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Hand hygiene plays a crucial part in the prevention of the spread of the new coronavirus.According to the World Health Organization, research has shown that nurses who regularly used alcohol hand rubs had less skin irritation and dryness than those using soap and water.As a result of the…

There were 250,687 cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, as of 10 July 2020.The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps a tally of global confirmed Covid-19 cases, which is updated daily.You can find the numbers per country here and here.

The percentage has varied over time. On 3 June, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported that 75% of Covid-19 cases in Nigeria had unknown sources of infection; 2% had a travel history and 23% were contacts of existing patients. “It means that community transmission is happening. It…

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, there is “no commonly agreed definition of what constitutes ‘femicide’”. It has historically been defined as the killing of women and girls because they are female. Collecting data on the motive for a killing can be difficult. Because of this, a…

The country’s 2015 Demographic and Health Survey estimated that 94.4% of women aged 15 to 49 and 94.1% of men in this age group were literate. Respondents were considered literate if they had attended school higher than the secondary level or could read a sentence or part thereof.A 2014 estimate of…

According to projections by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, there were an estimated 24.7 million women and girls in Kenya in 2019.Click here for a breakdown by age group.

If true, this would have been widely reported. The World Health Organization has not recommended any medication to treat or cure Covid-19 to date.

Dr Elisa Granato, a postdoctoral researcher in the Oxford’s zoology department, received one of the first two jabs administered at the start of a Covid-19 vaccine trial at the University of Oxford. She has denied reports of her death.More: ‘I’m very much alive.’ No, first volunteer in UK Covid-19…

The country’s GDP per capita (nominal gross domestic product divided by the mid-year population as per World Bank estimates) was US$2,028 in 2018.Related: Nigeria’s economy: services drive GDP, but oil still dominates exports