Diseases, hunger eating through children in arid, semi-arid regions
Tuesday June 01 2021
Rehema Mohammed with her son two-year-old Mohammed Juma. The child was malnourished but in the process of recovery. PHOTO | BERNADINE MUTANU | NMG
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Giving birth to twins at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic still ranks as one of the most difficult periods in Josephine Kericho’s life.
Kericho was not only unemployed but also fighting hunger. Had she given birth at home, the 25-year-old mother of five says, she would have died together with her now 11-month-old twins. Death would have come either at childbirth or shortly after from hunger.
A Covid-19 vaccine by China's Sinovac Biotech has been approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization, adding a globally recognised vote of confidence to a jab that's been at the forefront of China's vaccine exports worldwide. The WHO announced its decision to clear the vaccine, dubbed CoronaVac, for an emergency-use license on Tuesday, making it the second vaccine from a Chinese drug maker to receive the listing in less than a.