Sub county Public health nurse Winnie Mungai administering the Covid-19 jab at the start of Intensive National Vaccination Exercise of Kenyan athletes at Kasarani Stadiumon April 8, 2021. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] .
Scientists are yet to agree on the link between one’s blood group and the risks of contracting Covid-19.
The latest study conducted by a Kenyan researcher, which was published on April 2 by the University of Nairobi, concluded that individuals with blood group O+ and B+ were susceptible to the virus.
The conclusion is drawn from an analysis done of a family of six, who reside in Lavington, Nairobi. Covid 19 Time Series
Auhoud Sultan Al-Shehail has been appointed chairwoman of the media department at Riyadh’s King Saud University (KSU), in addition to her role as a spokeswoman for the university and media adviser to the KSU president.
She was previously vice chair of the media department and an assistant professor at KSU’s faculty of arts.
Al-Shehail has held other academic positions, including lecturer and teaching assistant, at KSU’s media department.
She has been an adviser to the Ministry of Education since 2017, was a member of the media issues committee at the Al-Shehail Prime Legal Support law firm, and a media director at Starcom MediaVest Group.
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A new coronavirus symptom has floated among the strange symptoms that come with the virus - the COVID tongue.
The world has been fighting off the pandemic for over a year, and while there have been downward trends in COVID-19 cases, doctors are still finding new symptoms of the disease.
Recent months have had a plethora of reports about the loss of sense of smell and taste among COVID-19 patients, but now, anecdotal reports found a new one called COVID tongue, reported Yahoo! Life.
CDC recently noted that, as can be seen in the discovery of the COVID tongue, its current list of COVID-19 symptoms does not cover all possible symptoms, reported Market Watch.
Before his appointment, Altekhaifi served as president of the General Authority for Statistics between 2016 and 2020.
He also served as chairman of the board for the Statistical Center for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-Stat), and also represented Saudi Arabia as a board member of the International Comparative Program (Statistical Division – UN).
Altekhaifi also served as assistant deputy minister for development at the Ministry of Labor from 2011 to 2016. Before that, he headed the research department of the Capital Market Authority from 2007 to 2011. He supervised and followed up projects at Zhair Fayez Partnership – Consultant and was a statistical adviser for Economic Studies House, where he directed and supervised the study “The nationalization of private education jobs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”