Street checkpoint in Wuhan, China. Credit: UNV
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 2020 (IPS) – Although Wuhan local authorities undoubtedly ostracized local medical whistle-blowers, notably , who suspected a new virus was responsible for flu-like infections in Wuhan in late 2019, were apparently not delayed, and possibly even expedited, as the novel character of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for Covid-19 infections, was not immediately self-evident.
On 12 January this year, China publicly shared the genetic sequence for Covid-19 with the world. On 11 February, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses causing Covid-19 the “severe acute respiratory syndrome…
The African Storybook Project has developed writing and publishing apps that are promoting literacy. Credit: Saide
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 10 2022 (IPS) – Suwaiba Hassan published an engrossing story. She used digital apps that are giving literacy a boost.
The student from Katsina State in Nigeria, Hassan, won a National Reading Competition for a story she created using the African Storybook reader app and the African Storybook maker app. , an education NGO, developed the apps through its African Storybook (ASb) project.
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