Japan remembers the victims of nagasaki, 75 years after the atom bomb was dropped on the city. In cricket, england stage a stunnng comeback to snatch victory in the first test. Hello and welcome. If you are watching in the uk or around the world, stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. International leaders will hold talks later today aimed at raising aid for lebanon following the devastating explosion in beirut five days ago. The Video Conference is being coordinated by france and the United Nations and President Trump is expected to join the call. Ahead of that, in the last few minutes the first lebanese government minister has resigned. The information minister, manal abdel samad, annouced she was quitting citing the failure of the government to carry out reforms. At least 158 people died and 300,000 were left homeless when a huge store of Ammonium Nitrate exploded in a warehouse in the citys port. 0fficials estimate that it caused up to 15 bill
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Tests on patients for up to 8 months following their infection with SARS- CoV-2 suggests an immune response can persist. Alessandro Sette and Daniela Weiskopf at the La Jolla Institute in California are optimistic this could mean vaccines would also confer long lasting immunity.
An analysis of samples from Kenya’s blood banks by Sophie Uyoga at the KEMRI-Wellcome Research Programme reveals far more people in Kenya contracted the virus than was previously know. The figures mean Kenya has similar levels of infection to many European countries.
And a study of mosquitoes by Louis Lambrechts of the Pasteur Institute in Paris reveals why Zika, a virus originating in Africa is much more prevalent in other parts of the world.