[ad_1] Image copyright EPA Image caption New York’s governor says the goal is to provide 40,000 tests per day The US state of New York, the epicentre of the country’s Covid-19 outbreak, will allow pharmacies to carry out tests for the virus, the governor says.Andrew Cuomo said some 5,000 pharmacies would be able to carry out testing, with the aim…
[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ghana has begun lifting some restrictions African countries have fewer coronavirus cases than much of the world, but weaker healthcare systems do put the continent at risk.Lockdown measures can help prevent the virus spreading, yet governments have taken very different approaches to imposing restrictions on their populations.Are any countries lifting restrictions?Some, like Ghana,…
[ad_1] Image caption Speculation about the origin of the virus has been rife online From the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, conspiracy theories about the origin and scale of the disease were spread on online platforms. Among these were the false claim that the virus was part of a Chinese “covert biological weapons programme”, and a baseless claim that…
[ad_1] Image copyright AFP Image caption A Muslim devotee attends a prayer in Kathmandu amid a government-imposed lockdown across Nepal Millions of Muslims around the world have found different ways to celebrate Ramadan this year, as restrictions imposed by countries to curb the spread of the coronavirus have closed mosques and banned gatherings.This is when the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims…
[ad_1] When Abby Stein came out as trans, she sent shock waves through the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community. A direct descendant of Hasidic Judaism’s founder, The Baal Shem Tov, Abby’s parents considered her their first-born son and a future rabbi – but she was adamant that she was a girl. My dad is a rabbi, and having a son was a…
[ad_1] Image copyright AFP Image caption Mr Lam’s small bookshop was crowded with journalists and supporters at the opening A Hong Kong bookseller who defied mainland China has reopened his bookshop in Taiwan.Lam Wing-kee was one of five booksellers detained in 2015 after selling material critical of the political elite on China’s mainland.He fled to Taiwan last year for fear…
[ad_1] Image copyright AFP Image caption Officials in Guayaquil, Ecuador say the hospital was in chaos because of the coronavirus outbreak A 74-year-old Ecuadorean woman who was declared dead from the coronavirus has been found alive, in a case of mistaken identity.The family of Alba Maruri were informed of her death last month and later sent what they were told…
[ad_1] Five years ago on 25 April, a devastating earthquake hit Nepal, which shook the whole country. More than 8,000 people were killed, and hundreds of thousands lost their homes.BBC journalist Aamir Peerzada was filming a documentary film on Khumbu glacier of Mount Everest when the earthquake struck. It triggered multiple avalanches at Everest base camp, killing around 22 people…
[ad_1] Image copyright Reuters Image caption Testing for antibodies is becoming more widespread Governments should not issue so-called “immunity passports” or “risk-free certificates” as a way of easing lockdowns, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.It said there was “no evidence” that people who had developed antibodies after recovering from the virus were protected against a second infection.Such a move could…
