Up to 40 per cent of first wave Covid cases could have been caught in hospitals
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Up to four in 10 patients with Covid in the first wave may have caught the virus in hospital, leading to a…
Will it ever end? WHO issues urgent warning as people are 'reinfected' with Covid variants
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Reading Time: < 1 minute According to Soumya Swaminathan, the chief scientist at the WHO, people have become reinfected with new variants of the pandemic. Read More
World Food Programme (WFP) cuts refugees' food rations in Rwanda as funding declines
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Today, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced it would reduce food assistance to refugees in Rwanda by a dramatic 60 percent, as…
UK's R number falls to below one for the first time since July
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The figure is now between 0.7 and 0.9, according to the latest estimate. Read More
Pfizer vaccine cuts Covid-19 transmission risk four-fold, even before second dose: study
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Reading Time: < 1 minute People vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine are four times less likely to spread the Coronavirus, even before they have received their second…
Vaccines? The Chinese got there first... Charles Kenny details a history of mankind's battles with infectious disease
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In 1962, the Nobel Prize-winning virologist Sir Frank Burnet wrote: ‘The most likely forecast about the future of infectious disease is that…
BSc degree, HIV test required to join Ogun Amotekun corps
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Reading Time: < 1 minute As the Ogun State Government begins recruitment of officers for its Amotekun corps, interested applicants are to meet some requirements to be…
In memory: Elias Phiri, community HIV and TB advocate
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Reading Time: < 1 minute On 27 January 2021, Elias Phiri, a long-standing and much loved community health activist died from COVID-19 after spending almost four…
UNAIDS: Global analysis estimated condoms averted around 50 million new HIV infections
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Global modelling analysis estimated that condoms have averted around 50 million new HIV infections since the onset of the HIV epidemic. Read…
Routine blood tests could be key to stopping the silent killer of liver disease
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Reading Time: < 1 minute New research has shown that results of blood tests routinely performed by GPs everywhere contain a hidden fingerprint that can identify people…