It would be fair to say Western medical practise was still very primitive in mid-19th century China. But, thanks to English medical missionary William Lockhart and several other pioneering British philanthropists like him, medicine, health care and hospitals developed, became more sophisticated and a new era of hospital care was born.
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On January 23, 2020, Wuhan was locked off from the outside world after the novel coronavirus outbreak started to get out of control. At the time it was unprecedented, but the world has changed a lot in these three months.
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The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights will create an alert and inspection system to denounce cases of human rights violations, within the framework of the National Strategy for Human Rights, approved by the President of the Republic, through Presidential Decree nº 100/20, of April 14.
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During the past few weeks, Lacoste has produced 100,000 individual protection masks to respond to the needs caused by the pandemic.
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Since a man shot and killed 15 women in Montreal in 1989, Canada has not witnessed a crime as violent as it was yesterday in Nova Scotia, where at least 10 people lost their lives. Enteelas, a police woman.
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Only 14 of the infected people are nationals.
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Police in Kenya implementing coronavirus restrictions have arrested four people who disguised themselves as mourners taking a body for burial, reports the BBC
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Italy recorded 433 more fatalities this Sunday compared to Saturday, the day on which 482 new deaths had been registered. It’s the lowest number of new deaths recorded this week.