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Ghana reaches out to Madagascar for its Covid-19 herbal remedy
Madagascar's President, Andry Rajoelina has already urged farmers in his country to grow more of the artemisia plant. In addition, the Ministry of Public Health said that one person died from the virus, bringing to 22, the total number of deaths since the country reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 19. [Full Article...]
University of Oxford Study Set to Test Hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 Treatment
Kim, from Wisconsin, has taken the anti-malarial drug for 19 years to help treat the pain caused by her lupus. A day after US President Donald Trump created a global furor after announcing that he has been consuming the controversial anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a prevention against the coronavirus, Britain launched an worldwide trial to give the drug to frontline health work... [Full Article...]
UK's COVID-19 Tracking System Under Fire Amid Warning of Second Spike
Brokenshire informed Sky News that the application "will be introduced in the coming weeks in parallel" with the system using track and trace team. Britain's tracing coordinator John Newton said the app would complement conventional contact-tracing, which was used in the early stage of Britain's pandemic before being abandoned as the numbers of cases soared. [Full Article...]
17% of Londoners Have Had COVID-19, Health Secretary Says
Where are the coronavirus testing centres? Alongside a fever and continuous cough, official symptoms of Covid-19 now include a loss of taste or smell. "Knowing if you have these antibodies will give us an idea if you have a better idea of contracting, spreading or dying from coronavirus". Mr Hancock also announced 338 more people have died with the virus, according to the Department of Health, ... [Full Article...]
Slightly Earlier Shutdown in United States Would Have Saved 36,000 Lives
The administration banned travel from China for non-U.S. citizens in late January, and later expanded the ban to include Europe, Canada and Mexico in mid-March. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. The new findings highlight the damage caused by attempts to downplay the severity of the virus by politicians like President Donald Trump, who claimed March 9 on Twitter that there were o... [Full Article...]
Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Permanently Closing Stores Nationwide
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There will be 50 Bath & Body Works locations closed in the US and only one in Canada. Victoria's Secret plans to permanently close approximately 250 stores in the USA and Canada in 2020, its parent company L Brands announced Wednesday. There are Victoria's Secret/PINK stores at Crocker Park, Beachwood Place, SouthPark Mall, Great Northern Mall, Great Lakes Mall and Summit Mall. Investors wer... [Full Article...]
Several states may have provided misleading coronavirus test numbers
Nose swab or saliva samples help determine if a patient now has coronavirus , while antibody blood tests look for biological signals that a person has been exposed to the bug in the past. Moreover, a negative test means different things for either test. "I suspect it will artificially lower the percent positive", Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ... [Full Article...]
Masked Man In Jennifer Lopez's Post Is Not What You Think
But it wasn't JLo's physique that got people talking, but an unidentified masked man peeking through her window. If you look closely behind J.Lo's right shoulder, there appears to be a man behind her. "If you look closely you can see Alex's arm in a navy blue shirt". The man in the photo was a business associate on Zoom (on the big screen) and his hand was covering his mouth. [Full Article...]