Sir Jeremy Farrar: 'I do believe there will be a vaccine' in 2020 and 2021

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Gebran Bassil, Lebanese politician: Hezbollah should disarm

“The state of Lebanon needs to have an exclusivity of arms. And definitely, Hezbollah needs to be disarmed… Disarming a group or a community is not possible by force, it's possible by conviction. You put pressure, but you cannot eliminate a whole society, a whole community. We ne ...  Show more

Dr Tedros, WHO: Viruses are invisible enemy

“There is more spending in defence and less spending in global health or in public health or health security, which makes us vulnerable...Because the invisible enemy could be more impactful. Imagine, have you ever seen a war in recent memory that killed 20 million people? Why can ...  Show more

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