Need to know who is most vulnerable to COVID? Here’s an index that can do that
COVID-19 has spread at great speed since it was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation. Author DEREK
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How will the COVID pandemic end?
AFTER over 18 months of this pandemic, with the social distancing, mask-wearing and on-off lockdowns, what we all want to
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‘End is in sight’: tackling a rare disease in a global pandemic
EMELINE WUILBERCQ OKELLO Aballa Ognum regularly has to walk deep into the jungles of southwest Ethiopia to treat the water
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Experts answer questions on vaccines
BEATRIX LOCKWOOD AN unprecedented COVID-19 vaccine campaign is underway with tens of millions now inoculated in the U.S. and around
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Scarred by 2020, Gen Z looks to a COVID-free future
LIVES that had been focussed on school, university, sports or even going to K-pop concerts vanished overnight for members of
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COVID-19: How to reduce risk in the holiday season
DOYIN ODUBANJO, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Academy of Science DURING the festive season, travel and gatherings are sometimes unavoidable, even in
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Leaders in COVID fight praised in Forbes list of world’s powerful women
MATTHEW LAVIETES FEMALE leaders who have stood out for their handling of the coronavirus earned honors in the annual Forbes
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Can the United Nations protect human rights in the age of COVID-19?
ON the 75th anniversary of the U.N.’s founding, experts warn human rights violations are flourishing and say the U.N. must
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Pandemic adds to war in keeping Libyan children out of school
THEIR young lives already disrupted by war, Libyan school children face even bigger obstacles to their education during the global
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Why human rights should guide responses to the global pandemic
THE coronavirus pandemic has killed over a million people globally and disrupted healthcare and political systems, economies, social bonds and
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