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Coronavirus Vaccines and Treatments Move Toward Human Trials
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads at unprecedented rates, invading the lungs of people of all ages, ethnicities and medical histories,…
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Oxfam warns: Coronavirus could push half a billion people into poverty
Oxfam has warned that more than half a billion more people could be pushed into poverty unless urgent action is…
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Alarm grows in Africa as continent records its 10,000th case of COVID-19
Significant efforts are being made by African governments to respond to this growing pandemic, however the number of cases in…
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Wuhan Residents coming back to life after lockdown: ‘We were trapped for too long’
Wuhan Residents, the original epicenter of the coronavirus, are breathing a sigh of relief as a mandatory lockdown is over…
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WHO responds to Trump’s threat to cut Funding: ‘Please don’t politicise this virus’
Director general of the WHO Tedros Adhanom made the call this afternoon after being asked about US President Donald Trump’s threat…
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ILO: COVID-19 to trigger roughly 195 million job losses
ILO said Tuesday: COVID-19 crisis is expected to wipe out 6.7% of working hours globally in the second quarter of…
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Israel among the first countries to receive an experimental Japanese drug to treat coronavirus
Tests in China have found that the medication, “Avigan,” produced by Japanese company Fujifilm Holding Corp., was useful in treating…
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Trump announce to freeze on funding for World Health Organization”WHO”, then reverses
“We‘re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We’re going to put a very powerful hold…
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China reports no new coronavirus deaths for first time since January: National Health Commission said
Cases in mainland China have been dwindling since March, but the country faces a second wave of infections brought in from overseas,…
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U.N. patent agency said: China is the biggest source of applications for international patents in the world
The World Intellectual Property Organization, which oversees a system for countries to share recognition of patents, said 58,990 applications were…
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