Who said pandemics are that bad?... They come with benefits
Coronavirus is bringing the face masks. With the air pollution in Kampala, the face masks are going to be a godsend, to those who will use them. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA
The world’s second deadliest Ebola epidemic is set to be declared officially over on the Easter weekend. This will follow the discharge of the last Ebola patient in the Congolese town of Beni at the beginning of this month, which started off the 42-day countdown to the end of Christian 2020 Lenten.
However, the Beni discharge coincided with two scary events of great significance to the world of health. First of course was the coronavirus as cases approached 100,000 cases worldwide. The second was the release of a scientific report in the Cardiovascular Research journal that the air pollution pandemic is cutting three years off human lives worldwide.
