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Nigerian woman, 68, gives birth to twins after four IVF attempts

April 23, 2020, 5:06 am
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Nigerian mother Margaret Adenuga and her husband Noah with their twins, a boy and a girl on April 19, 2020 at the maternity ward of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria.

By Bukola Adebayo, CNN

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) - A Nigerian woman has given birth to twins, a boy, and a girl at the age of 68.

Margaret Adenuga went through three previous IVF procedures before finally having twins.

Her husband Noah Adenuga, 77 told CNN the couple, who married in 1974 had long desired to have a child of their own.

Adenuga said they never gave up even after the failed attempts.

The retired stock auditor told CNN, "I am a dreamer, and I was convinced this particular dream of ours will come to pass."  Read more >>
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How A Honey Company In Savannah Is Helping 15 Beekeepers In The Bahamas

April 23, 2020, 5:16 am
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The Savannah Bee Company and The Bee Cause Project partner with the Exuma Foundation to support local beekeepers on Great Exuma Island. Courtesy of Savannah Bee Company.

By Claudia Alarcón

In 2015 Catherine Booker, a former employee of Savannah Bee Company, reached out to Dennard to help figure out how to bring bees to Exuma, the Bahamian island best known for its swimming pigs. At the time, there were no bees on the island, and in fact, natives couldn’t recall a time when there ever had been. Concerned that this was posing a severe threat to the pollination of native flora, Booker, an Environmental Educator with the Exuma Foundation, knew something had to be done.

The Exuma Foundation obtained permission from the Ministry of Agriculture to bring honeybees to the island in order to foster a cottage industry in the community. Over the course of several harrowing plane trips, all below 15,000 ft for the safety of the bees, Dennard and the Bee Cause Project carried 12 boxes of Varroa mite-free bees and began teaching sustainable and eco-friendly beekeeping practices to a handful of locals and schoolchildren.

Since the start of the project, the honeybee population and local beekeepers are thriving. There are now 15 beekeepers producing honeycomb and honey, as well as in-school beehives and educational programs, and The University of Georgia Honey Bee Laboratory has become a partner as well.  Read more >>
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TCI, Bahamas & US Coast Guard statement on illegal migration

April 23, 2020, 5:22 am
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By Deandrea S. Hamilton

#TurksandCaicosIslands – April 22, 2020 — The Turks and Caicos Islands Government and in particular, the Ministry of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services and the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force, join with the United States Coast Guard, to express serious concerns surrounding ongoing illicit maritime migration efforts and strongly warn against such dangerous travel.

As we continue to join efforts to combat COVID-19, we are concerned by the increase in unsafe, illicit maritime voyages and smuggling operations in which individuals risk their lives and that of their families.

Maritime smuggling operations are dangerous and too frequently end in tragedy and death at sea.  While there are many different reasons that migrants attempt such unsafe voyages at sea, none of them are worth the risk of life.  Read more >>
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Coronavirus cases hit 70

April 23, 2020, 5:34 am
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By Royston Jones Jr.

Five more cases of COVID-19 confirmed.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Five more people have tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19), including a 63-year-old woman from Bimini who has been quarantined in a government facility.

According to the Ministry of Health, the new patients include a 78-year-old man from Bimini; a 65-year-old man from New Providence who has been hospitalized; a 33-year-old man of New Providence; and a 28-year-old woman of New Providence.

All the cases had no history of travel.

With the exception of the woman from Bimini and the 65-year-old man who have been hospitalized, the remaining patients are reportedly in isolation at home.

The new cases pushes the total COVID-19 infections in The Bahamas to 70 — 60 in New Providence, seven in Grand Bahama, two in Bimini and one in Cat Cay.

The Ministry of Health reminded individuals in isolation or quarantined at home to stay in their homes until that isolation or quarantined period has ended.

“Kindly give consideration to having a family member complete shopping errands for essential items,” the ministry said.

As of 4.30pm today, there were 792 people in quarantine in either self-isolation or government facilities.

Twelve people had recovered.

There have been nine COVID-19 related deaths in The Bahamas.

Globally, over 2.6 million people have been infected and more than 182,000 people have died.

Another 700,000-plus people have recovered.  (source)
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MP Lewis: ‘Home repairs moving full steam ahead’

April 23, 2020, 5:38 am
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IRAM LEWIS Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reconstruction

By FN Night Editor Barbara Walkin

Disaster Reconstruction Authority (DRA) Home Repair Programme in Grand Bahama and Abaco, is moving “full steam ahead,” said Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reconstruction, Iram Lewis, MP.

“We are moving full steam ahead with hurricane reconstruction,” Lewis confirmed, when contacted by this daily recently.

“During the complete lockdowns, we did not allow construction to continue, except for the Rand Memorial Hospital COVID-19 section and the Cancer Association facility,” he added.

Lewis said that every resident who applied, so far, has been processed and issued vouchers, although The Freeport News has been informed by a number of persons, to the contrary.  Read more >>
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Brave Raises Concern Over Police Actions

April 23, 2020, 5:47 am
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Leader of the Opposition Philip 'Brave' Davis. Photo: Terrel W. Carey Sr/Tribune Staff

By KHRISNA RUSSELL
Tribune Chief Reporter
krussell@tribunemedia.net

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis has said he is concerned about the management of the Royal Bahamas Police Force in light of the recent events including promotions of three Chief Superintendents to Assistant Commissioners.

According to Mr Davis there was evidence that several senior police officers had been previously sidestepped by the political directorate without a plausible reason.

In a press statement, Mr Davis said he also has issues with recent events surrounding businessman Jonathan Ash who was allowed to run into the Nassau Street Court complex on Monday to face charges for breaching the national curfew and COVID-19 emergency orders. Ash was not handcuffed nor shackled for his court appearance where he was fined $7,000 for the offence after pleading guilty.

“Let me be clear that the PLP supports a politically neutral force - one that acts without fear or favour,” Mr Davis said. “This does not mean that individual officers may not have their personal preferences but these preferences must never interfere with the execution of their duties and in the application of Force Orders in a non discriminatory manner toward the public. I use discriminatory to mean treating one class or group or individual differently from another class or group or individual because of their parochial, political, familiar or other ties with the force or the government.  Read more >>
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After BPL incident, govt looking at draconian measures to enforce quarantine

April 23, 2020, 5:54 am
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Minister of Health, Dr. Duane Sands

By Jasper Ward

The possible exposure of a small number of Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) employees to COVID-19 created “pandemonium”, Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands said yesterday, noting that the government has to look at “more draconian measures” to ensure that people adhere to quarantine measures.

The incident, which occurred around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, led to the closure of BPL’s Peter I. Bethel Building on Baillou Hill Road.

Yesterday, while speaking about the matter, Sands told The Nassau Guardian, “A lot of this is predicated on personal responsibility. The assumption is that we are honorable men and women, and the majority of us are but some of us are not.  Read more >>
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‘Telemedicine up 400%-500% since COVID,’ Could spell the end to crowded doctors’ offices

April 23, 2020, 6:02 am
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Arlington-Lightbourne MD

Dr. Arlington Lightbourne used to get four or so calls a week from someone asking him to diagnose what’s wrong over the phone. Today, he and his team in Central Eleuthera, Spanish Wells and Nassau are averaging that in a half day.

COVID-19 may be doing for telemedicine what all the attempts at persuading people to pick up a cell or tablet and dial a doctor could not – fast-tracking the case for telehealth, the practice of diagnosing much of what patients flock to a doctor’s office for without them ever having to leave their home or office.

“At least half the cases can be diagnosed by telemedicine and you can cut your office visits in half if you have a robust telemedicine platform,” said Dr. Lightbourne. From the patient’s point of view, that ‘platform’ is not complicated, though the physician’s office has to schedule efficiently and have instant access to patient records.  Read more >>
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Covid-19: Two More Deaths Announced

April 23, 2020, 4:49 pm
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Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands

Minister of Health Dr Duane Sands announced on Thursday that two more people have died due to COVID-19: a 53-year-old man and a 51-year-old man. The total number of deaths now stands at 11.

#There are also two new cases – both of them are women, one aged 29 and the other 52. The total number of confirmed cases is now 71. From that total, 61 are from New Providence, seven from Grand Bahama, three from Bimini and one from Cat Cay. Fifteen are healthcare workers. There are two newly recovered patients – 14 in total have recovered. Nine are hospitalised.  Read more >>
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NAGB News - April 22nd, 2020

April 23, 2020, 5:11 pm
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This edition of the newsletter provides an update about your favourite museum. While we are closed due to the COVID-19 emergency, we've been busy working on programming, social media content and fun activities that you can do at home with your families. We will continue to deliver initiatives designed to educate, uplift and inspire people of every age. Follow us on social media or visit our website for up to date news about the NAGB.

COVID - 19 RESOURCES

Our COVID-19 Resources page has something for everyone to stay entertained, engaged and inspired during this time of social distancing, quarantine and lockdown. Take a virtual tour of the exhibitions at your favourite museum or travel a little further to take a peek at the galleries of international museums. Now you can make something fun and creative with family and friends, play art trivia and learn more about artists and the NAGB as we revisit past artist talks and radio shows and take a closer look at the National Collection. To assist with virtual learning, we have designed lesson plans focused on the National Collection, Bahamian artists and museums; compiled a list of educational links; and created online video presentations.
More About the NAGB's COVID - 19 Resources

NAGB'S 4TH SUNDAYS

Join us this Sunday, April 26th for a virtual tour of our Permanent Exhibition “TimeLines: 1950-2007” on IG Live. Visit the museum from the comfort of your home!
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In New York’s largest hospital system, 88 percent of coronavirus patients on ventilators didn’t make it

April 24, 2020, 5:01 am
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In a tribute to health care workers, first responders and essential workers, the Bryant Park Corporation created a heart on its newly seeded 1.1-acre lawn at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan on April 22. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)

By Ariana Eunjung Cha

Throughout March, as the pandemic gained momentum in the United States, much of the preparations focused on the breathing machines that were supposed to save everyone’s lives.

New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) and President Trump sparred over how many ventilators the state was short. DIYers brainstormed modifications to treat more patients. And ethicists agonized over how to allocate them fairly if we run out.

Now five weeks into the crisis, a paper published in the journal JAMA about New York State’s largest health system suggests a reality that like so much else about the novel coronavirus, confounds our early expectations.

Researchers found that 20 percent of all those hospitalized died — a finding that’s similar to the percentage who perish in normal times among those who are admitted for respiratory distress.  Read more >>
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Coronavirus: Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment

April 24, 2020, 5:08 am
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US President Donald Trump has been lambasted by the medical community after suggesting research into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body.

He also appeared to propose irradiating patients' bodies with UV light, an idea dismissed by a doctor at the briefing.

Another of his officials had moments earlier said sunlight and disinfectant were known to kill the infection.

Disinfectants are hazardous substances and can be poisonous if ingested.

Even external exposure can be dangerous to the skin, eyes and respiratory system.  Read more >>
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Coronavirus: many patients reporting neurological symptoms

April 24, 2020, 5:15 am
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By Jeremy Rossman

As case numbers of COVID-19 continue to rise around the world, we are starting to see an increasing number of reports of neurological symptoms. Some studies report that over a third of patients show neurological symptoms.

In the vast majority of cases, COVID-19 is a respiratory infection that causes fever, aches, tiredness, sore throat, cough and, in more severe cases, shortness of breath and respiratory distress. Yet we now understand that COVID-19 can also infect cells outside of the respiratory tract and cause a wide range of symptoms from gastrointestinal disease (diarrhoea and nausea) to heart damage and blood clotting disorders. It appears that we have to add neurological symptoms to this list, too.  Read more >>
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Why coronavirus will accelerate the fourth Industrial Revolution

April 24, 2020, 5:32 am
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The pandemic's silver lining is the chance to experiment with technologies and co-operative approaches across borders that could lead to safer, more sustainable and more inclusive global futures.

By  Sanjeev Khagram

The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed in 1972 by biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge, holds that populations of living organisms tend to experience a significant amount of evolutionary change in short, stressful bursts of time. 1Gould and Eldredge argued that evolution isn’t a constant, gradual process—it occurs during episodes when species are in environments of high tension or especially crisis.

The human species is going through such a period right now: the covid-19 pandemic. The profound pressures that individuals, organisations and societies face in this crisis are accelerating the fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), blurring the boundaries between the physical, digital and biological worlds.2 The current state of emergency compels us to consider the necessity of structural shifts in our relationship with the environment and how we conduct ourselves as a global community.

The pandemic is forcing all of us to appreciate how much we rely on 21st-century technologies—artificial intelligence, the internet of things, social media, digital learning platforms, augmented and virtual reality, drones, 3D printing and so much more—to keep us healthy and to transform economies. The unprecedented context is simultaneously driving us to become far more reliant on breakthrough digital, biological and physical technologies and far more inventive about how we can use these emerging technologies to create value in new ways.  Read more >>
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Muslims begin unusual Ramadan amid coronavirus pandemic

April 24, 2020, 5:44 am
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A Palestinian youth hangs decorative lights in Jerusalem at the start of Ramadan.Ahmad Gharabli / AFP - Getty Images

By Adela Suliman

A glimmering crescent moon in Thursday's twilight sky, signaled to many of the world's nearly 2 billion Muslims that the holy month of Ramadan had begun. For one month, Muslims from Boston to Baghdad will forgo food, water and sexual relations from dawn to dusk.

The first fasting day of Ramadan will begin for many Muslims on Friday, and some on Saturday due to differences in moon sightings, and is an annual anchor in the Islamic calendar — a time when worshipers increase their prayers and acts of charity. They commune joyfully with family and friends at sunset, when they break the fast at tables laden with spicy dishes and sweet mint tea.

Not this year.

In the face of the global coronavirus pandemic, Muslims are preparing for an isolated and solitary Ramadan, with millions cooped up at home under social lockdown and mosques shuttered.  Read more >>
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Large-scale human trial of potential COVID-19 vaccine kicks off at Oxford

April 24, 2020, 5:52 am
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A photo provided by the COVID-19 Vaccine Team at the University of Oxford's Vaccine Centre in England shows a researcher working on the manufacture of a potential vaccine for the disease caused by the new coronavirus. SEAN ELIAS/OXFORD VACCINE CENTRE

By Imtiaz Tyab

London — In the global scramble for a COVID-19 vaccine, a select number of human trials are now under way, but it's scientists from England's University of Oxford who appear most confident that they're onto a cure. Professor Sarah Gilbert heads the Oxford team behind the potential vaccine being developed in partnership with the Jenner Institute. She's said it has an "80% chance" of success, and it could be available for wide use by the public as soon as September.

Human trials of the vaccine began Thursday in Oxford. It will be administered to 510 healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 55.

U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the government is "throwing everything" at efforts in the country to create a COVID-19 vaccine. He's pledged around $25 million in public funding for the Oxford project and an additional $27 million to research initiatives at Imperial College London. He says the U.K. is "at the front of the global effort" to find a vaccine.  Read more >>
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Supplier of World’s Nurses Struggles to Fight Virus at Home

April 24, 2020, 6:09 am
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Medical personnel move tanks of oxygen at a triage area for suspected coronavirus patients at Santa Ana Hospital in Manila on April 14. Photographer: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

By Ditas B Lopez and Claire Jiao

The Philippines is known for training nurses and exporting them to all corners of the world, but now the nation finds itself shorthanded just as its number of coronavirus infections and deaths skyrocket.

The islands’ death toll from Covid-19 has surged nearly fivefold since April 1 to 462, and the confirmed cases have tripled to 6,981 as of April 23. On Friday, President Rodrigo Duterte extended a lockdown over the capital region and nearby areas by another two weeks to May 15.

With more Filipinos becoming sick, the consequences of a medical brain drain are weighing on the health-care industry. There is an estimated shortage of 23,000 nurses nationwide, according to the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. The situation is so severe that most Filipinos die without even seeing a medical professional, a lawmaker said. Meanwhile, about 150,000 Filipino nurses currently work in the U.S. alone.  Read more >>
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Iceland's Plan To Stop Covid-19 Actually Works

April 24, 2020, 6:15 am
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Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way

April 24, 2020, 6:25 am
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The two countries, led by ideological opposites, are converging on an extraordinary goal: eliminating the virus. Their nonpolitical approach is restoring trust in democracy.

Australian officials closed Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach on March 21.Credit...Matthew Abbott for The New York Times

By Damien Cave

SYDNEY, Australia — Thousands of miles from President Trump’s combative news briefings, a conservative leader in Australia and a progressive prime minister in New Zealand are steadily guiding their countries toward a rapid suppression of the coronavirus outbreak.

Both nations are now reporting just a handful of new infections each day, down from hundreds in March, and they are converging toward an extraordinary goal: completely eliminating the virus from their island nations.

Whether they get to zero or not, what Australia and New Zealand have already accomplished is a remarkable cause for hope. Scott Morrison of Australia, a conservative Christian, and Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s darling of the left, are both succeeding with throwback democracy — in which partisanship recedes, experts lead, and quiet coordination matters more than firing up the base.  Read more >>
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Africa sees 43 percent jump in coronavirus cases in last week

April 24, 2020, 6:29 am
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By Zack Budryk

Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in African nations have spiked 43 percent after the continent was largely spared from the initial wave of the virus that spread across Europe and Asia.

John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned Thursday that the continent is “very, very limited” and “very, very strained” in its testing capacity, The Associated Press reported.

Nkengasong warned that the surge in infections was likely higher than official statistics due to the lack of testing. His comments came after a World Health Organization (WHO) report warned the continent could reach 10 million cases in six months.  Read more >>
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