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COLOMBO (News 1st) – Sri Lanka's health ministry reported the first case of monkey pox in the country.Sources said the patient had returned from abroad, and was directed to medical treatment.What is Monkeypox?Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although it is clinically less severe. With the eradication of smallpox in 1980 and subsequent cessation of smallpox vaccination, monkeypox has emerged as the most important orthopoxvirus for public health.

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Donors making a difference: Health priorities take centre stage at UNGA

Health workers at their WHO-supported clinic on the remote Murghab plateau in eastern Tajikistan. ©WHO

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Sierra Leone: the last mile of COVID-19 vaccine delivery

Sierra Leone, a smallish coastal nation of 7 million in the West African tropics interlaced by savannah and forest and grassland, was well on its recovery path from a hard bout with Ebola from 2014-2016 when the Covid-19 pandemic arrived.

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'My dream is to make the NFL': Prospect Park senior headed to Yale on full scholarship

PROSPECT PARK, Pa. - For a high school football player from Delaware County, the sky is the limit, as he prepares to head to Yale on a full scholarship. After that? Maybe the NFL?And, he is making his parents and his Prospect Park hometown proud."Today it actually hit reality, cause I was thinking, I’m actually going to Yale on a full scholarship. Not many can say that they’re going to a top school in the country and also playing Division I football," Abu Kamara stated.It is the dream of a lifetime for Interboro senior Kamara.

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New Ambassadors and High Commissioners present credentials to President

COLOMBO (News 1st); Seventeen newly accredited envoys to Sri Lanka including 11 newly appointed Ambassadors and six High Commissioners presented their credentials to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President’s House on Tuesday (21).The new Ambassadors were appointed from Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Hungary, Mauritania, Tunisia, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Spain and Slovenia.The new High Commissioners represent Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Botswana, Malta, the Republic of Guyana and Nigeria.1. Mr.

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Donors making a difference - Life-saving supplies

Over the past few weeks, contributions to WHO have helped acquire and deliver lab supplies in Sierra Leone, COVID-19 test kits in Uganda, vaccines in Guyana, and intravenous fluids to fill a shortage in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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At least 98 killed by oil tanker explosion in Sierra Leone

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - An oil tanker truck exploded near Sierra Leone's capital, killing at least 98 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said Saturday.The explosion took place late Friday when the tanker collided with another truck as it was pulling into a gas station near a busy intersection in Wellington, just east of the capital of Freetown, according to the National Disaster Management Agency."Both drivers came out of their vehicles and warned community residents to stay off the scene while trying to address a leakage emanating from the collision," the agency said.In this deeply impoverished country, however, crowds still rushed in to scoop up

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At least 92 killed by oil tanker explosion in Sierra Leone

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - An oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone's capital, killing at least 92 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said Saturday.The explosion took place late Friday after a bus struck the tanker in Wellington, a suburb just to the east of Freetown.The mortuary at Connaught Hospital reported 92 bodies had been brought in by Saturday morning. About 30 severely burned victims were not expected to survive, according to Foday Musa, a staff member in the intensive care unit.Injured people whose clothes had burned off in the fire that followed the explosion lay naked on stretchers as nurses attended to them Saturday.

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Two-dose J&J Ebola vaccine gives strong immune response

Johnson & Johnson's two-dose vaccine regimen against Ebola is safe and produces a strong immune response in people 1 year old and older, according to two studies published this week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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Marburg virus: Guinea reports first-ever case of deadly disease, WHO says

WHO news release. The infected person lived in a village in Guéckédou Prefecture, Nzérékoré Region, south-western Guinea. The location of the village is near both the Sierra Leone and Liberian borders. This is the first known case of the Marburg disease virus in Guinea and in West Africa, the WHO said. The Marburg virus, also commonly known as the Marburg hemorrhagic fever (Marburg HF), is a rare disease that can infect both humans and non-human primates, according to the U.S.

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News Scan for Aug 09, 2021

Guinea's ministry of health (MOH) has confirmed the country's first Marburg virus case, also marking the first in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today in a statement.A few days ago, Guinea's govern

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News Scan for Jul 19, 2021

Eighty percent of survey respondents in 10 developing countries indicated a willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 65% in the United States and 30% in Russia, according to a study published late last week in Nature Medicine.Researchers from the University of Cape Town in South Africa analyzed

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Covid: Balearic Islands removed from green travel list in blow for holidaymakers

Spain, and who have not been double-vaccinated, will have to self-isolate at home for 10 days upon their return home.In a boost for holidaymakers, Croatia and Bulgaria will go green, meaning arrivals in Scotland will not have to isolate for 10 days on return regardless of their vaccine status.Hong Kong and Taiwan will also be added to the green list, while the British Virgin Islands will go amber.Cuba, Indonesia, Myanmar and Sierra Leone will be added to the red list, meaning 10 days of isolation in a quarantine hotel are mandatory.All changes take effect from 4am on Monday.Minister for environment Mairi McAllan said: “From the outset we have said caution is required regarding international travel and people should think very carefully

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Asylum-seekers stuck in Cyprus' cramped camp want out

NICOSIA – Emmanuel Conteh negotiates the muddy, rutted pathways in shorts and torn plastic flip-flops and says he can’t sleep in his heavy canvas tent at night because of the cold.

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Families marry off daughters to ease finances amid COVID-19

KOIDU – The man first caught a glimpse of Marie Kamara as she ran with her friends past his house near the village primary school. Soon after, he proposed to the fifth-grader.“I’m going to school now.

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Black immigrants find camaraderie, divide amid protests

Inspired by the global protests against systemic racism and police brutality, Nigerian American blogger Nifesimi Akingbe donned a black shirt that read “I am Black history,” and began recording a video. Akingbe then went on to list her frustrations about racism in America and directed her message to Black immigrant communities like her own: This is your battle, too.“When these cops see us or when some of these racist people see us, they see a Black person,” Akingbe said during the 34-minute video posted on YouTube.

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Young mum found dead by 5-year-old son after coronavirus lockdown 'broke her'

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Through my eyes: ‘Living my best life’ with sickle cell anemia

sickle cell disease.”My parents were devastated. My mum cried the whole day and night after the diagnosis.Originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa, they had only heard and seen nightmare tales of the sufferings and sudden deaths of people with sickle cell anemia (SCA).

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The Latest: UK government defends virus control strategy

Trump vilifies science, prioritizes politics— Pandemic means world leaders who skipped past UN meetings get their moment — Israel has reported a new record level of daily cases of coronavirus as government officials planned to discuss tightening a new nationwide lockdown. — One of only four doctors managing the COVID-19 unit at a Sierra Leone hospital is fighting to save his coronavirus patients but also to provide quality care for those afflicted with other infectious diseases.— Experts predicted early in the pandemic that migrant workers would wire home less money as the coronavirus hammered the U.S.

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Sierra Leone doctor in dedicated mission against COVID-19

DAKAR – Dr. Mamadu Baldeh can’t forget the 18-year-old who came into his hospital with COVID-19, gasping for air until the day he died.

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Canadians on Pride in the pandemic: What ‘began as a protest continues to be a protest’

Naomi Leone, found his chosen family.Keita, 30, immigrated from Sierra Leone to Edmonton with his family when he was 12. When he was 18, he moved to Toronto — home of one of the largest LGBTQ2 communities in the country.Since attending his first Pride, Keita has been grateful for the annual event for celebrating his identity.

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VIRUS DIARY: Facing the coronavirus, still haunted by Ebola

DAKAR – “Are you going to die?” my 8-year-old daughter asked me the other day. “They said on the radio that adults are getting sick and dying.”

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Kate Middleton and the Queen thank nurses across world with touching phone calls

The Queen has joined Kate Middleton in paying tribute to healthcare workers across the world on International Nurses Day.

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Covid-19: After lockdown, a world of masks

Dismissed as useless, now apparently indispensable -- wearing a face mask as protection from the new coronavirus is becoming commonplace around the world as countries begin to emerge from lockdowns.

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'I've never seen anything like this in my lifetime': Nurse who worked on Ebola frontline in Africa now leading Manchester Nightingale's coronavirus fight - manchestereveningnews.co.uk - Britain - city Manchester - Sierra Leone

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'I've never seen anything like this in my lifetime': Nurse who worked on Ebola frontline in Africa now leading Manchester Nightingale's coronavirus fight

A nurse who worked on the frontline of the Ebola outbreak is now leading the fight against coronavirus at the Nightingale North West.

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Mohamed Buya Turay's agent in Rangers transfer admission as race heats up for striker

The agent of Mohamed Buya Turay isn't ruling out anything for his client but has stopped short of predicting a transfer exit.

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Idris Elba planning to launch holiday empire in dad’s native Sierra Leone

Idris Elba wants to recover from coronavirus fast – so he can launch his Richard Branson-style holiday empire.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0