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'At least three million died from COVID-19 in 2020'

‘At least three million died from COVID-19 in 2020’
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. A new WHO report indicates that there were over 3 million COVID-19 casualties in 2020. Copyright: MONUSCO Photos/Wikimedia Commons, (CC BY-SA 2.0). This image has been cropped.
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Earlier estimates placed deaths from the pandemic in 2020 at 1.8 million
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India is banking on locally developed kit to increase COVID-19 testing

India is banking on a locally developed, affordable home-use kit to bump up testing for COVID-19 and reduce the burden on public resources struggling against a runaway pandemic now raging through the country in a deadly second wave. ....

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COVID-19 had claimed more than 3 million lives worldwide in 2020

By the end of 2020, COVID-19 had claimed the lives of more than three million people worldwide, representing 1.2 million more deaths than officially reported earlier, says a newly released report by the World Health Organization (WHO). ....

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WHO releases new guidance for deployment of genetically modified mosquitoes

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidance for the deployment of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes to combat vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue. ....

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Golden Rice's unfulfilled promise

By Crispin Maslog
MANILA: Golden Rice, announced two decades ago as the answer to Vitamin A deficiency, is nowhere near production.
In 2000, a Time magazine cover announced the sprouting of “Golden Rice”, promising to enhance nutrition for millions of poverty-stricken rice-eating Asians. The magazine showed the father of Golden Rice, Swiss plant researcher Ingo Potrykus, touting it as “rice that could save a million lives a year”. (1)
A diet of Golden Rice pale yellow because of genetically embedded beta carotene from which Vitamin A is made by the human body could bring rice-eating consumers the gift of life and sight. ....

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