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M Copyright  Ted S. Warren/Copyright 2020 The Associated Press In 2016, Dr Peter Hotez and his team were working on a coronavirus vaccine in Texas. The next step would have been to begin trials on people. Instead, he had to pull the plug due to a lack of interest – and funds. In March this year […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (KCNA-Yonhap) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is neither seriously ill nor had undergone heart surgery, South Korea’s spy agency confirmed to lawmakers on Wednesday. “At least, it is judged that Kim did not receive surgery or a medical procedure related to his heart,” the ruling Democratic Party of Korea Rep. […]

The White House is planning to wind down its coronavirus task force in the coming weeks as it shifts focus to reopening the economy. The move is a more formal recognition of a strategy that has been developing in recent weeks. President Donald Trump and his aides have been shifting their attention toward jolting the […]

Nigerians take to the roads again in Lagos on May 4, 2020, after five weeks in lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak. © Pius Utomi Ekpei, AFP Africa’s biggest city, Lagos, returned to work on Monday at the end of a five-week coronavirus lockdown. In the metropolis of 20 million, where exuberance and poverty live side by […]

This file photo taken on Nov. 29, 2015 shows the Turkish national flag (L) and the EU flag ahead of a summit on relations between the European Union and Turkey and on managing the migration crisis in Brussels. (AFP Photo) The head of the European Commission thanked Turkey’s president for attending and contributing to the […]

CALVIN MUNERLYN WAS SHOT DEAD ON FRIDAY. [SOURCE: BBC]M A woman has been charged along with her husband and son with killing a security guard who refused her daughter entry to a shop because she was not wearing a face covering. Calvin Munerlyn, 43, was shot in the back of the head on Friday at […]

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A plane carrying aid supplies for use in the fight against the coronavirus crashed in Somalia on Monday, killing all six people on board, the Somali transport minister said. He declined to speculate on the cause of the crash, but a former defence minister told Reuters he had spoken to a witness […]

Tanzania President John Magufuli  Dar es Salaam. President John Magufuli yesterday voiced his reservations about the accuracy of Covid-19 test results from the National Community Health Laboratory, saying some of them left a lot to be desired. Dr Magufuli said the newly-appointed Health ministry permanent secretary, Prof Mabula Mchembe, supervised Covid-19 laboratory testing for samples […]

 A new drug developed by UK scientists to treat COVID-19 patients is being trialled at University Hospital Southampton. Developed by UK biotech company Synairgen, it uses a protein called interferon beta, which our bodies produce when we get a viral infection. Initial results from the trial are expected by the end of June. There are […]

Trump, who has been criticised for not moving faster early in the year to stop the spread of the disease, sought to blunt the criticism by blaming China [Joshua Roberts/Reuters] US President Donald Trump has predicted 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the country and a vaccine to be ready by the end of the year, contradicting […]