Thu 30 April 2020: Twitter will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID-19, which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinformation, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Twitter said that this access […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: COVID-19 is expected to cause global energy emissions to fall a record eight percent this year due to an unprecedented drop in demand for coal, oil and gas, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. IEA executive director Fatih Birol said the coronavirus crisis marked a watershed moment for the global energy […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: COVID-19 patients who took the antiviral remdesivir recovered about 30 percent faster than those on a placebo, the results of a major clinical trial showed Wednesday, as the top US epidemiologist hailed the drug’s “clear-cut” benefit. The finding represents the first time any medication has been shown to improve outcomes against […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: Apple and Google would release two early versions this week of their proposed technology to slow coronavirus spread to select developers for testing purposes, the companies said on Wednesday. According to a report form The Verge, after a test phase started this week the companies are set to release a first version […]
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Wed 29 April 2020: (Reuters) – A top World Health Organization official declined comment on Wednesday on reports that Gilead Science’s remdesivir could help treat COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, but said that further data was needed. “I wouldn’t like to make any specific comment on that, because I haven’t read […]
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Wed 29 April 2020: Gold loves a crisis, the old adage goes. And with prices up 13% this year to their highest since 2012 and many predicting further gains as investors search for safe places to put their money, it looks true for the coronavirus crisis so far. But, as individuals and countries alike see […]
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Wed 29 April 2020: (REUTERS) Some 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, representing nearly half of the global labour force, are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday. The U.N. agency’s latest report sharply raised its forecast for the devastating impact […]
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Wed 29 April 2020: Continent has reported 33,566 cases and 1,469 deaths so far, according to Africa CDC The death toll from the novel coronavirus rose in several African countries Tuesday as the continent continued to grapple with the pandemic. The number of fatalities in Algeria rose to 437, with Egypt’s rising to 359, South […]
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Wed 29 April 2020: Country also provides largest amount of humanitarian aid in the world, says Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu Turkey is the third biggest supplier of medical aid worldwide amid the coronavirus outbreak, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday. The country also provides the largest amount of humanitarian aid in the world, he said. […]
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Wed 29 April 2020: Excitement over partial easing of the lockdowns affecting more than half of humanity has been tempered by fear of new outbreaks and growing evidence of the economic devastation wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic. The US — where millions of jobs have gone — reached another grim milestone as it registered 58,351 […]
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