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Get the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A 12-year-old girl in Louisiana infected with the novel coronavirus reportedly developed a rare inflammatory syndrome that temporarily stopped her heart. The condition may be the same one that doctors in the United Kingdom and elsewhere have warned is possibly linked to…

By Rowan Hooper Illustration of a doctor’s dream that involved her investigating quails’ eggs as a possible covid-19 cureJulia Lockheart, DreamsID.com If you feel you’ve been dreaming a lot more recently, the coronavirus crisis and lockdown measures could be to blame. Changes in sleep patterns may mean many of us are dreaming more or remembering…

Image copyright SEAN ELIAS - OXFORD VACCINE TRIAL Image caption Work began on a vaccine in January Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has agreed to manufacture and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford if the treatment proves effective.The company's chief executive, Pascal Soriot, said that "the need for a vaccine to defeat…

it had no new domestic cases and just four cases among people who came in from outside the country. The development was a stark turnaround for a nation that was battered early on by the virus — with 909 cases on Feb. 29 alone — and quickly conducted widespread testing and contract tracing of new…

GroundUp reported.The submission sent to the Ministry of Finance, Social Development and Women and Children by the Children’s Institute, Professor Ann Skelton from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Unicef South Africa, Centre for Child Law, Equal Education, South African Labour and Development Research Unit, Equal Education Law Centre, School of Public…