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Britain will send nine airline container loads of supplies to India over the next week Health workers and relatives carry the body of a COVID-19 victim for cremation in Jammu, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. India’s crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of life-saving oxygen to critical levels and leaving patients to die while waiting in line to see doctors. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 breaks down during cremation ...

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SHARE A malaria drug being tested in Africa has become the first drug to reach the efficacy rate required by the World Health Organisation. Researchers from the University of Oxford found the drug was effective in young children, even when taken at a lower dose. The results of the trial of potential malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M, carried out in Burkina Faso’s Nanoro region, were published in The Lancet on Friday. Scientists say if the drug receives approval, hundreds of millions of doses could be available to help stop the threat of malaria. Read More “These new results support our high e...

Prince Harry returned to the US to be with his pregnant wife Meghan Markle after a trip to the UK for Prince Philip’s funeral that included meetings with the queen. Harry met Queen Elizabeth twice, but there was no breakthrough in strained family relations, the couple’s biographer Omid Scobie reported in HarpersBazaar.com. His plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday afternoon local time after more than 10 hours in the air. Prince Harry and Meghan’s US television interview with Oprah Winfrey last month rocked the royal family with accusations of racism and indiffere...

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