Stockholm (AFP) – Unlike most countries, Sweden never locked down during the coronavirus pandemic, largely keeping businesses operating, but the economy appears to be taking a...
Fellow Kenyans, As you are aware, the entire world is going through an extraordinary emergency. The last time the world faced a disease of such rapid...
Nairobi (AFP) – Kenyan police have been involved in the killing of 15 people since the country put a nighttime curfew in place in March to...
Questions are being raised over the Lamu County government’s political will to address the current Covid-19 crisis as it emerged that the current administration has failed...
A group of over 120 researchers from various institutions across Europe has performed the first genome-wide association study to reveal host genetic factors that may contribute...
The coronavirus strain that is circulating and causing infection in the country is not different from others circulating elsewhere in the world, the Kenya Medical Research...
A Wuhan doctor who worked with coronavirus whistleblower Li Wenliang died of the virus on Tuesday, state media reported, becoming China’s first COVID-19 fatality in weeks....
There is hope for a Covid-19 vaccine with eight out of 100 worldwide projects going into clinical trial stage this week, with health experts however concerned...
WUHAN, CHINA|KENYA INSIGHTS| Wuhan is set to complete the testing of its entire population of 11 million as China pours massive resources into avoiding a resurgence...
Safaricom becomes one of the latest companies to be hit with the Covid-19. According to a statement issued by the Teleco’s CEO, a staff member from...
By Dr. John Lee As a pathologist, I’m used to people thinking that my job mainly involves dealing with death. But nothing could be further from...
Russian scientists plan to start clinical trials within two weeks on a vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus, the country’s health minister was quoted as saying...
(Business insider) For the last six years, bioengineers at MIT and Harvard have been developing sensors that can detect viruses like Zika and Ebola. In 2014,...
In a blow to the push for “immunity passports” as evidence of recovery from the illness in UK, a research evidence of possibility that person could...
Factually, misinformation spreading via digital channels is impeding pandemic response and stirring unrest. Some misleading information have caused dozen of deaths and infection allover the world....
Here comes the absurd. That let’s test poop to track and contain coronavirus. Yeah, poop. Oh, and stop farting ovyo ovyo. Farting may be spreading the...
A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt. The outbreak first emerged in...
Tanzania President Magufuli continues to be a man of his own and a rebel to the fear factor that Covid-19 came with. While speaking during a...
On April 29, 10 African heads of state met via video chat. The meeting was presided over by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, in his capacity...
By SAMUEL M. WAMBUGU One of the MAJOR REASONS why coronavirus pandemic/disease is spr eading (despite all the efforts and campaigns about washing of hands with...