Beijing shuts parks, Shanghai tightens entry as China COVID cases rise
LIZ LEE and ALESSANDRO DIVIGGIANO BEIJING shut parks and museums and Shanghai tightened rules for people entering the city as
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Women have always trailed men in research output: how COVID made the situation worse
THE under-representation of women in research is well documented. Emerging evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this inequality
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Bird flu puts organic chickens into lockdown from Pennsylvania to France
TOM POLANSEK and SYBILLE DE LA HAMAIDE ORGANIC and free-range chickens have been thrown into lockdown. Egg-laying hens that normally
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Fighting hunger in Joburg, one meal at a time
MOVED by the plight of impoverished people around her at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown, one woman decided to do something – and has made a material difference in their lives.
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Lockdown looms for Nigeria’s Delta
THE governor of Rivers State in Nigeria’s oil-producing Delta region said he may be forced to reimpose COVID-19 lockdown measures
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Five ways Uganda’s health teams provided HIV care in lockdown
UGANDA is currently in a partial country-wide lockdown. The “second wave” of coronavirus infections has been especially unforgiving. There is
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SA businesses, people gripped in fear
DESERTED streets, empty restaurants and shut liquor stores greeted the first day of South Africa’s move back to a harder
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Egypt extends COVID-19 measures
EGYPT will extend measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, including early closing hours for shops, until the end
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Pics: Ariana Grande gets married in private ceremony
MPHO RANTAO ARIANA Grande is now Mrs. Gomez. The pop singer got married to real estate agent Dalton Gomez, in
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Thrill of the silver screen returns to England as lockdown eases
HANNA RANTALA LONDONER Sam Poch was anticipating the thrill of the big screen lighting up as he waited on Monday
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