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Microsoft announces $1 billion investment plan in Poland

The project is being touted as the "Polish Digital Valley", with the partnership agreement aimed at supporting public institutions and businesses in the country...

First Covid-19 case in France 'was in December'

Cohen said that the wife of the patient, who had never been to China, worked at a sushi stand in a supermarket with Chinese colleagues. Speaking to BFMTV in...

California cities threaten legal action against Newsom's newest beach-closure order

He said the controversial hard close on beaches like Laguna, Newport and Huntington was necessary to prevent another weekend rush and in the interest of public ...

United Kingdom says accomplished target of 100000 coronavirus tests a day

Speaking at the Downing Street press conference, Mr Hancock justified his decision to set the 100,000 daily total, a commitment that reportedly angered some Gov...

19 death toll rises above 32,000, highest in Europe

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS ) 29,648 deaths linked to coronavirus had taken place in England and Wales as of 24 April. The agency ...

United Kingdom coronavirus death toll rises above 32,000 to highest in Europe

While different ways of counting make comparisons with other countries hard, the figure confirmed Britain was among those hit worst by a pandemic that has kille...

COVID-19 deaths in Northern Ireland rise to more than 400

There are now 26 intensive care beds being occupied by people infected with Covid-19. It comes after new figures suggested the United Kingdom coronavirus de...

Pfizer to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine in Kalamazoo

Pfizer teamed up with German drugmaker BioNTech and began the trial last week in Germany. The initial manufacturing of the vaccine will happen in three of ...

Gold's Gym files for bankruptcy due to coronavirus closures

CNN reports J. Crew filed for bankruptcy on Monday, and that JCPenney and Neiman Marcus might be forced to follow suit. A number of gym chains were struggling ...

15 kids hospitalized in NYC with rare disease possibly linked to coronavirus

Hospitals in NY are beginning to see a drop in news coronavirus cases as NY continues to be one of the global centers of the COVID-19 outbreak. "Even though...

Alberta officials share COVID-19 update for May 4

Of the total cases, 2,942 have recovered. As of Monday, there are 621 confirmed cases in continuing care facilities. Of the 936 cases at Cargill, 810 have rec...

Three Russian healthcare workers die from window falls after coronavirus complaints

Two medical workers are dead and one has been hospitalised after falling from hospital windows in the span of two weeks under unknown circumstances, The Mosco...

Priyanka Chopra Jonas finds a great way to exercise at home

Two weeks ago, some of the world's best stars helped raise almost $ 128 million for the World Health Organization and other coronavirus response efforts by perf...

Only one Nightingale hospital in use as London centre is mothballed

A UHB spokesman confirmed no patients had been admitted to the hospital, which has 500 fully-equipped beds and its operation had been halted. The hospitals we...

Israeli Biological Institute Develops Coronavirus Antibody, Defence Minister Says

The statement said the antibody's development had been completed. IIBR is now working to patent its antibody and secure a contract for its commercial develo...

UN calls for global effort to develop affordable vaccines

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday (May 1) welcomed the news that there are no more hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China, praising its peop...

Gold's Gym files for bankruptcy due to coronavirus pandemic

The bankruptcy announcement comes after a previous statement revealing that 30 Gold's Gym locations around the world had been permanently closed . He also mo...

Antibody-related Breakthrough is Hope Against Covid-19

Compared to healthy controls, both newly discharged and follow-up patients showed higher levels of IgM and IgG antibodies that bind to the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocaps...

CDC report predicts 3000 virus deaths in U.S. per day by June

The projections, on two slides of a 19-slide deck, are dated May 1 and attributed to a "data and analytics task force". The President was also briefed by Heal...

FDA approves coronavirus antibody test that boasts near-perfect accuracy

The rush to obtain, advertise and find buyers for test kits follows the FDA's decision to allow any company to sell antibody tests in the country without prior ...

A micro-organism which prevents Malaria is discovered

We use cookies to give you the best online experience. However, when mosquitoes were maintained under conditions representing more realistic temperature variati...

Israel's Biological Institute completes development phase of COVID-19 antibody

As per reports, the antibody was developed at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR). The statement added that Bennett visited the IIBR on Monday...

Doctors in Russia Are Falling Out of Windows After Complaining About Coronavirus

Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . Colleagues of Aleksandr Shulepov and representatives of the regional coronavirus task force said over the...

French hospital discovers it treated coronavirus patient in December

The discovery was made after the hospital retested samples from 24 patients treated with the flu in December 2019 and January 2020. France , which has seen n...

3,972 confirmed cases, 238 deaths

To that end, Northampton County, independently from the state health department, is opening a drive-up test site at Easton Hospital for county residents sta...

Coronavirus: Scientists hail 'groundbreaking' discovery of antibody which prevents infection

It could lead to a therapy that would be given to somebody immediately after they become infected or exposed. The antibodies did bind itself, but it did so "w...

Council and healthcare workers first to try NHS app that tracks coronavirus

The new app will be published on Apple and Google's app stores. Instead, the anonymous user data will be encrypted and stored by the health authority in keeping...

Nursing home in France wins battle against coronavirus

Some COVID-19 patients with extraordinarily low blood-oxygen levels have been able to chat to doctors, scroll on their phones and have generally described thems...

Zero new COVID-19 cases reported in AHS North zone

The updated list of symptoms includes new cough, worsening of chronic coughs or shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, painful swallowing, headaches, new fa...

Canada joins worldwide vaccine search

Prime Minister Trudeau announced that Canada and worldwide partners have launched the " Coronavirus Global Response" dedicated to raise more than $8 billion t...