Checkpoints in New York to enforce covid-19 quarantine

Visitors from 35 states with a sharp resurgence of the epidemic, such as the highly populated states of Florida and Texas, are currently subject to a two-week quarantine upon arrival in New York. In order to try to better enforce this measure, the mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the police would install “check-in points … Read more

Rob Kenney, the virtual dad from New York

Rob Kenney is not an actor or a celebrity per se. But his YouTube channel called “Daddy, how can I …?” Made him incredibly popular and his videos went viral. What made this father of two so popular is that he answers many questions from children and adolescents who live or have lived far from … Read more

Less than one in two Moroccans of working age are active

With more than a thousand daily cases since the beginning of August, the increase in contamination with the new coronavirus in Morocco is fueling concern and criticism in the local media on the management of the health crisis. “Morocco under severe strain”, “Infernal spiral”, “Fear of cities”, “The government is walking on corpses” … Under … Read more

Unitaid launches a vast call for tenders for the preventive treatment of tuberculosis

New reports, new measures and highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world. A compulsory vaccine? Australia on Wednesday launched the debate on the need for countries to make the future vaccine against the coronavirus mandatory, as contaminations start to rise again and restrictions multiply around the world. According … Read more

The Nobel Prize winner in medicine to a Japanese man who explored the cell “recycling plant”

The Nobel Prize for Medicine rewarded the Japanese Yoshinori Ohsumi on Monday for his discoveries on the “recycling plant” of our cells which, in the event of dysfunction, can trigger Parkinson’s disease or diabetes. – Mr. Ohsumi, 71, spent most of his career as a biologist at the University of Tokyo, where his experiences on … Read more

Insecurity and Ebola stain economy in Beni

In Béni, in eastern DRC, security instability and the Ebola virus epidemic are tainting the economic fabric of the North Kivu region. – Shaken for four years with massacres of civilians, the region of North Kivu sees its fields less and less frequented. The Federation of Congo Enterprises and local civil societyask the government to … Read more

DRC is going through the worst Ebola epidemic ever recorded in the country

The Democratic Republic of Congo is going through the worst Ebola epidemic ever recorded in this country, with more than 420 cases recorded in the east of the country. This Ebola epidemic, the tenth in the DRC, is special because more than 60% of patients are women. – Bénédicte is only a month old, but … Read more

In addition to Ebola, the DRC affected by cholera and measles epidemics

The Democratic Republic of Congo is affected by epidemics of cholera and measles, in addition to Ebola which has already killed more than 500 people in six months, announced the United Nations team in the country on Wednesday. – In the space of a month, more than 50 people have died from cholera in three … Read more

Measles speed race, deadlier than Ebola

She kills more than Ebola: a race against measles is underway in the bush in Seke Banza, in the far west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where this forgotten epidemic has killed more than 6,000 people in one year . – Several hours by motorbike from the capital of Matadi, measles has killed six … Read more

New President Appoints Premiers To Malawi

Leader of the opposition, Mr. Chakwera, 65, won the presidential election on June 23 against outgoing Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of the vote. The ballot, the second in just over a year, was ordered by the courts after the historic decision of the Constitutional Court to annul due to fraud the re-election of Mr. Mutharika … Read more