Covid-19 pandemic to be 'far more deadly' this year, WHO chief sends out strong warning
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a strong warning that the second year of Covid-19 is set to be "far more deadly." Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, (WHO) Director-General issued the warning on Friday, May 14. He stated that "we’re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first." The DG …
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Japanese doctors perform world's first living donor lung transplant to a Covid-19 patient
Japanese doctors have performed what doctors say is the world's first lung transplant from living donors to a recovered coronavirus patient after operating on a Japanese woman whose lungs were severely damaged by Covid-19. According to Kyoto University Hospital in Japan, the woman underwent an 11-hour operation by a 30-strong medical team on Wednesday…
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Beijing overtakes New York City as City with most billionaires in the world after bouncing back from Covid-19
Beijing now has more billionaires than any other city in the world after bouncing back quickly from Covid-19, according to the Forbes' 2021 World's Billionaires List. The Chinese capital added 33 billionaires last year and now hosts 100, said the business magazine. This narrowly beats New York City, which hosts 99 and has previously held the top s…
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Queen Elizabeth to be removed as Barbados head of state in November 2021
The Government of Barbados has announced plans to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. The process of Queen Elizabeth’s removal would be complete in November 21 when the nation marks the 55th anniversary of independence from Britain. The decision was taken last year when a government statement said, “The time has come to fully leave our colonia…
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UK stops recruitment of doctors and nurses from Nigeria and 46 other countries
The recruitment of health and care workers from Nigeria and 46 other countries has been suspended by the United Kingdom government as confirmed in its updated Code of Practice (CoP). Africa Check had earlier reported that about 5, 250 Nigerian-trained doctors are on the UK books as at April 2018, a rise of 10 per cent on the previous year. The Sun repor…
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Search engine Bing mistakenly lists Prince Philip as dead (photo)
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing has mistakenly claimed UK Royal Prince Philip has died in hospital. As at press time, a search for ‘Duke of Edinburgh’ or ‘Prince Philip’ on the search engine brings up a fact box which says he was born on June 10, 1921 in Corfu and died in 2021 in King Edward VII Hospital. The latest news of the Duke’s illness from Buckingh…
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