Wed 25 November 2020: Brazil registered 31,100 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours and 630 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The South American nation has now registered 6,118,708 cases since the pandemic began and the official death toll has risen to 170,115, according to ministry […]
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Wed 25 November 2020: Developers of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine said on Tuesday, that Sputnik V is 95 percent effective according to a second interim analysis of clinical trial data, The calculations were based on preliminary data obtained 42 days after the first dose, Russia’s health ministry, the state-run Gamaleya research centre and the Russian […]
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Tue 24 November 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to cause nearly $160 billion losses in the aviation sector during 2020 and 2021, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said. The association’s expectation is $118.5 billion losses this year and $38.7 billion in 2021, according to a press release issued Tuesday. “Deep industry losses will […]
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Tue 24 November 2020: King Felipe VI to stay in quarantine until Dec. 2 ‘in conformity with health rules’ Spain’s King Felipe VI started ten days of quarantine after he came into contact with a person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the palace announced in a statement. The statement said the king, 52, […]
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Tue 24 November 2020: UCLA engineers and scientists have demonstrated that treatments with near-room-temperature, cold atmospheric plasma can kill the coronavirus present on a variety of surfaces in as little as 30 seconds. A study detailing the research, which was published this month in the journal Physics of Fluids, is the first time cold plasma has […]
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Mon 23 November 2020: WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus gave an upbeat assessment on vaccine development after recent data showed that more COVID-19 cases had been reported in a recent 4 weeks than in first 6 months of the pandemic. He was speaking at a twice-weekly press webinar in Geneva on the novel coronavirus. At the […]
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Mon 23 November 2020: Saudi Arabia’s health ministry said on Monday that COVID-19 vaccines will be free for all people living in the kingdom, state TV reported. The ministry said it hopes to have enough vaccines to cover 70% of the country’s population by the end of 2021, state TV channel Ekhbariya said on Twitter. […]
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Mon 23 November 2020: A coronavirus vaccine developed in the UK can prevent 70.4% of people from getting Covid-19 and up to 90% if a lower dose is used, according to data. Oxford University and AstraZeneca have announced their jab is effective in preventing many people getting ill and it has been shown to work […]
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Mon 23 November 2020: G20 leaders meeting remotely pledged on Sunday to “spare no effort” to ensure the fair distribution of coronavirus vaccines worldwide, but offered no specific new funding to meet that goal. After a virtual summit hosted by Saudi Arabia, the G20 leaders said in the final communique: “We have mobilised resources to […]
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Sun 22 November 2020: World Health Organization (WHO) special coronavirus envoy David Nabarro predicted a third wave of the pandemic to hit Europe in early 2021 if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was necessary to prevent the second wave, according to Reuters. In an interview with Swiss newspapers, Nabarro said: […]
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