa rose to 72,336 as the tiny enclave state of Lesotho in Southern Africa reported its first infection on Thursday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: Turkey’s prestigious Istanbul Film Festival will begin online from Friday, with 15 selected films set to entertain the public from May 15-29. The 39th Istanbul Film Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), originally scheduled from April 10-21, was postponed earlier amid fears of coronavirus or COVID-19 […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: China stocked medical supplies from other countries in January, while WHO kept silent, intelligence officials told Newsweek The CIA said China blocked the World Health Organization (WHO) from issuing a global warning about the coronavirus in January, according to US news magazine, Newsweek. The magazine cited two anonymous intelligence officials who […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: Muslim communities in Italy have been praised for their generosity during the coronavirus crisis after donating more than €500,000 in cash and food aid since the outbreak began more than two months ago. Italy’s death toll so far is approaching 31,000, with almost half the fatalities occurring in Lombardy, the northern […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: The research by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London looked at data to make short-term forecasts for countries – especially developing ones – in two-week trajectories based on reported deaths as an indicator of disease spread. India are expected to jump from 30,806 to 643,649 […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: Yemen in trouble with epidemics, including pneumonic plague, chikungunya virus, along with COVID-19 pandemic Over 600 people, including six government officials, have died in Yemen’s temporary capital, Aden, due to epidemics, according to a government official. On May 1-13, due to epidemics, including pneumonic plague and chikungunya virus, a total of […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: The coronavirus may never go away and populations will have to learn to live with it just as they have HIV, the World Health Organization has warned, as the global death toll from the disease nears 300,000. A vaccine could allow countries and economies to fully re-open from lockdowns and potentially […]
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A boy wears a protective mask as he looks through a window in Sidon, Lebanon. Photo: Reuters Thu 14 May 2020: A mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation, poverty and anxiety by the pandemic of COVID-19, United Nations health experts said […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: Sensors in face mask would light up to signal the presence of the new coronavirus when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes Researchers with Harvard and MIT are developing a face mask that can detect if the wearer is infected with coronavirus, media outlets report. When saliva comes into contact […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: Microdroplets generated by speech can remain suspended in the air in an enclosed space for more than ten minutes, a study published Wednesday showed, underscoring their likely role in spreading COVID-19. Researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) had a person loudly repeat the phrase […]
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