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'Water is life': Covid-19 exposes chronic crisis in Navajo Nation
AFP, Published on 29/05/2020
» THOREAU, United States: Amanda Larson pulls up at a water station a few miles from her home in the Navajo Nation and her three children get to work filling up large bottles lying on the bed of her pickup truck.
10% of diabetics die within days of coronavirus hospitalisation
AFP, Published on 29/05/2020
» PARIS: One in 10 diabetics with coronavirus dies within seven days of hospital admission, according to a study of more than 1,300 patients published Friday in the journal Diabetologia.
Australia bushfire smoke linked to hundreds of deaths
AFP, Published on 26/05/2020
» Smoke from Australia's deadly recent bushfires is linked to an estimated 445 deaths and more than 4,000 hospitalisations over several months, a government inquiry heard Tuesday.
Virus could infect more than 200 mn in Africa: WHO modelling
AFP, Published on 15/05/2020
» PARIS - The new coronavirus could kill 150,000 people in Africa in a year unless urgent action is taken, according to a WHO modelling study that says nearly a quarter of a billion people will be infected.
Virus 'eminently capable' of spreading through speech: study
AFP, Published on 14/05/2020
» WASHINGTON - Microdroplets generated by speech can remain suspended in the air in an enclosed space for more than ten minutes, a study published Wednesday showed, underscoring their likely role in spreading COVID-19.
Virus-free Pacific islands weigh risks of re-opening to tourists
AFP, Published on 08/05/2020
» SUVA, Fiji: South Pacific island nations have dodged the worst ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, but now face a stark choice between a risky reopening to tourists and economic collapse.
Grim economic data shows devastating impact of virus
AFP, Published on 07/05/2020
» LONDON: Evidence mounted of the devastating economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday as hard-hit Europe moved to further ease lockdown measures that ground its economies to a halt.
Millions at risk from known diseases as focus shifts to COVID-19
AFP, Published on 07/05/2020
» PARIS - As COVID-19 deaths climb ever higher in Europe and the United States, millions of lives are at risk in developing nations where lockdowns and overwhelmed medical systems are disrupting vital testing, vaccination and treatment for other killer diseases.
Forty years ago, Yugoslavia's leader Tito died
AFP, Published on 04/05/2020
» PARIS - The leader of communist Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, died after a long illness on May 4, 1980, just days before his 88th birthday.
Sun worshippers: Indonesians soak up the rays to battle virus
AFP, Published on 29/04/2020
» JAKARTA: From shirtless soldiers to teens suntanning on their parents' driveways, Indonesians are soaking up rays like never before in the hope that plentiful sunshine will ward off coronavirus.