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WHO to probe coronavirus origin in China

An advance team from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus...
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Sustainable Devpt

Lagos to plant 500,000 trees in honour of COVID-19 frontline health workers

The Lagos State Government is to plant 500,000 trees in the next three months in honour of health workers on the frontline of the...
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Health

Expert highlights ways to stay sane amid pandemic

That the Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it lots of health and psychological dynamics is no longer in doubt; how to get out of...
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Sustainable Devpt

Niger Delta community enlightened on Covid-19, environmental management

A non-governmental organisation (NGO), the African Centre for Climate Actions and Rural Development (ACCARD), has commence a series of grassroot programmes to build resilience...
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Health

Africa surpasses half a million COVID-19 cases, WHO says

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 said Africa recorded more than half a million COVID-19 infections, with many countries experiencing...
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Prominent people diagnosed with COVID-19

One of the patriarchs of jazz, Libya’s rebel prime minister and the Chinese doctor reprimanded for issuing an early warning about the novel coronavirus...
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Human Welfare

Trade in fake COVID-19 products booming amid demand surge, says UNODC

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has warned that illegal trade in fake or faulty COVID-19-related products is booming amid a...
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Health

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced live on television he has tested positive for coronavirus. “It came back positive,” a mask wearing Bolsonaro told a...
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A third of animal habitats could experience multiple extreme events by 2085 – Study

By 2085, 36 percent of species’ current habitats on land could be exposed to multiple types of climate-driven extreme...
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Leaders call for Africa-led solutions following landmark court ruling on climate obligations

African leaders, policymakers, legal experts, scientists and practitioners have called for African-led solutions to climate change, as its impacts...
Health

Two-thirds of global hunger concentrated in 10 countries – Report 

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises on Friday, April 24, revealed that two-thirds of all people facing high...

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