Berlin, Germany | Wed, August 19, 2020 | 08:13 pm The head of Germany’s vaccines regulator said some groups of people living in Germany could be vaccinated early next year against the coronavirus that has killed hundreds of thousands and wreaked havoc on the global economy. More than half a dozen drugmakers […]
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Taipei | Mon, August 10, 2020 | 08:15 pm US Health Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday that any US vaccine or treatment for COVID-19 would be shared fairly with the rest of the world, once the US need has been satisfied. There are more than 200 COVID-19 vaccine candidates in development around the world,
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Beirut, Lebanon | Wed, August 5, 2020 | 07:42 pm Lebanese rescue workers dug through rubble on Wednesday looking for survivors after a massive warehouse explosion sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 100 people and injuring nearly 4,000. Officials said the toll was expected to rise after the
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Thu, July 30, 2020 | 07:15 pm AstraZeneca says COVID-19 vaccine may very well be permitted by the top of this year Britain’s AstraZeneca stated on Thursday that good knowledge was coming in to this point on its vaccine for COVID-19, already in large-scale human trials and extensively seen because the front-runner within
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Islamabad, Pakistan | Mon, July 20, 2020 | 08:53 pm Pakistan resumed its polio vaccination campaign Monday after a four-month pause due to the coronavirus outbreak, which health authorities feared would cause a surge in cases of the crippling disease. The country is one of only two in the world where
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Singapore | Sat, July 11, 2020 | 17:27 pm Singapore’s long-ruling party retained power Saturday but its support fell sharply, while the opposition made gains, in a general election held under the shadow of a coronavirus outbreak. Voters put on masks and gloves and had to observe social distancing rules during
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Melbourne, Australia | Tue, July 7, 2020 | 06:13 pm Nearly five million Melbourne residents will be put under another lockdown after coronavirus cases surged in Australia’s second-largest city. From midnight on Wednesday, residents will be confined to their homes for six weeks – unless undertaking essential business such as travelling to
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S.Korea says to begin talks to purchase COVID-19 drug remdesivir in August Seoul, South Korea | Wed, July 1, 2020 | 05:45 pm South Korea has started distributing stocks of the COVID-19 treatment remdesivir which have been donated by Gilead Sciences Inc and plans to begin talks to purchase more
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Jakarta | Sat, June 27, 2020 | 11:32 am We, the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN Member States and the Russian Federation, held the Special ASEAN-Russia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on COVID-19via video conference on 17June2020to discuss ASEAN-Russia cooperation in countering COVID-19 and other areas of mutual concern in this challenging time,Expressing our
Beijing coronavirus testing to enter ‘fast track’ as cases mount Beijing, China | Tue, June 23, 2020 | 07:13 pm Beijing’s mass testing for the new coronavirus will soon enter a “fast track” as the city’s testing capacity expands, a senior municipal health official said on Tuesday, following a sudden
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