adminAir pollution exposure linked to higher COVID-19 cases and deaths – new study
The global death toll from COVID-19 has now passed half a million. To slow the spread of the disease, we need to better understand why some places have higher numbers of cases and deaths than others.
Robots Provide High-Tech Support to Combat COVID-19
SHANDONG, China -Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the Joint SDU-NTU Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-FAIR), funded by Shandong University, China and Nanyang Technological University, has developed two types of robots,…
What happens when flu meets Covid-19?
Optimists had hoped Covid-19 might not withstand the blistering heat of a British summer. However, those hopes have faded: the virus staged a recent resurgence in Iran amid actual blistering temperatures, and has had no trouble persisting in sultry Singapore.
Can You Get Covid-19 Coronavirus Twice? Here Is An Update On Reinfection
Bruce Y. Lee Can you or can’t you? That is the big, big question. Researchers have been trying to figure out whether you can get infected by the Covid-19 coronavirus…
Volunteers participating in Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine trials develop antibodies
Members of the second group of volunteers taking part in trials of a coronavirus vaccine at Moscow’s Burdenko Main Military Clinic Hospital have developed antibodies, Medical Service Colonel Sergei Borisevich, the head of the 48th Central Research Institute of the Russian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, told the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
Meaningful service to humanity needed . . . A Bahá’í Perspective
The challenges humanity is facing, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, call for mindfulness of well-being, health and safety for ourselves, our families and our communities.
Coronavirus: Protein treatment trial ‘a breakthrough’
The preliminary results of a clinical trial suggest a new treatment for Covid-19 reduces the number of patients needing intensive care, according to the UK company that developed it.
Only essential services staff to report for duty
As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe passed 1 700 yesterday, with more than half the patients infected within the country, the Government has decided that only civil servants providing essential services should now report for work while Chinhoyi University of Technology should close after a lecturer tested positive.
Corruption: City top officials denied bail
THREE City of Harare top officials, including director housing and community services Addmore Nhekairo, his predecessor and now director human and capital resources Matthew Marara were yesterday denied bail.
SA chips in with PPEs, test kits
South Africa through the Development Bank of South Africa yesterday donated protective equipment and PCR test kits to Zimbabwe.