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Coronavirus pandemic accelerating with Americas worst

Colombia and Mexico also passed bleak milestones, as their death tolls topped 2 000 and 20 000, respectively, showing how the virus continues ravaging the Ameri...

Nursing homes represent more than 1 in 4 COVID-19 deaths

Cuomo proceeded to blame Republicans for fanning the flames of the scandal. "This is made possible by our early and aggressive actions to slow the spread of the...

MMR vaccine might offer protection against worst COVID-19 complications: Scientists

According to CNN , the vaccine uses weakened, or attenuated, versions of the measles, mumps, and rubella viruses to trigger an immune reaction in the body. Cur...

Coronavirus: South Asian persons most very likely to die in clinic

Twenty-seven institutions across the British isles, together with universities and general public overall health bodies, as effectively as 260 hospitals, ended ...

Victoria extends State of Emergency as 19 new cases detected

From Monday, there will be a stricter limit on the number of people allowed to meet up in public or visit another person's home after 25 new cases of COVID-19we...

Covid-19 alert level reduced by chief medical officers

The move would seem to support the government's roadmap for unlocking the economy, which had tentatively set out a 4 July opening date for some areas of hospita...

International Yoga Day 2020

Today the whole world is anxious and gloomy about the Covid- 19 pandemic . There are Yoga practices that boost our immunity and improve metabolism. Interesting...

COVID-19: Two Further Deaths And 13 New Cases

No new cases have been diagnosed in the region today, so the total number of cases remains at 4,866. The Covid-19 death toll here has risen to 1,714 following...

La Crosse County COVID-19 cases go up by 24

There have been a total of 27 resident COVID-19 cases and 10 non-resident cases since the first case was identified in Dare County in March. According to the ...

Webb Simpson seizes RBC Heritage

McIlroy began his second round knowing he needed something in the mid-60s to avoid missing the cut for the first time since The Open last July, and he duly obli...

Delhi govt to augment ICU bed capacity in COVID-19 hospitals Sisodia

Speaking about his recent discussion with Union Home Minister Amit Shah , Kejriwal said, "The discussion with Home Minister Amit Shah was focussed on how we ca...

Novartis stops HCQ trial against COVID-19 citing participant shortfall

Drugmaker Novartis has said it was halting its trial of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) against coronavirus after struggling to find participants after ...

Students in Ontario to return to class in September

Ontario should consider a "phased approach" to school reopenings based on local COVID-19 conditions as well as the ages of children, Thampi wrote. The plan co...

Don't Use Dexamethasone To Prevent COVID-19 - FDA

There is a risk of the shortage of drug Dexamethasone for Coronavirus patients across the country. Dexamethasone is a steroid that has been used since the 196...

Federal inmate one of 5 new COVID-19 deaths

Meanwhile in other states, such as Arizona, Arkansas, and North Carolina, which had fewer total diagnosed cases per capita in the earlier period of the pandemic...

Glenmark Gets Approval For Favipiravir As COVID-19 Treatment

The company has received the manufacturing and marketing approval from Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to launch favipiravir for the treatment of m...

Imperial's RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine to start trials this week

According to a report by the New York Times, five companies including Moderna Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Pfizer Inc may be few of the companies to receive gover...

Blood type, genes tied to risk of severe COVID-19 - European study

The risk for severe COVID-19 was 45 percent higher for people with type A blood than those with other blood types. They also tied blood groups to possible risk....

The Batman: Robert Pattinson’s Workout Regimen Sounds Intense

So why did Pattinson say what he did in that prior GQ interview? Since the announcement that Pattinson will be taking on the role of Bruce Wayne, a few other ...

United States narrows down potential coronavirus vaccine candidates to 7

This is the second COVID-19 vaccine candidate to enter clinical trials in Britain. Dr Swaminathan described the ambition for hundreds of millions of doses thi...

Study shows how quickly coronavirus spreads at home

The study - published June 17 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal - also said that the new coronavirus spreads among household members more easily tha...

Ozark County (Mo.) Health Department reports first case of COVID-19

Today, one new case has been reported in Murphy , four in Princeton and one in Wylie . This is one of the highest positive daily rates reported for Polk - f...

Virus already in Italy by December, waste water study finds

The epidemic has killed more than 34,500 people in Italy , since the first case was recorded in Codogno in Lombardy, the first infection identified outside Chi...

Amit Shah Hosts Key Meeting To Tackle Delhi-NCR's COVID 19 Situation

A total of 2.3 lakh people have been surveyed in Delhi's containment zones to combat COVID-19 in the national capital, spokesperson of Union Home Ministry said ...

Horgan outraged by alleged racist "games" directed at Indigenous people

In a hastily called teleconference call with reporters, Dix said if confirmed the conduct is "unacceptable". Dix said his deputy minister, Stephen Brown, lear...

Covid-19 contact tracing app switched to Apple-Google model

According to Government records published online so far, 11 contracts have been awarded to private firms aiding the app's development totalling £11,297,811. In ...

20 active cases of COVID-19 in RMWB

Alberta's death toll climbed by one as the province released updated COVID-19 statistics on Thursday afternoon. The number of active cases in the province s...

Hundreds of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses could be ready for 2021

World Health Organisation expects almost 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine to be ready by the end of next year. The sales agreement is in late-stage discus...

There May Be No Immunity to COVID-19

According to the World Health Organization, there has been more than 8 million cases of the virus as of June 17 and more than 440,000 deaths. Antibodies are pro...

World Health Organization chief hails news on steroid drug to treat virus

Steven J. "Dexamethasone, a common steroid, has been shown to have a beneficial effect on those patients severely ill with Covid-19", Tedros said. We spoke to ...