Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is still raging across the world. Everyday thousands of infected people lost their lives. What’s worse, there is no specific medicine and we do not know when the end of the pandemic will come. The […]
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What if there was a way of returning life to what it was like before coronavirus? No more social distancing, no face coverings, no fear of Covid-19. Of course the reason for all the restrictions is an attempt to […]
Sean Gardner / Getty Members of Heaven’s Gate, a religious cult, believed that as the Hale-Bopp comet passed by Earth in 1997, a spaceship would be traveling in its wake—ready to take true believers aboard. Several members of the […]
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With the global COVID-19 total just shy of 13 million cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a record high 230,000 cases yesterday, amid warnings from the group that many countries are headed in the wrong direction. The global […]
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Electron Micrograph of SARS-CoV-2. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH/Flickr/Public Domain) It is now almost six months since the world became aware of COVID-19 , and almost four months since the World Health Organisation declared a pandemic . […]
A multi-year study of flu viruses in pigs across 10 China provinces identified a swine influenza strain with the potential for pandemic spread in humans, researchers from China reported yesterday, based on experiments that also found that swine workers […]
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Over the weekend, there were no new deaths from coronavirus in London, Scotland or Northern Ireland. Slowly, the number of hospitalisations and deaths is falling across the UK. Rather than celebrating these early signs that the worst of the […]
Mel D. Cole / Getty / The Atlantic After months of deserted public spaces and empty roads, Americans have returned to the streets. But they have come not for a joyous reopening to celebrate the country’s victory over the […]
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The world continues to face an ongoing viral pandemic that presents a serious threat to human health. The virus underlying the COVID-19 disease, SARS-CoV-2, has caused over 3.2 million confirmed cases and 220,000 deaths between January and April 2020. […]