Latest news and updates from WHO Dear colleagues and friends, World TB Day, this year, comes at a sobering time – as the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic. We stand in solidarity with those affected, those at the frontlines of the fight to combat COVID-19, as well as those who continue efforts to support […]
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The infection is being eliminated as a public health threat by countries that introduce widespread testing and treatment for those at risk Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238642-hepatitis-c-infection-rates-are-being-cut-by-testing-and-treatment/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
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The Nigerian Government on Wednesday proposed $30 per barrel of oil so as to work the 2020 national budget around that. The announcement was made by the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, in Abuja. Ahmed advised a review of the 2020 budget using a $30 per barrel price benchmark in favour of the previous
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I’m not a huge reality television show watcher, but what I do like to watch are competition shows. Whether it’s sports or competitive cooking, I like watching how people respond to pressure. (After all, as entrepreneurs we’re always under pressure!) ?Cut Throat Kitchen,? a new cooking competition show, is the perfect analogy for how we
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Geneva – New World Health Organization (WHO) guidance will help countries accelerate efforts to stop people with tuberculosis (TB) infection becoming sick with TB by giving them preventive treatment. A quarter of the world‘s population is estimated to be infected with TB bacteria. These people are neither sick nor contagious. However, they are at greater
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This image of an enormous ship under construction features in a new book and show that challenge common ideas about beauty – while the real ship may help cut carbon emissions Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532732-800-peer-into-a-giant-half-formed-ship-that-can-hold-18000-containers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
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Delta Air Lines on Friday warned the coronavirus pandemic will cut its second quarter earnings by 80 percent compared to 2019, and ratings agency S&P said other US carriers faced similar fates. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-delta-revenue-carriers-doom.html Views: 0
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Australia’s biggest airline Qantas said it would halt all international flights and suspend 20,000 staff in response to the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday, days after the island nation’s other main carrier Virgin shut its overseas routes. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-australian-airline-qantas-international-flights.html Views: 0
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Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways says it will cut its flight schedule by 90% in April after passenger traffic in February fell by more than half from a year ago amid travel curbs to fight the coronavirus. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-cathay-pacific-april-flights-due.html Views: 0
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Air France said Monday it will slash flight capacity by 70-90 percent over the next two months due to the coronavirus outbreak, joining a host of other airlines taking similar action. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-air-france-capacity-months.html Views: 0
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