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Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 15, 2020
‘Starve or get sick’: Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown dilemma
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NAIROBI: Women and children fell to the ground, bloodied and trampled in a desperate surge for food being handed out in a Nairobi slum, as police fired teargas and men with sticks beat the hungry. As African countries grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, observers warn that the traumatic scenes which played out last Friday will
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 14, 2020
Children less sick from COVID-19, but still spread the coronavirus
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PARIS: For reasons unknown, children rarely have severe symptoms when infected by COVID-19 and may even be a bit less likely to get the disease in the first place, experts told AFP. But that doesn’t mean infants, toddlers and teens are not carriers for the new coronavirus, which jumped from animals to humans in central
Commentary: On sick leave, but China still makes great leap forward in Med Tech
SINGAPORE: It’s hardly surprising that online gaming, video streaming and fresh food e-commerce are in high demand during what has become over a month of (self) quarantine for many Chinese during the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. More interestingly, adapting quickly to this new reality, Chinese schools have massively adopted online education and Chinese companies