Fri 22 May 2020: (Reuters) Some 80 million children worldwide could be at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio due to disruption of routine immunization during the COVID-19 pandemic, UN agencies and the GAVI vaccine alliance said on Friday. Data shows that “provision of routine immunization services is substantially hindered in at […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: Malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which US President Donald Trump says he has been taking, is tied to increased risk of death in COVID-19 patients, according to a study published in medical journal The Lancet on Friday. The study, which observed more than 96,000 people hospitalised with COVID-19, showed that people treated with the drug, […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: (REUTERS) Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be home quarantined for 14 days after an officer who attended a meeting with him this week tested positive for the new coronavirus, the prime minister’s office said in a statement on Friday. Muhyiddin has tested negative but “all members of the meeting have […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: Human trials continue as country’s death toll climbs to 36,393 Oxford University announced that its COVID-19 vaccine has entered its next phases of human trials, according to a statement on Friday, as British health authorities announced that 351 more people died from the disease across the UK over the past 24 […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: President Andry Rajoelina says Madagascar will sign a confidentiality clause with the World Health Organization on the formulation of COVID-Organics, the purported cure for the coronavirus pandemic. He disclosed this after a teleconference with WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghabreyesus on Wednesday. He also said the WHO had agreed to support the country’s clinical observation process. “Successful […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov was hospitalized with suspected COVID-19 infection in Moscow Thursday, Russian news agencies reported. “Ramzan Kadyrov was taken to Moscow by plane with a suspected case of coronavirus. Now (he) is under medical supervision,” state news agency TASS reported, citing a medical source. News agency RIA Novosti also […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: (AP) The United Nations secretary-general is again urging all parties to conflicts to respond to his call for a global cease-fire to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, pointing to the more than 20,000 civilians killed or injured in attacks in 10 countries last year and millions more forced from their homes. Antonio […]
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Fri 22 May 2020: A senior Olympics official has warned that holding the postponed Tokyo Games next year faces “real problems”, with even a vaccine unlikely to stave off the threat of the coronavirus. John Coates, the International Olympic Committee’s pointman for Tokyo 2020, indicated that officials would start deciding in October if and how […]
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Thu 21 May 2020: The global tally of coronavirus infections surpassed 5 million Thursday, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university’s data showed worldwide deaths reached 328,172 while the number of people who recovered stands at 1,899,350. The US is the hardest-hit country by the pandemic with over 1.5 million […]
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Thu 21 May 2020: The number of those infected with coronavirus in Africa has reached 95,201, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has reported. According to the latest data, the death toll in the continent tallied at 2,997 while 38,075 people have recovered. South Africa recorded 18,000 coronavirus cases, the highest number in […]
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