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By TED CORDERO, GMA News Published January 19, 2021 12:33pm Updated January 19, 2021 1:31pm The Philippines is free of the Avian Influenza (AI) or bird flu, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Tuesday. In a statement, the DA said the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) declared that as of January 8, 2021, the country is now free of the last remaining A(H5N6) strain of the AI. The DA said the country was able to resolve the outbreaks of AI A(H5N6) in a commercial layer poultr...

Punch Newspapers Sections Our Reporters The Nigerian Medical Association on Sunday advised federal and state governments against disregarding medical experts’ advice on COVID-19. The NMA President, Professor Innocent Ujah,  stated this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents while commenting on government’s decision to reopen schools beginning from Monday (today). Ujah stated that although the association would not advise government not to reopen schools, he stated that aut...

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Edo State Government on Sunday said that the suspension of schools’ resumption is applicable to all educational institutions in the state. The government noted that the directive would be reviewed on February 1, 2021, when the outcome of efforts to check the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state would be evaluated. x Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Osarodion Ogie, who disclosed this in a statement in Benin City at the weekend, said the stat...

Governor Godwin Obaseki has said that Edo State has built the capacity to conduct 600 coronavirus (COVID-19) tests daily, even as there...

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An increased risk of COVID-19 transmission by safe burial practices “extremely unlikely”View(s): With different views being expressed on the debate of cremation versus burial of those who die of COVID-19, the Sunday Times sought the expert opinion of Prof. Malik Peiris, Professor of Virology at the School of Public Health, Hong Kong University (HKU), to get the scientific facts straight. Prof. Malik Peiris This is what Prof. Peiris, who is a clinical and public health virologist with a p...

Expert Prof. Malik Peiris highlights a gamut of issues at APACPH annual conferenceView(s): From left: Prof. Indika Karunathilake; Prof. Vajira H.W. Dissanayake; Dr. Sunil De Alwis; Dr. RaziaPendse; and Prof. M.C. Weerasinghe at the inauguration, listening to Prof. Malik Peiris. The science came first and then a beautiful image of earth, riveting the eminent audience physically present in the Lotus Room of the BMICH in Colombo on Tuesday and joining virtually from around 40 countries. The imag...

Photo. ANDINA/Ministry of Health of Peru 17:30 | Lima, Dec. 10. Peruvian Health Minister Pilar Mazzetti on Thursday received a set of Walk Thru booths donated by the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) for safe COVID-19 testing sample collection, and valued at US$50,000. The high-ranking official said these are five cabins that will be distributed among the areas with the highest population concentration such as Dos de Mayo Hospital, Raul Patrucco Specialized Reference Center for Se...

We cant identify right away. jenna: some of the symptoms sound like the common cold. what would stand out specifically about this? >> yeah, these are pneumonic illnesses, illnesses that involve the chest and the lungs, with cough, fever, serious illness and if you sake x-rays youll see that the lungs are involved with pneumonia, we would get specimens and send those to our reference laboratory, the cdc in atlanta that would do the investigation to see if this virus is involved and we are all on ...