Fri 24 April 2020: Ibn al Jazzar, a 10th-century Muslim polymath, was the first to diagnose leprosy, explaining the disease in scientific terms and measures to contain it. Common knowledge says that Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen was the first to identify leprosy’s main cause in 1973, but it was Al Jazzar who identified the disease in […]
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Fri 24 April 2020: The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Thursday that: “It would not be acceptable for countries to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to restrict human rights.” Guterres confirmed in a statement that: “In the context of the growing ethnic nationalism, populism, tyranny and the decline in human rights in some […]
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Fri 24 April 2020: Turkey on Thursday donated emergency food aid for 3,000 poor households in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on the eve of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. “We stand by our brothers and sisters in Bangladesh, who are the most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and its […]
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Fri 24 April 2020: Lockdowns are the wrong policy to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, are politically dangerous and will be difficult to exit, said Swedish Professor John Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists. Many countries have reacted to the coronavirus pandemic by imposing harsh restrictions on movement and social gatherings, ranging […]
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Fri 24 April 2020: (REUTERS) David Beckham, the former England soccer captain and now co-owner of Major League Soccer’s Inter-Miami, is giving fans a chance to play a five-a-side charity match and raise funds to help feed those in need during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Beckham’s offer is part of the “All In Challenge” in […]
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Fri 24 April 2020: Life isn’t going back to normal anytime soon, but public health and government leaders now have a better understanding of how to lift lockdowns in a way that minimizes the threat of a new wave of global casualties. International experts agree that global social distancing appears to work in the fight […]
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Besieged Gaza Strip .. in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan PHOTO TWITTER. Fri 24 April 2020: The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is a time for giving, with mosques and charities feeding thousands, but coronavirus has left many in the Gaza Strip wondering how they will manage this year. “The markets and mosques […]
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Fri 24 April 2020: US President Donald Trump proposed unusual methods for treating the novel coronavirus at a White House briefing Thursday, including ultraviolet light and injecting disinfectants. “So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or very powerful light. And I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but […]
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Fri 24 April 2020: (AFP) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo charged Thursday that China may have known of the new coronavirus as early as November, renewing accusations that Beijing has not been transparent. “You’ll recall that the first cases of this were known by the Chinese government maybe as early as November, but certainly […]
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Fri 24 April 2020: (AFP) In the US it was toilet paper, in Mexico it’s beer and in France, predictably, flour. The goods missing from stores reveal how the world is coping with coronavirus lockdowns. The winner for most bizarre shortage of 2020 is Afghanistan, where a rumour about a mustachioed newborn advising the purchase […]
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