Coronavirus

A railway ticket office worker who died with coronavirus after being spat at while on duty was allegedly told to go back to work the rest of her shift.Belly Mujinga, who had an 11-year-old daughter, was on the concourse of Victoria station in London on 22 March when a member of the public who said…

By Peter Yeung Getty Images TRIALS to develop a $1 covid-19 testing kit that produces results in less than 10 minutes are under way in Senegal. If it works, the test could be a vital tool in sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers at DiaTropix, an infectious disease testing facility run by the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, are…

At least seven workers at a ramen noodle factory in Virginia are in quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to local media reports.  The plant in Chesterfield, about 15 miles south of Richmond, remains in operation, according to WRIC-TV in Richmond. “Following the discovery of the infections, we conducted a deep cleaning based on…

An outbreak at a senior care home in West Salem produced the single largest weekly spike of reported coronavirus infections throughout Oregon, according to an analysis of newly released state data by The Oregonian/OregonLive.The number of coronavirus infections reported in the 97304 ZIP code more than doubled from 30 to 63 for the week ending…

online story in the UK's Daily Express newspaper, published on Monday, Humane Society International-Africa (HSI-Africa) has released a statement of clarification regarding the "misleading nature of its headline and various quotes" attributed to Audrey Delsink, HSI-Africa's wildlife director.The article was aggregated by other publications, among those The South African, which ran a story with the…