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Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trials in India: Serum Institute seeks DCGI nod

In continuation of the series, in this third part, we will discuss the remaining vaccine candidates who are under preclinical studies with different technologie...

United States exceeds 4 million coronavirus cases - Johns Hopkins

On Thursday the United States of America surpassed 4 million infections, its totally doubling the cases count in a little more than a month. Florida passed ...

COVID-19: Ontario reported 195 new cases, Ottawa 57

The overall total confirmed cases for Windsor-Essex is now 2,180 with 1,433 of those now listed as resolved. The region also now has the highest infection rat...

Montana adds 224 COVID-19 cases (Saturday, July 25)

Another COVID-19 death was also recorded which brings that total to 19 in Marshall County. There were 76 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and of 429 ventil...

No new COVID-19 cases today

Meanwhile, Ontario recorded a dip in the number of new COVID-19 cases on Saturday compared to the almost 200 infections logged the day prior. Recoveries remai...

Health Minister reports 26 new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa Sunday

Of the 87 people in Ontario hospitals Sunday morning, 29 are in intensive care units and 21 people are on ventilators. The hospitalization data for Sunday was...

Independent review into Nova Scotia shooting undertaken by provincial, federal governments

The shooting, where a gunman posing as a police officer went on a rampage for 13 hours on 18-19 April, is the deadliest in Canada's modern history. Following ...

'Come on, you're better than that,' says premier

There are now at least 78 cases of the virus linked to people partying in Kelowna around Canada Day, and that includes seven staff members at the Kelowna Genera...

NSW authorities find coronavirus at second Sydney Thai Rock restaurant

NSW Health has cautioned people who attended the services to get tested, and remain in isolation for 14 days, even if they aren't showing any symptoms. Four rem...

Move-in procedures muddled in light of MA quarantine order

The big picture: States including NY are limiting travel from neighboring hot spots to prevent further spread of the coronavirus. Beginning on August 1, high...

Hospital Must Turn Away Sickest COVID Patients

A rural Texas county says it will now be sending the sickest COVID-19 patients home to die as it struggles to contain the outbreak. "It was decided that to ...

U.S. records 1,000 coronavirus deaths for fourth day, some progress seen

A total of 18 states surpassed their own records for new daily infections this week, as the USA looks set to break its national record of 75,697 new cases in a ...

COVID cases in Minnesota pass the 50,000 mark

The state's daily death total has been in the single digits since July 2nd. The statewide totals are now 49,488 and 1,566 respectively. Minnesota has 278 pa...

Pelosi says Republicans in ‘disarray’ over COVID rescue bill

President Donald Trump Thursday reluctantly dropped his bid to cut Social Security payroll taxes as Republicans stumbled anew in efforts to unite around a $1 tr...

4 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Manitoba

It has now been 86 days since the last case of COVID-19 was acquired locally from an unknown source. Several of those cases have been attributed to outbreaks at...

Latest Pharmacy News: Obesity increases risks of death from Covid-19

And the risk grew substantially as weight increased. The analysis also demonstrates that being overweight improves the chance of dying from Covid-19 by 40 for...

Vietnam back on coronavirus alert after first local infection in three months

The authorities did not say how the person contracted the virus but reported he experienced not remaining Danang for just about a thirty day period. With trav...

Trump announces new executive orders to lower drug prices, slash healthcare costs

The orders, which are subject to regulatory review, are meant to bring US drug prices down to at least be on par with what their costs are overseas. Trump r...

Airborne transmission of coronavirus possible, says new study

The research showed LEAPS COVID-19 conjugates induced faster and much higher than expected antibody responses against a nonmutating region of the SARS-CoV-2 vir...

Nelson County Public Schools reveals plans for coming school year

The students were told to self-quarantine with their families, The Detroit News reported Friday. D11 students in K-8 will have the option of in-person classes...

Province records 27 new COVID cases, virus present in 21 Hutterite communities

Phase 4.2 began on June 29 and has evolved over numerous additions to involve guidelines for indoor rinks, pools, bingo halls and garage sales, which were restr...

Montreal's Duvernay-Tardif opts out of 2020 National Football League season

Given the worldwide sanitary crisis we are now experiencing, the National Football League and the NFLPA have agreed to significant health and safety protocols t...

S. Korea reports 113 more COVID-19 cases, 14,092 in total

A total of 293 South Korean construction workers arrived here from Iraq on Friday, and 36 of them tested positive for the virus. The figures released by So...

Alberta surpasses 10000 COVID-19 cases; no new cases around Lloydminster

One of the two new deaths is connected to the Good Samaritan Southgate Care Centre, where there have been a total of nine deaths. The other death was a woman in...

U.S. Senate Armed Services chairman will not change military bases' names

We have an agreement in principle on the shape of this package. With a payroll tax cut , people would "get that money over time", Mnuchin added. It now g...

CDC releases guidelines for schools to reopen

It also said it doesn't recommend schools screen children for symptoms, saying that such measures won't detect each individual who has Covid-19 and may mistake...

Mnuchin says coronavirus relief bill will not include payroll tax cut

Senate Republicans' upcoming coronavirus relief proposal will not include a payroll tax cut , Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters Thursday. The ...

Lancet study shows mothers unlikely to pass Covid-19 to newborns

The study, involving 120 babies born to mothers with COVID-19 infection, found no cases of transmission of the virus during childbirth or after two weeks of bre...

Mitch McConnell announces coronavirus relief deal with Trump

Republicans and Democrats are headed into a furious round of negotiations to get another stimulus passed as the economy continues to reel from a still raging c...

USA Today Slaps Fact-Check Editor's Note on Navarro Op-ed

The most egregious and serious attack on Dr. Fauci was launched by Peter Navarro , the Assistant to the President and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Polic...