Zimbabwe bans traditional funerals as Covid-19 cases surge
Tuesday January 12 2021
Pallbearers carry the coffin of late Zimbabwe s agriculture minister Perrance Shiri at his funeral in Harare on July 31, 2020. Mr Shiri succumbed to Covid-19. Zimbabwe has banned families from transporting dead relatives to their areas of birth for burial to curb virus spread. PHOTO | AFP
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Police also banned public viewing of bodies and the tradition of having a corpse stay overnight in the family’s home before burial.
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Zimbabwe has banned families from transporting dead relatives to their areas of birth for burial as it battles to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
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Two research groups have designed chimeric fusion proteins that constitute a new “trojan horse” approach to neutralize lethal botulinum toxins.
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Chimeric therapeutic fusion protein created by fusing a single-domain antibody against BoNT/A with the delivery platform (yellow: nanobody; blue: BoNT/X light chain and translocation domain; red: BoNT/A receptor-binding domain) [Source: Min Dong]“It’s not killing the neurons, but it silences them,” said Konstantin Ichtchenko, PhD, assistant professor, department of biochemistry and molecular p