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Coronavirus patients recover 'much faster' with Ebola drug in encouraging results, doctors say
Antiviral drug Remdesivir was found to speed up recovery from coronavirus by almost a third.
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VideoUNICEF struggles to help 1.5 billion students shut out of school in pandemic
The global coronavirus pandemic, which has closed many schools indefinitely, has had a huge effect on students — 1.5 billion of them around the world, according to Robert Jenkins, UNICEF’s chief of education. “This is a whole new scale that even our worst-case scenario wouldn’t have thought of,” he told Yahoo News in an interview. UNICEF currently has education offices in 135 countries dealing with the effects of the pandemic. Jenkins said that for now the organization's focus is threefold: cont
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New Death From Ebola In Sierra Leone - Hours After Outbreak Is Declared ‘Over’
Someone has died from Ebola in Sierra Leone, officials have confirmed - just hours after hte World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak over. The two-year Ebola epidemic in West Africa killed 11,000 people and triggered a global health alert from the WHO. A swab test for Ebola tested positive.