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VIDEO: Fauci warns a coronavirus vaccine is not guaranteed

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, testified for three hours before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

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Can migration of labour spur Kenya’s economic rebound?

In a report by the World Bank on the policy options of Kenya during the pandemic, there have been visible disruptions in trade and key sources of foreign exchange, which is expected to heavily weigh on remittances and foreign direct

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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Nigeria Disease Control Agency Says Negative Result No Longer Required to Discharge Patients

Mr Ihekweazu said the new discharge criteria for COVID-19 Infection indicates that patients can be free 14 days after the first positive

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Africa's unsung army of women wage war on Covid-19

As cases of the new coronavirus climb and Kenyans are told to stay home and avoid human contact, 38-year-old Omondi moves house to house through Kawangware's maze of narrow

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COVID-19 Indiana Phase 2 study findings released | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Results from the second phase of a scientific study of statewide random testing aimed at measuring the spread of the novel coronavirus in Indiana show fewer active infections and a greater number of people testing positive for

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Motshekga: 98% of pupils back at school

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga justified the decision to reopen schools amid the Covid-19 pandemic, saying 98% of pupils have returned to

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Source: https://www.news24.com

NY, NJ and CT expand quarantine advisories for travelers from 8 more states with high coronavirus rates | The Atlanta Voice

Governors in the northeast, once considered the US epicenter of the coronavirus, are tightening restrictions in their states for travelers from areas of the country now seeing upward trends in positive coronavirus cases and

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Thousands bid farewell to former Burundi president at state funeral

Thousands of Burundians clad in white gathered on Friday in the capital Gitega to say a final goodbye to former president Pierre Nkurunziza at a state funeral after his sudden death earlier this

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Covid-19: Kenya cases rise to 5,811

This takes the Covid-19 national tally to 5,811, Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi has

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Source: The East African

World Leaders, Stars Unite at Event Aimed at Fighting Virus

By The Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Texans begin voting Monday in runoff elections. Officials are doing what they can to make it safe.

Poll workers will begin greeting voters from behind face masks and shields as early voting begins in primary runoffs that will look and operate differently from any Texas election in the past 100

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Covid-19: 104 more test positive in Kenya

Kenya's national tally of Covid-19 cases increased to 4,478 after 104 tested positive in the last 24 hours, Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rashid Aman has

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South Africa: Joburg School Prepares Pupils for a New Normal in a Time of COVID-19

"Ultimately, although our kids enjoy being online, they are social beings - the vast majority of them - and you can see that if you've taught for many years, you know how much they love being at school and the social aspect," Gerassi

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Tunisia: COVID-19 - Mission of Mobile Military Laboratory Ends in Douz

Tunis/Tunisia — The mobile microbiological laboratory under the Directorate General of Military Health in Douz, from May 2 to 16, 2020, conducted a total of 1,161 tests for Covid-19 in the Kebili governorate before leaving the region on

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Source: allAfrica.com

EMERGING THEORIES ON BUILDING COVID-19 IMMUNITY | Muslim Journal

The human immune system protects the human body by launching numerous kinds of attacks against harmful invaders like viruses and

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US firm’s vaccine shows promise in first phase

A Covid-19 vaccine that has been developed by an American biotechnology company has been found to be safe and able to stimulate an immune response in the humans against the virus, its manufacturer, Moderna, announced on

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Coronavirus immunity 'probably significantly higher' than tests suggest

Research from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital shows that many people with mild or asymptomatic Covid-19 demonstrate so-called T-cell immunity to the

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Dr. Fauci Confirms Institutional Racism Was A Factor In COVID-19 Impact

This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has come out to confirm that institutional racism is a contributing factor to the severe impact the virus has on the Black

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No Guyana, COVID-19 hasn’t gone away

All non- essential businesses were told to cease operations, and citizens were told about social distancing and the sanitising measures that we need to take in order to protect ourselves and to curb the spread of the infectious

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

DRC declares end of Ebola outbreak in east, second deadliest in history

The second-largest Ebola outbreak on record is over after nearly two years and more than 2 200 deaths, Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday, even as a separate flare-up of the virus continued elsewhere in the

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Algeria to keep borders closed till COVID-19 ends [Morning Call]

Algeria will keep its land, air and sea borders closed until the end of the COVID-19

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Dominica calls for Commonwealth aid to help cope with COVID-19

LONDON, England (CMC) — Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Wednesday said that the Commonwealth is uniquely placed to advocate on behalf of its members, particularly small states, on issues that threaten their survival such as the novel coronavirus

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UVA Doctors Discuss Impact of COVID-19 On Black America

Dr. Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, moderated the distinguished panel which featured Hilton, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia and co-founder of GoodStock

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

Covid-19 claims 29 lives in Breede Valley over 2 months - residents urged to take greater care

The simple, kind act of sharing food with a workmate could turn out to be the pathway to Covid-19, the Breede Valley Municipality's disaster management director has

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Kwame Kilpatrick denied early release from prison hit hard by COVID-19 outbreak

(Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty

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Ebola Outbreaks in Sudan and Zaire

On July 27, 1976, the very first person to contract the Ebola virus began to show symptoms. Ten days later he was dead. Over the course of the next few months, the first Ebola outbreaks in history occurred in Sudan and Zaire*, with a total of 602 reported cases and 431

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DR Congo declares end to Ebola in the east

Congolese Health Minister Eteni Longondo on Thursday officially proclaimed the end of the Ebola epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the second most serious since the discovery of the virus in

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Suicide in Black Children Once Unheard Of. Not Any More

In 2016, a study was published in the medical journal Pediatrics, which found that Black kids 5 to 12 years old were two times more likely to die by suicide compared to white youth in the same age

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Haiti nears 5,000-mark in COVID-19 cases

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Haiti continued to record more cases of novel coronavirus infections yesterday, with the authorities saying that the total had reached just shy of 5,000 cases since the first case was detected on March 19 this

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Namibia: African Swine Fever Contained in Omusati

The African swine fever that has killed close to 300 pigs in parts of the Omusati region, with an enormous and costly impact on small-scale farmers in the region has been successfully

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Source: allAfrica.com

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