Tue 17 November 2020: The UK has bought 5 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine developed by the US-led biotech firm Moderna, Health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday, with the earliest doses expected for delivery in spring. Early trials showed the vaccine to be 94.5% effective, Moderna said earlier on Monday. Hancock said the […]
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Tue 17 November 2020: Oil markets may take advantage of the prospects of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech to stabilise, Bloomberg reported today. Last week, crude oil prices soared to their highest level in 2020 after Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech announced a breakthrough on a vaccine for COVID-19. According to Bloomberg analysts, such a discovery will ease […]
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Mon 16 November 2020: Moderna said preliminary phase three trial data shows its coronavirus vaccine is more than 94% effective in preventing Covid-19 — a result CEO Stephane Bancel called a “game changer.” The company said its study for a successful vaccine enrolled more than 30,000 participants in the US, and its analysis included 95 participants from diverse […]
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Mon 16 November 2020: The protein, which acts as an ion channel, could be a target for new drugs against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. MIT chemists have determined the molecular structure of a protein found in the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This protein, called the envelope protein E, forms a cation-selective channel and plays a key role in […]
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Mon 16 November 2020: U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who battled a coronavirus infection in intensive care earlier this year, is in self-isolation after having been exposed to the virus again, officials said Sunday. Johnson will self-isolate in Downing Street, where he will continue to work, said a spokesman. “Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been told to self-isolate through the […]
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Sat 14 November 2020: Donald Trump has that “time will tell” if he remains president, in a momentary slip of his unprecedented refusal to concede his election defeat and help Democrat Joe Biden prepare to take power. In his first public address, after being declared the loser of the November 3 election, the US president touted medical […]
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Sat 14 November 2020: Crude oil prices fell from the upward trajectory on Friday with further rises in COVID-19 cases, which fuelled demand fears, hopes for a vaccine kept crude futures on track for a second straight weekly gain. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $43.05 per barrel at 0633 GMT on Friday with […]
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Sat 14 November 2020: Microsoft said on Friday that State-backed hackers from North Korea and Russia have been targeting organisations working on a coronavirus vaccine. Microsoft said that it has witnessed efforts by state-backed Russian and North Korean hacking groups to target and steal valuable data from pharmaceutical companies and coronavirus vaccine researchers. “In recent […]
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Fri 13 November 2020: The Iranian government is set to announce a two-week nationwide lockdown to contain the third wave of the pandemic. According to the Health Ministry officials, the plan will be finalized during a meeting of the National Headquarters for Corona Disease Management on Saturday as the situation has turned catastrophic. Iran’s death […]
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Fri 13 November 2020: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla sold $5.6 million of his stock in the US pharmaceutical company on the same day it announced promising results for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, filings showed Wednesday. The company, however, has reportedly said the sale was part of a pre-arranged periodic divestment plan when the stock reaches […]
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