Coronavirus: Blood clots targeted in treatment trial
The trial, funded by the British Heart Foundation, will test the theory the clots are caused by a hormone imbalance triggered by coronavirus infection.
COVID-19 patients with no symptoms likely to stay that way: Japanese researchers
What are the odds COVID-19 patients with no symptoms could develop them later on?
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MNOs risk lagging behind
As inflationary pressures continue to weigh on businesses due to increased operating costs, the country’s mobile network operators’ risks lagging behind in the digital wave that has been presented by the COVID 19 pandemic as mobile network operators charge unsustainable tariffs.
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- June 16, 2020
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African Union COVID-19 special envoys raise US$30 billion
African Union COVID-19 special envoys have raised US$ 30 billion for the continent’s response to the pandemic.
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- June 16, 2020
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Why global crises are the mother of invention
The eruption in April 1815 of Mount Tambora, a volcano in what is now Indonesia, was one of the largest in recorded history. A vast plume of dust and ash…
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- June 16, 2020
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Europe starts to reopen borders but no free travel yet
European countries ease some border controls on Monday after coronavirus lockdowns, but Spain’s continued closure, a patchwork of restrictions elsewhere and new ways of working mean pre-pandemic levels of travel are a long way off.
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- June 16, 2020
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Death of the office
In the spring of 1822 an employee in one of the world’s first offices – that of the East India Company in London – sat down to write a letter…
‘Three weeks of hell’: the peak of Covid-19 at hard-hit UK care home
Tears flowed at Melbury Court in Durham as the Covid-19 death toll ticked up toward 26, the worst known outbreak in a UK care home. Only 20 of its 82 residents, many of them with dementia, escaped infection.
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- June 16, 2020
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SA won’t join collective talks to suspend African debt
South Africa won’t join collective negotiations with creditors to suspend or write off African nations’ debt, an envoy for the country told the Sunday Times newspaper. Trevor Manuel, a special…
Multi-faith national prayer service lauded
A unique multi-faith prayer service at State House was the centre of the National Day of Prayer yesterday with the full spectrum of Christian groups — Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical and indigenous — plus representatives of the Islamic, Jewish and Hindu faiths converging to seek healing from the Covid-19 pandemic.