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“Mosquitoes do not practice social estrangement. They don’t wear a mask either.
As Covid-19 spreads around the world, it is vital not to forget that the world’s deadliest animal did not stop this pandemic.
Mosquitoes bite each and every night, infecting millions of other people with malaria, a disease that kills a child every two minutes each day. “
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Minister Hadi Sirika told representatives of the travel industry and airlines on Friday in a Zoom call that a reciprocal travel ban would apply to airlines and citizens.
“If they prohibit both passengers and carriers, that’s what’s going to happen,” Sirika said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that young people aged 12 years use masks to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic in the same situations as adults, while young people aged six to 11 use them with a risk-based approach.
Children over the age of 12 wear a mask when a distance of one meter from others cannot be guaranteed and widespread transmission in the region, WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a dated document on the WHO website. . August 21. The fact that young people between the ages of six and 11 wear a mask depends on a number of factors, such as the intensity of transmission in the area, the child’s ability to wear the mask, access to the mask, and the supervision of a good enough adult, the two organizations said.
Perspectives that have an effect on learning and psychosocial development, as well as the child’s interactions with others at risk of serious illness, also deserve to play a role. Children under the age of five deserve not being asked to wear a mask because of the child’s protection and general interest, WHO and UNICEF said. Studies recommend that older young people prospectively play a more active role in the transmission of the new coronavirus than younger people, WHO and UNICEF said, adding that more knowledge is needed to better perceive the role of young people and adolescents in the transmission of the virus. covid-19 explains.
WHO first pleaded with others wearing masks in public on June 5 to help reduce the spread of the disease, but in the past it had not issued express rules for children.
At least 1,300 migrants who have returned to Ethiopia are recently completing their Covid-19 quarantine across the country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Saturday.
More than 25,800 Ethiopian migrants have been airlifted since April 1 after losing their jobs due to the pandemic, IOM’s workplace in Ethiopia said in a weekly update.
“More than 1,300 new returnees were registered last week,” he says.
In the context of a country ravaged by corruption and economic inequality, the blocking of coronaviruses and a world in crisis, Sanef has to lift the veil and bring to life the heroes who make headlines as we honor the media with the Nat Nakasa 2020. Award, ” said the president of Sanef. Mahlatse Mahlase.
Journalists continued to paint every day, despite the threat of inflamed themselves and also, in some cases, to a precarious future. The industry has faced big cuts, big pay cuts and the closure of press houses, he said.
The splendor and recreational activities of the newly completed tourist attractions in Addis that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has introduced are revolutionizing the game by expanding the number of tourist nights in the capital, agencies told The Ethiopian Herald.
Tourists finish their visits in a day and make the most of the capital at the transit point, however, the new destinations have opened a new bankruptcy for tourists who need to stay more nights in Addis, said the head of tourism operations of Walk In Ethiopia Tour and Travel. . Gahsaw Mehret.
At least tourists can stay at night and enjoy the breathtaking views, he said. Projects are a blessing to the city, he added.
The school’s reopening committee is expected to reopen as planned on how to reopen to the government on September 21, said Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, executive director of the Ghana Education Service (GES).
The recommendation, Professor Opoku-Amankwa said, would be presented to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the final resolution on the reopening of schools in the pre-tertiary subsector.
The Director General announced Friday in his keynote address at a workshop on the allocation of improvement of GHG secondary education in Larteh-Akuapem in the Eastern Region.
Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said 154 of the new instances had been registered in Amuru. 153 of the cases were inmates and one was a member of the criminal staff.
Aceng said a criminal inmate entered Gulu Reference Hospital after developing Covid-19-like symptoms and symptoms. Since then, the detainee had recovered and released.
“In light of the above, the Ministry of Health has undertaken further investigations into amuru criminals. Of the 205 inmates, 153 inmates examined. Of the 28 members of the criminal staff, one examined the Covid-19,” Aceng said.
Aceng said all other inmates who tested positive had been transferred to Gulu Central Prison, while the criminal had been admitted to Gulu Regional Reference Hospital.
“Detainees are being cared for lately through a combined team from the Mulago National Reference Hospital and Gulu Regional Reference Hospital, which supports the Uganda Prison Service Health Team for proper management.”
A 116-year-old survivor of the 1918 Spanish flu, considered one of the oldest people in the world, died Saturday in South Africa, his circle of relatives said. In this photo record taken on May 8, 2020, Fredie Blom enjoys a cigarette while celebrating her 116th birthday at her home in Delft, near Cape Town. Perhaps one of the oldest men in the world, Blom was born on May 8, 1904, in rural Adelaide, nestled near the Great Winterberg mountainous diversity of Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. (Photo via RODGER BOSCH / AFP)
A man walks under a network of electrical wires illegally connected amid a national coronavirus blockade in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg. REUTERS / Siphiwe Sibeko
The G20’s “less resilient” countries are ready to face worse economic consequences than the richest after the pandemic, according to a report by global political threats consultantion Vethreat Maplecroft.
India, South Africa and Brazil will face the “hardest repercussions” as they face economic losses this year, analysts David Wille and Joshua Cartwright wrote.
The total number of cases on the continent has now exceeded 1.15 m, however, healing rates remain the highest with more than 880,000 more people fighting the virus. Combined South Africa and Egypt still account for the vast majority of all Covid-19 cases reported in Africa.
(Reuters) Moderately ill patients with Covid-19 had a breakthrough in their condition after a 5-day remedy with Gilead Sciences Inc.’s reaivir, however, the drug did not particularly shorten hospital remains and a 10-day remedy showed no benefit, according to new data.
The drug, which showed in a trial in critically ill covid-19 patients shortened their recovery time in the hospital, at the forefront of the war opposed to the pandemic.
Research from six hundred patients, published Friday through the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that sick patients treated with the antiviral drug for up to five days had a particularly high chance of improvement in some areas, for example, whether they needed it or not. compared to patients receiving popular treatment.
However, the researchers said that the clinical significance of the benefits gained for these patients was uncertain.
Dr. Osagie Ehanire said his country is coordinating with fitness organizations to obtain 2 billion Covid-19 vaccines once a vaccine is available.
Hundreds of doctors from Kenya’s public hospitals in Nairobi have called for a strike. Doctors are calling for a pay increase and better operating conditions, adding a step forward to the non-public protection apparatus (PPE), with the capital registering the largest number of Covid-19 instances in the country.
The Ebola outbreak in western the Democratic Republic of the Congo lit up a hundred others on Friday and killed 43 of them, the World Health Organization said.
The most recent outbreak of the virus was declared on 1 June in Mbandaka, a city of 1 million more people on the Congo River, just before Congo declared an end to a past epidemic in the east that has been going on for two years.
Nigeria will ban access to citizens of countries that allow Nigerians to enter the middle of the new coronavirus pandemic, the Minister of Aviation said Friday.
Nigeria will reopen its airports to foreign flights on 29 August, for the first time since March, and is developing regulations and protocols to allow resumption.
Minister Hadi Sirika told representatives of the travel industry and airlines on Friday in a Zoom call that a reciprocal travel ban would apply to airlines and citizens.
“If they prohibit both passengers and carriers, that’s what’s going to happen,” Sirika said.
South Africa has reported 3398 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 603338.
The Health Ministry said there were another 225 COVID-19-like deaths on Friday, bringing the total number of deaths in the country to 12843.
The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus crisis can end in less than two years, WHO leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday. The Spanish flu that hit in 1918 took two years to finish, heArray
“Our scenario now with more generation, of course with more connectivity, the virus has a greater chance of spreading, it can evolve rapidly,” he said. “At the same time, we have the generation and wisdom to prevent it.”
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