A health worker takes swab samples from a woman for COVID-19 test on the roadside, in Bangalore, India on Oct. 9, 2020. /Xinhua India must control mobility and mixing to reduce a surge in infe
The illness spread by mosquito bites killed at least four times as many more people in Africa last year as COVID did.
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A South African health worker is inoculated with a dose of Covid-19 vaccine at the Khayelitsha Hospital in Cape Town on February 17, 2021. /Gianluigi Guercia/VCG The number of confirmed COVID-
TechCrunch just hosted a small virtual meetup with Detroit startups and venture capitals. Like the one we held last month in Miami, the event was a blast and featured a talk with two local VCs on wh
04:14 In Kenya, pregnant women are among those who have been greatly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.A recent health ministry report suggests that a section of pregnant women, afraid
FILE PHOTO: A medical worker attends to a patient in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK. /VCG Another 1,882 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus
02:40 Black-footed ferrets are carnivorous mammals that live in North America, mostly in the U.S. Considered an endangered species, the critters nearly went extinct around 1980."We hav
We hope you can make our virtual meetup in Detroit today. The event is free, features a pitch-off with Detroit startups, a talk regarding StockX, and a panel with Detroit VCs on best practices when fu
Dan Gilbert loves his hometown of Detroit. He loves it so much that the billionaire founder of what would eventually become the mortgage lender Quicken Loans has poured at least $2.5 billion into reha
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Labor activists challenging Uber over what they allege are ‘robo-firings’ of drivers in Europe have trumpeted winning a default judgement in the Netherlands — where the Court of Amst
A South Sudanese health worker receives AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba, capital of South Sudan, April 7, 2021. (Xinhua/Denis Elamu) Close to 40 million COVID-19
A medical worker shows a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 13, 2021. (Xinhua/Michael Tewelde) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 4,350,5
A worker sits on his cart at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran, April 10, 2021. (Photo by Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua) The Iranian Health Ministry on Sunday reported 21,063 new COVID-19 cases, takin
02:40 Beijing has established two new COVID-19 vaccination sites in itsEconomic-Technological Development Area (ETDA) in southeast Beijing's Daxing District as part of
A worker carries out sanitation operations for the Coronavirus emergency in Piazza dei Miracoli near to the Tower of Pisa in a deserted town on March 17, 2020 in Pisa, Italy. /Getty Images Ita