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Crew on tanker in French port tested for Indian Covid variant
Issued on: The French industrial port of Le Havre (illustration) Getty Images - Thierry Dosogne 3 min Sixteen sailors are currently in solitary confinement in Le Havre after testing positive for Covid-19. Their oil tanker had been in India and French health authorities are carrying out tests to see if they are carriers of the Indian variant which has been identified in five cases in France so far. Advertising Read more
16 of the 25 sailors aboard the Fairway, a Singaporean flagged tanker, were put into quarantine on 18 April while they were still at sea after they tested positive for Covid-19.
Landmark step in malaria vaccines as first trial meets WHO target
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25/04/2021 - 09:56 Malaria killed at least four times as many more people in Africa last year as Covid did, Professor Adrian Hill said Olympia DE MAISMONT AFP/File 4 min As the world marks World Malaria Day, a new vaccine has proven 77 percent effective in trials on infants, according to British researchers, in what could prove to be a potential game-changer against the deadly mosquito-borne disease. Advertising Read more
In a clinical trial in Burkina Faso, the Matrix-M vaccine developed by the University of Oxford s Jenner Institute was found to be 77 percent effective after 450 infants inoculated in 2019 were followed up for a year, the Oxford researchers said in a statement.