Coronavirus – The march of a new strain
Reading Time: 4 minutesSENIOR author Professor Gabriel Leung from the University of Hong Kong highlights: “Not everyone who is infected with COVID-19 would require or seek medical attention. During the urgent demands of a rapidly expanding epidemic of a completely new virus, especially when system capacity is getting overwhelmed, some of those infected may be undercounted in the […]
A finger-tip snapshot on COVID-19 and other epidemics
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UN food agencies lend support to China over COVID-19 epidemic
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have jointly expressed solidarity with China and offered support to the country as it battles the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. In a joint letter to President Xi Jinping, the heads of […]
Genome of coronavirus sequenced by Pasteur Institute
Reading Time: 2 minutesON Jan 24, 2020, the French Ministry of Health confirmed the first three cases of patients affected by the Wuhan coronavirus. On January 29, 2020, the Institut Pasteur, which is responsible for monitoring respiratory viruses in France, sequenced the whole genome of the coronavirus known as “2019-nCoV,” becoming the first institution in Europe to sequence […]
COVID-19, new name for Coronavirus
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE World Health Organization says the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19. “We now have a name for the disease and it’s Covid-19,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva recently. It comes after the death toll from the virus passed 1,000. Tens of thousands of people […]