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[ad_1] DAR ES SALAAM – On May 15, a passenger flight carrying humanitarian and health workers to Tanzania will arrive from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. This is the first such flight since commercial air services in Tanzania were suspended in an attempt to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The …

[ad_1] The first coronavirus case was reported in one of the camps hosting more than a million Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh. A person from the Rohingya community and a local person from the Cox’s Bazar district tested positive and were isolated, according to Bangladesh Refugee Commissioner Mahbub Alam Talukder. …

[ad_1] A new scientific article published on the prepress server medRxiv * shows that the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory disease that has spread worldwide to kill hundreds of thousands by 2020, shows that weather conditions reduce the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV- 2). Novel SARS-CoV-2 …

[ad_1] The National Health Service found that type 1 and type 2 diabetes was a major underlying condition in those who died of COVID-19 in England, according to the findings published Thursday by the organization. According to the report, more than one in four people who died with COVID-19 also …

[ad_1] Aid groups warned of an impending humanitarian disaster after the coronavirus was first detected in sprawling camps housing approximately one million Rohingya refugees. Camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, which are more densely populated than some of the world’s busiest cities, have been closed since March 14, in an attempt …

[ad_1] A Rohingya refugee in the massive Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh has tested positive for COVID-19. A local resident has also tested positive for the virus. World Health Organization spokesperson Catalin Bercaru told AFP, the French news agency, that rapid investigation teams have been deployed and the contacts …

[ad_1] The coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic has spread worldwide with unprecedented speed and lethality, killing hundreds of thousands of people and forcing the entire populations of the countries to self-quarantine. The virus technically referred to as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is believed to be zoonotic, …

[ad_1] Thank you Mr. President. In last month’s briefing, we reported that Yemen had confirmed only one case of COVID-19. As of this morning, that number had risen to 72 confirmed cases, including 13 deaths. Sixty-two of these cases, more than 85 percent, were reported in the past ten days. …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON – The wife of an Iranian journalist detained from the nation’s Derviche Gonabadi religious minority says she is distressed by authorities’ persistent refusal to temporarily release her husband from a prison plagued by coronavirus. In a telephone interview on Wednesday with Tehran’s Persian VOA, Faezeh Abdipour said she …

[ad_1] A new article published on the prepress server medRxiv * The first evidence is reported in May 2020 that vitamin D deficiency and inadequate treatment could increase the chances of testing positive for COVID-19. This could shape screening for people at risk for vitamin D deficiency. Classification of vitamin …