Cape Town, South Africa | Mon, August 31, 2020 | 11:13 pm Lisa Krohn’s Ashanti Lodge in Cape Town is now completely vacant, an indication of how the pandemic has destroyed the tourism industry in South Africa. “This place is like a morgue,” she said, considering the empty foyer of the Victorian-era house. South Africa is […]
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Geneva, Switzerland | Tue, August 25, 2020 | 08:12 pm The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread but the increase in cases and deaths has slowed worldwide, with the exception of Southeast Asia and the eastern Mediterranean areas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. In its latest epidemiological update, released on Monday night, it said the
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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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