1.7 million #COVID19 vaccine doses arriving in Kinshasa, #DRC🇨🇩 today. This is the first shipment of the 6.9 million vaccines allocated to DRC through #COVAX.
Congratulations to DRC & the COVAX partners!
@WHO I @gavi I @CEPIvaccines I @UNICEF
Today is #WorldCancerDay. As cancer rates drop in wealthy countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen a 45% increase in cancer deaths since 2000. Last year, @TomBollyky explained why: https://t.co/hzud8bSxxM
Heard of SARS-CoV2 variant from Japan?
No?
How about one from South Korea?
No?
Surely variants from New Zealand & Vietnam?
Of course not
Because these places haven't given rise to scary variants
But what places have.....has big implications for ending the pandemic
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Does Type 2 diabetes run in the family? Prof. Jean-Marie Dangou from the World Health Organisation (@WHO) discusses some of the genetic predispositions to diabetes.
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