Google Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre has been monitoring and receiving information on public compliance with the Federal Government ordered lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states, which contain measures to contain the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic. Our monitoring of the compliance with the lockdown and stay-at-home orders in Lagos, Abuja and few other…
Metabolites from urine or blood samples can be used to predict how much a baby will grow six months ahead of time, which could improve interventions for chronic malnutrition Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2240262-urine-test-can-predict-how-much-a-baby-will-grow-in-six-months-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality where everything is upside down Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532770-400-we-may-have-spotted-a-parallel-universe-going-backwards-in-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
To support executive decision-making, corporations need the proper strategic and marketing planning framework and informational processes, including a dynamic feedback loop which converts global news articles and other content into strategic intelligence which confirms or challenges corporate and business unit assumptions about the changing external environment. This article describes a new integrated solution: A Real-Time…
PETALING JAYA: Taking to Twitter with photographs of homeless people receiving shelter, Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said criticisms are needed for improvements. “We were criticised almost daily, but I think it’s ok. We need criticism in order to improve. Just be patient and remain steadfast in doing our level best during this…
PETALING JAYA: Simpang Renggam member of Parliament Dr Maszlee Malik (pix) took to Twitter today to give recommendations to Malaysians with regards to easing Movement Control Order (MCO) boredom. Pointing out that US Ivy League institutions provide free online courses, he said, “Still wondering how to kill time during MCO. Try this https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/here-are-380-ivy-league-courses-you-can-take-online-right-now-for-free-9b3ffcbd7b8c/” Read More…
LONDON: It was early spring when British scientists laid out the bald truth to their government. It was “highly likely,“ they said, that there was now “sustained transmission” of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. If unconstrained and if the virus behaved as in China, up to four-fifths of Britons could be infected and one in…
GENEVA, 9 April 2020 – A new story book that aims to help children understand and come to terms with COVID-19 has been produced by a collaboration of more than 50 organizations working in the humanitarian sector, including the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the…
31 Dec 2019 China reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A novel coronavirus was eventually identified. 1 January 2020 WHO had set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organization: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level, putting the organization on an emergency footing for dealing with…
The Twenty-fourth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the Director General on 26 March 2020 with committee members only attending via teleconference, supported by the WHO Secretariat. In order to ease the burden on affected State Parties in the exceptional…