HEALTH

            As the daily number of new infections appears to be falling in parts of the world, some fear the epicenter of Coronavirus could move to continent, despite efforts to lock down cities and countries, donations of protective equipment, testing kits and ventilators from China, one thing is clear Africa has not yet flattened the curve and the room for man oeuvre is getting smaller. A healthcare facility in Kenya's funding, Nairobi has actually been creating brand new beds preparing for a surge in Coronavirus situations, Africa has actually passed the grim turning point of 10,000 reported situations of Coronavirus, together with greater than 500 fatalities, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ACDC, as the everyday number of brand new cases seems dropping in components of the globe, some worry the epicenter of the infection might relocate to the continent. Around 60% of Kenyan capital's 4.4 million inhabitants live in...

                  When the novel Coronavirus has reached 210 countries and territories around the world, several countries tested negative, ruling out the earlier suspected cases, although some of them later reported confirmed cases, according to the count being kept by the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus resource center. What should we make of the countries that have not reported cases? Are they unable to test? Are they lying about their reports? Are they that isolated? The bulk of the states that have not yet reported cases are small Pacific Island nations followed by a handful in Asia and Africa. The Solomon Islands reported 4 suspected cases of Coronavirus on February 10 on board the MV Expert container ship, which docked at the Rennell and Bellona province of the country, samples taken from the 4 cases were sent to the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory VIDRL based in Melbourne Australia for testing and ann...

                             The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 that the chair of Harvard University's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department  Doctor Charles Lieber with two Chinese nationals have been charged with making false statements about his involvement and connection with aiding the People's Republic of China program to recruit foreign researchers and tried to help the Chinese government. “ It appears China paid Lieber hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years for his involvement with the Chinese entities and for his work on research for Chinese gain ” said U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling. Dr Charles Lieber, 60 years old, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with one count of making a materially false fictitious and fraudulent statement, Dr Charles ...

                   Countries across the globe are taking unprecedented measures to prevent the Coronavirus spreading, ranging from the extreme to the relaxed to the creative. More than a third of the planet's population is under some from of restriction, the World Health Organization, which has officially declared the outbreak a pandemic, has called on all countries to continue efforts that have been effective in limiting the number of cases and slowing the spread of the Covid-19. While lock down is not a technical term used by public health officials, it can refer to anything from mandatory geographic quarantines to non mandatory recommendations to stay at home, closures of certain types of businesses or bans on events and gatherings, according to Lindsay Wiley, a health law professor at the Washington College of Law, Coronavirus restrictions and legislation have already led to political unrest and major governmental changes. On Mon...

                The race is on to find out how the deadly Coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, Helen Briggs looks at how scientists are trying to trace the source of the outbreak. Somewhere in China, a bat flits across the sky, leaving a trace of Coronavirus in its droppings, which fall to the forest floor. A wild animal, possibly a pangolin snuffling for insects among the leaves, picks up the infection from excrement, the novel Covid-19 circulates in wildlife, eventually an infected animal is captured and a person somehow catches the disease, then passes it on to workers at a wildlife market. A global outbreak is born, scientists are attempting to prove the truth of this scenario as they work to find wild animals harboring the Coronavirus. Finding the sequence of events is a bit of a detective story , says Prof Andrew Cunningham of Zoological Society London ZSL, A range of wild animal species could be the host, in particular bats which...

                There's one country in the world that currently has the most knowledge and experience with Coronavirus, CHINA and specifically Hubei province, is where the COVID-19 disease emerged, it's where 83% of the 284,814 cases known to date have been recorded and it's where doctors and health authorities have been battling an epidemic for more than three months using unprecedented public health measures, including a cordon sanitaire and lock downs that affected millions. In recent weeks, though, the number of new infections and deaths reported in china has been declining, which suggests spread of the virus may have peaked there and that transmission is slowing down, at the same time cases are rapidly increasing in several other countries, with major outbreaks in Italy, Spain, South Korea and Iran, it's now critical that the rest of the world learn as much as it can from China's efforts to respond and limit the spread of the Coronavirus...

            The Coronavirus, till now Friday March the 20th, 2020 is affecting 183 countries and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance "The Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan. Due to the Coronavirus outbreak also known as  COVID-19, around 267,920 persons have fallen ill and 11,187 death cases and 90,603 recovered cases worldwide. In China as the epicenter of the outbreak, according to reports from 31 provinces, the Xianjiang Production and Construction Corps, there were 6,569 confirmed cases of which 2,136 were serious cases, a total of 71,150 discharged patients were cured and a total of 3,248 cases died, the total number of confirmed cases is now 80,967 were reported and 8,989 close contacts are still under medical observation. There were 0 new confirmed cases in Hubei province and 0 in Wuhan city, 703 cured cases "624 in Wuhan", 3 new deaths "2 in Wuhan", confirmed active cases 6,569 "61...

                                    China and United States standoff escalates as Beijing expels major US media staff, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists among staff ordered to stop reporting and leave. China will expel US reporters of three major US news outlets, in a hugely damaging attack on foreign media coverage of the country and an escalation of the showdown over the press between Washington and Beijing. The decision announced just after midnight Beijing time, requires US citizens working for the three major media to halt reporting and hand in their press cards within 10 days, if their credential expire before the end of 2020. China usually gives journalists only 12 month visas and press cards, so the measure is likely to impact most correspondents, it will decimate some of the biggest newsrooms in China and force reporters with decades of experience cove...