The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries on Monday to press on with efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, noting the pandemic was worsening globally and had not peaked in central America. More than 136,000 cases were reported worldwide on Sunday, “the most in a single day so far”, WHO ... Read More »
Major study of thousands of patients led by University of Oxford shows drug is ineffective Hydroxychloroquine does not work against Covid-19 and should not be given to any more hospital patients around the world, say the leaders of the biggest and best-designed trial of the drug, which experts will hope ... Read More »
Wide-scale lockdowns including shop and school closures have reduced COVID-19 transmission rates in Europe enough to control its spread and may have averted more than three million deaths, researchers said on Monday. In a modelling study of lockdown impact in 11 nations, Imperial College London scientists said the draconian steps, ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 19 new Coronavirus cases were recorded in Lebanon. The ministry added that out of the new cases, 14 were registered among the residents and 5 among the Lebanese returnees. This brings the total number of cases in Lebanon to 1350. LBCI Read More »
When it comes to AI, much of the attention has been on deep learning. And for good reason. This part of the AI world has seen great strides, such as with image recognition. But of course, there are other areas of AI that look promising, such as reinforcement learning. Keep in mind that ... Read More »
The failure to consider air pollution as a factor in the higher rates of coronavirus deaths among minority ethnic groups is “astonishing” and “wholly irresponsible”, according to critics of a Public Health England review. The PHE report released on Tuesday confirmed the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on people from ethnic ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health said on Sunday that 11 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon, bringing the total number of cases in Lebanon to 1331. The ministry added that 9 cases out of the new 11 ones were registered among the residents and 2 infections among the Lebanese returnees. ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, commented via her Twitter account on the sectarian tensions that took place Saturday night in the capital, saying: “Yesterday witnessed a sectarian tautness that brought to mind images of the ominous, dreadful war.” “It is unacceptable to be drawn into any sort of discord,” the Minister ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Saturday delivered Lebanon’s speech at a high-level electronic meeting with UN delegation representatives and with dignitaries from Qatar, Nigeria, Kenya, Costa Rica, Sweden, the African Union, Italy, the IMF, and Lebanon, on “The Impact Women Leaders Are Having in the Fight Against ... Read More »
Biologist Carlos Ruiz has spent a quarter-century working to save golden lion tamarins, the charismatic long-maned monkeys native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Thanks to painstaking reforestation efforts, the population of these endangered monkeys was steadily growing until an outbreak of yellow fever hit Brazil in 2018, wiping out a third ... Read More »
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