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[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Every Friday, Andrew Green selects top news and analysis from and about the African continent. After a decades-long eradication campaign, health officials declared Africa free of wild poliovirus this week, even as they called for continued surveillance against a rare mutation of the virus still circulating on …

[ad_1] ADDIS ABABA, May 15 (Xinhua) – Ethiopia’s Minister of Science and Higher Education (MoSHE) Hirut Woldemariam has praised the support and assistance of the Chinese government and companies to drive quality higher education in the East African country. . The minister spoke at a donation ceremony organized at MoSHE …

[ad_1] May 15: 287 cases, returnees reach 10,000 – says UN Total confirmed cases = 287 (new cases = 15)Total recoveries = 112 (new recoveries = 4)Total deaths = 5Active cases = 168 All new cases involve men. Seven with travel history, seven with confirmed case contact and one without …

[ad_1] TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Armed communist rebels are exploiting the Philippine government’s fight against COVID-19 to launch attacks, intensifying a violent 50-year-plus struggle with no solution in sight. The New People’s Army, active for 51 years in impoverished rural parts of the archipelago, has sustained the ambushes for which it’s …

[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] 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] -> T cells can search for and destroy cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 (yellow). NIAID By Mitch LeslieMay. 14, 2020, 9:00 p.m. ScienceCOVID-19 reports are supported by the Pulitzer Center. The immune warriors known as T cells help us fight some viruses, but their importance in fighting SARS-CoV-2, the virus …

[ad_1] Fighting the virus has unintended consequences, including a crisis of mental illness. The coronavirus is wreaking havoc on people’s health in a way that at first glance seems to have little connection to the devastating primary effects of the virus. The United Nations warns of new risks for children …

[ad_1] More than 140 world leaders, experts and elders have made an unprecedented call to ensure that COVID-19-19 vaccines, diagnoses, tests and treatments will be provided free of charge to everyone, everywhere More than 140 world leaders and experts, including the President of South Africa and the President of the …

[ad_1] A health minister hailed the UK’s approval of an coronavirus immunity test as a game changer that could allow more people to go to work with confidence, although the government has yet to buy any of the tests. Edward Argar said the test developed by Roche “appears to be …