The World Health Organization has expressed strong disapproval of the suggestion made by some French doctors, proposing that Africa should be used as a testing ground for new Coronavirus drugs. This has sparked an angry reaction from the international health agency's chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who labeled the comment as “racist” and a product of “colonial mentality”. In a live TV interview, Jean Paul Mira and Camille Locht insisted that Africa is the best place to conduct such tests, citing a previous experimental treatment for AIDS that was carried out in Africa. However, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus emphatically stated that “Africa cannot and will not be a testing ground for any vaccine. We will follow all the rules to test any vaccine or therapeutics all over the world… whether ...

South Korean health authorities suspect that the coronavirus may remain dormant in human cells and reactivate after apparent recovery, as fifty-one previously recovered patients in South Korea have tested positive again days after being discharged. These patients, from the heavily affected city of Daegu, were placed in quarantine after initial diagnosis with the virus, and then tested positive again shortly after release.                                According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), these patients were re-quarantined, suggesting that the virus may have been "reactivated" rather than the patients being re-infected.   The KCDC also stated that viral particles may unpredictably reactivate after apparent recovery, though US viral experts argu...

The unsafe cell conditions during COVID-19 outbreak have been exposed by an Ohio prisoner, who expressed concerns over the risk of exposure to the virus, potentially leading to fatal consequences. The prisoner, currently serving time at FCI Elkton, a federal prison in Ohio, aired his grievances in a Facebook Live video. The video, which has garnered attention after being shared by American attorney and CNN Political commentator, Angela Rye, highlights the dire situation faced by inmates. In the video, the prisoner laments the deaths of three individuals within the prison due to the virus and draws attention to the potential threat to healthy inmates. Rye, in her Instagram post, urges the public to take action and calls for the implementation of the REFORM SAFER Plan recommendations. The p...

Following a deterioration in his coronavirus symptoms, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to the intensive care unit. A Downing Street spokesman announced that, on the advice of his medical team, Johnson has been transferred and has requested Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, as the First Secretary of State, to stand in for him as needed. The statement from No. 10 Downing Street read, "Since Sunday evening, the Prime Minister has been under the care of doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital, in London, after being admitted with persistent symptoms of coronavirus. Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has ...