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Ghana: "I-Don't Care-Ism" Is What Will Destroy Dear Ghana!
The figures of the infected became more and more indicative of the fact that the community at large had now begun to catch the
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South Sudan coronavirus: veep, defense minister, aides test positive
April 1 : Virus-free South Sudan reports paltry tests
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South Africa coronavirus: US gives 1,000 ventilators; cases pass 11,000
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Information on nursing home, residential facility clusters to be released Monday
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Nigeria: Decline in Non-COVID-19 Ailment Consultation in Hospitals Worries Govt
The federal government also said wearing face masks in public places is compulsory, going by the COVID-19 regulations signed by President Muhammadu Buhari, pursuant to Quarantine
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No health minister in Brazil as coronavirus infection spreads
The National Congress had not said anything about the Teich resignation, but the former minister of education during the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva government and left-wing candidate for president of Brazil in 2018, Fernando Haddad, published a tweet saying: “Who will be the next Health
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Tunisia: Kebili-COVID-19 - 80-Year Old Woman Dies in El Golaa
Tunis/Tunisia — An 80-year old woman from the locality of El Golaa, delegation of Douz-North (governorate of Kebili) died on Tuesday at dawn from Covid-19, local health director Jawhar Makni told
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Rapper E-40 Helps Prisoners During COVID-19 Crisis •
He’s manufacturing and donating 1000 gallons of hand sanitizer to San Quentin State Prison and the Federal Correction Institution in Lompoc, CA to support relief efforts amid the current health
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Study: New injectable PrEP prevents HIV infections
In the study, a large and carefully-designed trial, injections every two months of cabotegravir stopped seven out 10 (69 per cent) more HIV infections than what has been up till now, state-of-the-art PrEP, namely a daily dose of the pill formerly known as
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Black Soldiers in the Civil War | National Archives
The issues of emancipation and military service were intertwined from the onset of the Civil War. News from Fort Sumter set off a rush by free black men to enlist in U.S. military units. They wereturned away, however, because a Federal law dating from 1792 barred Negroes from bearing arms for the
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Coronavirus in Africa: 81,608 cases; 2,708 deaths; 31,122 recoveries
There are now more than over 80,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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Kenya receives €188m AfDB loan to boost COVID-19 response
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank, today approved an €188 million loan to support the Government of Kenya’s efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate the related economic, health and social
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COVID-19 could linger for years, African govts must sit up - WHO warns
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Eritrea coronavirus: one active case left as 38 patients recover
April 18, 2020: Eritrea president likens COVID-19 to sudden war
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Ethiopia coronavirus: Key updates between March 16 - May 16
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Williams, Daniel Hale (1856-1931)
Daniel Hale Williams III was a pioneeringsurgeon best known for performing in 1893 one of the world’s first successfulopen heart surgeries.  Williams was born on January18, 1856, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania toSarah Price Williams and Daniel Hale Williams II .  Following the death of his
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Sailors on sidelined carrier get virus for second time
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five sailors on the aircraft carrier sidelined in Guam due to a COVID-19 outbreak have tested positive for the virus for the second time and have been taken off the ship, according to the
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Covid-19: Riek Machar tests positive
South Sudan’s First Vice-President Riek Machar and his wife Angelina Teny have tested positive for
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Rights doctors express dismay over lockdown extension
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Sierra Leone registers the highest covid-19 death rate in the mano river region
The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Sierra Leone on 31 March 2020, and the source of the outbreak has been linked to a wet market in Wuhan (Hubei
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Africa: 20 Percent of Africans Believe They Can't Contract COVID-19 - Report
But as cases increase, a May report by the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC), a public-private partnership initiative on COVID-19 in AU countries, found that certain misconceptions about coronavirus infections exist among
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COVID-19: Beware the super-spreader
(Trinidad Express) Lurking among gatherings of people, there can be a super-spreader of the Covid-19 virus, who can transmit the virus exponentially to large numbers of the
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Africa: The 2020 Global Nutrition Report Calls on Govts, Businesses and Civil Society to Step up Efforts to Address Malnutrition
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten health and food systems in Africa and around the world, the 2020 Global Nutrition Report calls on governments, businesses and civil society to step up efforts to address malnutrition in all its
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COMMENTARY: Old, Sick and Incarcerated
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Ghana coronavirus: 6,269 cases, 'learn to live with virus' - prez urges
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How Is COVID-19 Coronavirus Testing Really Going? What You Need To Know
Although this may sound like an ad for standardized test scores, it is presumably referring COVID-19 coronavirus testing, claiming that the U.S. is leading the world in such
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Guyana to benefit from UK COVID-19 aid to PAHO
Washington D.C., May 22, 2020 (PAHO)— The United Kingdom has agreed to contribute 3 million Pounds (USD $3.8 m) to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to help eight countries of the Caribbean – Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent
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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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Tufton credits flattening of COVID-19 curve to early response
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