Sat 01 August 2020: Vaccination to be free of charge, doctors and teachers would be first to be vaccinated, says health minister MOSCOW (AA) – Russia is preparing to start a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus from October, the country’s health minister said on Saturday. The vaccination will be free of charge, and […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: A study from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago discovered that children younger than 5 years with mild to moderate COVID-19 have much higher levels of genetic material for the virus in the nose compared to older children and adults. Findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics, point to the possibility […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: Trudeau says ‘innovative’ app can help prevent future outbreaks TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada launched a smartphone app Friday that will alert people when they come near someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the app, called COVID Alert, as an “innovative” move that marks a […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: WHO chief calls for systematic serologic testing, which reveals what proportion of population could be immune GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization noted Friday that the world must learn to live with the coronavirus and fight it with the tools it has, despite efforts to develop a vaccine going on […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: Country’s Health Minister says only 1 in 3 among all positive cases under medical supervision as active cases continue fall NEW DELHI (AA) – India on Saturday recorded over 57,000 more cases of the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, raising the overall infection tally to nearly 1.7 million. According to the Health Ministry, the total number of COVID-19 […]
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Fri 31 July 2020: The global coronavirus outbreak is the sort of disaster whose effects will last far into the future, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “The pandemic is a once-in-a-century health crisis, the effects of which will be felt for decades to come,” Tedros told a meeting of the WHO’s […]
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Fri 31 July 2020: The first of thousands of South African-designed ventilators rolled off a Cape Town assembly line on Friday. South Africa has completed the first batch of ventilators which would be used to fight the COVID- 19, said the country’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Ebrahim Patel during a COVID-19 conference on […]
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Fri 31 July 2020: Spain sees biggest plunge with GDP shrinking 18.5%, erasing years of economic growth The eurozone economy shrunk by a historic 12.1% between April 1 and June 30, according to a preliminary flash published by the EU statistics service on Friday. According to Eurostat, these were “by far the sharpest declines observed” […]
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Fri 31 July 2020: Country records 28 new deaths in last 24 hours, down from 64 late last month, says government figures Bangladesh recorded the month’s lowest daily new deaths from COVID-19 on Friday with 28 casualties, bringing the total tally to 3,111, according to the Health Ministry. “Since July 1 this is the lowest […]
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Fri 31 July 2020: Science and technology minister in President Jair Bolsonaro’s government also diagnosed with disease BOGOTA, Colombia – Brazil’s first lady Michelle Bolsonaro tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, President Jair Bolsonaro’s press office announced in a statement. “First lady Michelle Bolsonaro tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. She is in good health […]
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