The novel coronavirus can survive on some surfaces for days or in the air for several hours, according to a US-government funded study published Tuesday. Scientists found that the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease had similar levels of viability outside the body to its predecessor that caused SARS. This means that other factors like [...]
The members of the opposition coalition walked out of the Seychelles' National Assembly session on Tuesday after no representative from the Ministry of Health came to answer questions on the current status of the coronavirus disease. Vice President Vincent Meriton was to answer questions from Wavel Ramkalawan, Leader of the Opposition coalition -- Linyon [...]
Airlines worldwide face an unprecedented existential threat as the coronavirus shuts down global travel, leaving governments with controversial and costly decisions about which carriers to bail out. A toxic mix of fear, crippling travel bans and investor panic have pummelled the sector, with demand collapsing and carriers cutting flight capacity by up to 90 percent. [...]
A joint Nekton deep sea expedition in the waters of Seychelles and Maldives will start on Tuesday to establish a baseline of marine life and the state of the ocean in both jurisdictions. The 35-day mission will be led by a team of 50 international scientists from Nekton and the University of Oxford. This follows a similar successful mission in 2019. The mission, [...]
Tanzania and Somalia on Monday became the latest East Africa countries to confirm their first cases of coronavirus, as neighbouring countries shuttered borders and schools as fears of contagion rose. As the global pandemic takes root in Africa, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma announced he was donating 20,000 testing kits, 100,000 masks and 1,000 protective suits [...]
Ramping up its response to COVID-19, Seychelles as of Wednesday will ban visitors from Europe, Mayotte and Reunion -- two French overseas departments in the Indian Ocean. The move is in line with a global response increasingly concerned with preventing a massive wave of infections that overwhelm medical facilities "Seychellois who are currently in [...]
The number of people infected with the coronavirus in Spain increased by a third to 7,753 and more than 100 new deaths were recorded over the last 24 hours, health officials said Sunday. The latest spike in Europe's second-most affected country after Italy comes after the Spanish government imposed a near-total nationwide lockdown, banning people [...]
Seychellois athletes who are training overseas are returning home as countries take more severe measures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe, even as the island nation recorded its third case of the virus. The secretary general of the Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association, Alain Alcindor, told SNA on Monday that two [...]
Germany's foreign minister said Monday the rights to coronavirus vaccine research were not for sale, following reports Donald Trump wanted the US to buy exclusive access to a potential vaccine developed by a German biotech firm. The comments, made in an interview to media group Funke, come as scientists raced to develop a vaccine against [...]
What would it be like to pick the brain of an author whose book you have read? A group of students at the International School Seychelles had just that opportunity. While covering 'Skirrid Hill' -- a collection of poems by author Owen Sheers -- in their class syllabus, a group of A-Level literature students had the chance [...]
