Fri 15 May 2020: (Reuters) Any vaccine to fight the new coronavirus will not be ready for use for at least two years, the chief executive of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, which no longer makes vaccines itself, told a German newspaper. Novartis sold its vaccine business in 2015 to GlaxoSmithKline, one of many companies around […]
Continue Reading
Fri 15 May 2020: (Reuters) India has lost two weeks in its bid to get a picture of the spread of the coronavirus in its population because of poor Chinese testing kits, a member of a national task force said, complicating a decision on opening up from a lockdown. The kits were for antibodies to […]
Continue Reading
Fri 15 May 2020: The United Kingdom is in talks with Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG to buy an accurate COVID-19 antibody test, following the lead of the European Union and the United States, which have already given preliminary approval to the tests. Mass antibody testing with millions of kits is being considered by many […]
Continue Reading
Fri 15 May 2020: Turkey has sent medical aid to 80 countries to fight the novel coronavirus, the country’s vice president said Thursday. “We have had the opportunity to help 80 countries that have asked us for help so far,” Fuat Oktay said in an interview with online channel Yozgat Camlik TV. The main […]
Continue Reading
Fri 15 May 2020: The new coronavirus could kill 150,000 people in Africa in a year unless urgent action is taken, according to a WHO modelling study that says nearly a quarter of a billion people will be infected. Authors of the research, published Friday in the journal BMJ Global Health, predicted a lower infection […]
Continue Reading
Fri 15 May 2020: The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than a million Rohingya refugees, according to officials. An ethnic Rohingya refugee and a local person tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a United Nations spokeswoman said on Thursday. […]
Continue Reading
Fri 15 May 2020: Nearly one million self-employed workers in Britain applied for a government aid programme that will give them a grant of up to 7,500 pounds ($9,168.75) at the end of second day of the scheme’s operation, The Sun reported late on Thursday. More than 500,000 Britons applied for the government’s new income […]
Continue Reading
Fri 15 May 2020: (Reuters) – People attending Masses in St. Peter’s and other papal basilicas in Rome will have their temperature checked as part of measures to contain the spread of coronavirus, the Vatican said on Thursday. It did not say when the new measures will take effect. Public Masses will resume in churches […]
Continue Reading
Fri 15 May 2020: (Reuters) – Israel’s children can go back to school and nurseries full-time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, as the country presses on with easing its coronavirus curbs. Israel – population nine million – has reported 16,579 cases of the novel coronavirus and 265 deaths. With the new case rate […]
Continue Reading
Thu 14 May 2020: The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than 1 million Rohingya refugees, officials said on Thursday. An ethnic Rohingya refugee and another person had tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a United Nations spokesperson said. It […]
Continue Reading
