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A decades-long struggle to find a virus wins the Nobel

[ad_1] Enlarge / This photograph of a bust of Alfred Nobel was taken just before the announcement of the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden on October 5, 2020. The first known human cases of COVID-19 occurred in December …

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AU urges removal of non-tariff barriers to help AfCFTA thrive

[ad_1] The African Union (AU) Commission called for addressing non-tariff barriers to realize the main aspirations of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA). In a statement released on Sunday, the AU said the African continent is on the verge of becoming the world’s largest free trade zone. But …

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Google Maps adds the COVID-19 layer to alert about cases

[ad_1] From now on, the popular navigation application Google Maps will report on COVID-19 outbreaks occurring around the world, with geographic information of the cases. The new functionality was added for users of the Android and iOS operating systems as an additional layer on top of the maps. More than …

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