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COVID-19
COVID-19 public health measures are essential even with vaccinations
By Shashika Bandara
On July 19, 2021, at a World Health Organization (WHO) press conference, COVID-19 Technical Lead Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove’s son asked a question that has been on all our minds “when will COVID-19 end?” Although Dr.…
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The pandemic has a new epicentre: Indonesia
By Fira Abdurachman, Richard C. Paddock and Muktita Suhartono
BEKASI, Indonesia — By the thousands, they sleep in hallways, tents and cars, gasping for air as they wait for beds in overcrowded hospitals that may not have oxygen to give…
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Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted
By Carl Zimmer
About a year ago, genetic sequences from more than 200 virus samples from early cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, disappeared from an online scientific database.
Now, by rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a…
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COVID surge in Africa raises fears of a calamity like India’s
By Abdi Latif Dahir
KISUMU, Kenya — Before Kenya’s president and other leaders arrived in late May to mark a major public holiday, health officials in Kisumu on Lake Victoria saw disaster brewing. Coronavirus infections were spiking,…
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They relied on Chinese vaccines, now they’re battling outbreaks
By Sui Lee Wee
Mongolia promised its people a “COVID-free summer”. Bahrain said there would be a “return to normal life”. The tiny island nation of the Seychelles aimed to jump-start its economy.
All three put their faith, at least in…
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Many post-COVID patients experiencing new medical problems, study finds
By Pam Belluck
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have sought medical care for post-COVID health problems that they had not been diagnosed with before becoming infected with the coronavirus, according to the largest study to date of…
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Why are calls growing to investigate the Wuhan lab leak theory?
By Joseph Stepansky
There is growing public support among the world’s scientific community for fully exploring the possibility the coronavirus may have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, leading to the global outbreak that has…
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Spared for months, Vietnam faces a wave of new infections
By Richard C. Paddock and Chau Doan
For more than 20 years, the husband and wife were stalwarts of their evangelical community: pastors who founded a small church in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where they led services and distributed food…
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India blames a virus variant as its COVID-19 crisis deepens
By Jeffrey Gettleman, Shalini Venugopal and Apoorva Mandavilli
NEW DELHI — At Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, a huge facility in the middle of India’s capital, 37 fully vaccinated doctors came down with COVID-19 earlier this month.
The…
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Young and infected: COVID-19’s new patients as India battles huge surge
By Glenda Kwek, Nivrita Ganguly and Nishant Saxena
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI / LUCKNOW - Ajay Singh Yadav only managed a final video call with Raj Karan before his close friend became the latest of an alarming number of young Indians, including…
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