HEALTH

                 Charity group Oxfam have warned that a recession caused by Coronavirus could push an extra half billion people into poverty unless urgent action is taken, conducted by King's College London and the Australian National University, the research gauged the short-term impact of containing the Coronavirus on global monetary poverty based on the World Bank poverty lines from 1.90 $ to 5.50 $ a day, global poverty levels would increase under all three scenarios for the first time since 1990 according to the analysis with up to a decade of progress lost globally, the impact is set to be even worse in some hard hit parts of the world such as North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East where up to 30 years of progress could be wiped out. The most serious scenario involves a 20% fall in income which would result in an additional 548 million people earning less than the World Bank poverty threshold of 5.50$ per day, the Unit...

            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...

               In the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic in late February, fake news has multiplied and invaded social networks, the World Health Organization twisted the neck of several web sites denouncing their spread and insisting on correcting a large number of false informations. Many governments had the aim to highlight verified informations from official sources and also to spot fake news on the internet as quickly as possible in order to reduce their rise, they start managing to slip through the cracks and help to disentangle the true from the false. Like the one that announced the US military bring the Covid-19 to Wuhan in October 2019,  there are persistent rumors that the United states has a role to play in the spread of Coronavirus in China, a video was in the media in March 12, the Director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Robert Redfield said it was likely that Coronavirus deaths had not been identified ...

                Fever, cough and shortness of breath. Those are the three symptoms prominently listed on the World Health Organization's website under Coronavirus symptoms, but as case counts continue to rise in the United States and across the world, it's clear that Covid-19, causes a much wider range of symptoms, the more detailed descriptions of the illness that are emerging show how doctors and researchers are still learning about the disease in real time, the pandemic which was first reported just three months ago, Covid-19 can begin in similar ways among patients, regardless of a person's age or health status. One of the first major reports on Coronavirus symptoms was published by the WHO in February, following their mission to China, that report based on nearly 56,000 cases there, found the most common symptoms were fever 88%, dry cough 68% and nearly 40% of those patients experienced fatigue, shortness of breath, stomach issues and wea...

                More than a million cases of Coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University, another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic, nearly 54,000 have died and more than 212,000 have recovered, the US has the most cases and more than 1,000 died there in the past day, the disease first emerged in central China three months ago, though the Italy kept be Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher, it took a month and a half for the first 100,000 cases to be registered, a million was reached after a doubling in cases over the past week. Nearly a quarter of cases have been registered in the United States while Europe accounts for around half, the pandemic is taking a huge economic toll, as an extra 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefit last week. Morgues and hospitals in New York City...

               We can pick up virus by touching surfaces contaminated with the new Coronavirus, but it is only just becoming clear how long the virus can survive outside the human body. As Coronavirus has spread, so has our fear of surfaces, these are now some familiar scenes in public places around the world people trying to open doors with their elbows, commuters studiously surfing their way through train journeys to avoid grabbing a handle, office workers rubbing down their desks each morning. In the areas worst hit by the new Coronavirus, teams of Workers in protective clothing have been dispatched to spray a fog of disinfectant in plazas, parks and public streets. Cleaning regimes in offices, hospitals, shops and restaurants have been increased, in some cities well meaning volunteers even venture out at night to scrub the keypads of cash machines. Like many respiratory viruses, including flu, COVID-19 can be spread in tiny droplets relea...

                  Their eyes are tired, their cheekbones rubbed raw from protective masks, they don't smile. The doctors and nurses on the front line of the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets, the flimsy battle armor donned at the start of each shift as the only barrier to contagion. Associated press photographers fanned out on Friday to photograph them during rare breaks from hospital intensive care units in the Lombardy region cities of Bergamo, Brescia and Rome, in each case, doctors, nurses and paramedics posed in front of forest green surgical draps, the bland backdrop of their sterile wards. Friday was a bad day in Italy as registered the most deaths since the country's outbreak had exploded five weeks earlier, adding 969 more victims to raise the world's highest COVID-19 toll to more than 9,000 which makes Italy surpassed China in total confirmed cases, stands beh...

 It wasn't until late December that Chinese officials realized they had a new virus on their hands but even then, China's government clamped down on sharing information about it with the public, according to The Wall Street Journal. A person believed to be the first ever human infected with COVID-19 has broken her silence, Wei Guixian is a 57 year old seafood merchant at the Huanan Market in Wuhan where the virus is suspected to have first made the jump from a bat to human, she described how she first started to feel ill on December 10, believing she had caught a cold or maybe the flu. "I felt a bit tired but not as tired as previous years, every winter, I always suffer from the flu, so i thought it was the flu" she said. The next day she walked to a small local clinic and got the usual treatment and an injection, before going back to work, the first steps in a global pandemic that has infected over half a million and killed more than 25,000 so far. When her symp...

                 As the new Coronavirus that has killed more than 24,000 people continues to spread around the world, Russia has stepped up its measures to tackle the pandemic and prevent its spread within the country, there have been 1,036 cases of COVID-19 infections reported in Russia so far and 4 deaths. The authorities confirmed 196 new cases on Friday, bringing the country's official number of cases up to more than thousand and making the largest one-day increase in cases so far, it also said one person had died in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths to 4, Russia will suspend all regular and charter flights to other countries starting today, President Vladimir Putin has declared that the week from March 28 to April 5 will be a nationwide paid holiday to encourage Russians to stay home and slow the spread of the virus. All restaurants and cafes have been ordered to close during this time with the exception of delive...

               The Bio-Terrorism and scientists' interventions in the genetic modification of biology, human and animal cloning, textile cultivation and other biological sciences are suspicions both interest at the same time, makes us stand for moments with the British astronomer Martin Reese "Full name Martin John Reese , Baron Rees of Ludlow , born June 23, 1942 in York, England" who wrote a book called "Our Final Hour" in 2003. In this book, there are confirmations of fears about the prospects of the Universe's End, he said: Predictions of a catastrophe which would destroy the world are rising to 50% from 20% was 100 years ago, because science is advancing to an unpredictable degree in a more dangerous area than ever before. Reese believes that the most important threats to humanity are the nuclear terrorism or the genetically modified lethal viruses, the breakdown of man-made devices and the genetic engineering that change human's natur...

                     The World Health Organization experts and according to latest statistics are saying that the United States is going to be the epicenter of Coronavirus outbreak, as the country is seeing a very large acceleration in cases, this comes amid concern the US president could be prioritizing the economy in his crisis response. Trump said he was eager to reopen the US economy in weeks, not months, even as the death toll from COVID-19 continued to rise, with more than 25,000 positive tests and 210 deaths, New York has become the epicenter of Coronavirus in the United States, the city now at a standstill faces a tsunami of sick and dying people , the Attack rate of the virus, the percentage of the population infected , is five times higher than in other parts of the country , leading Dr Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, to warn "To all of my friends and colleagues in New York, this is the gro...