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Cat tests positive for coronavirus in England

A pet cat has become the first to test positive for coronavirus after catching it from its owners. 'Follow-up samples tested at the APHA laboratory in Weybrid...

World Health Organization announces landmark achievement in elimination of hepatitis B

Addressing a press briefing to commence the activities line up to mark the World Hepatitis Day 2020 in Abuja on Monday, Dr Omotosho, said Hepatitis is a sil...

Possible COVID-19 exposure at Saskatoon law firm

Nine people are receiving inpatient care, while four people are in intensive care. There are 183 cases involving people aged 19 and under. Of the total amou...

Coronavirus: US raises funding for Moderna vaccine to almost $1bn

Of the total vaccine candidates, 140 are at the pre-clinical stage , while 19 have entered phase 1. The final USA study of the Oxford shot is set to begin in...

Moderna Gets Another $472M Federal Funding For Late-Stage Coronavirus Vaccine Development

The primary goal of the Phase III study is to prevent symptomatic COVID-19, with secondary goals including preventing severe COVID-19 (patients who need to be h...

West Nile Virus found in Windsor-Essex, health unit reports

According to Peterborough Public Health, mosquitoes trapped from July 20 to 23 tested positive for the virus - the first positive pool found in the city this ye...

Records 2 more COVID-19 deaths over the weekend

The next highest was in Philadelphia County (166), followed by DE (86), Montgomery (63) and Chester (52). One new death was recorded Sunday, and an additional...

Confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Waterford revealed

The issue has been resolved and the back-logged referrals have been processed. The HPSC had been notified of 12 confirmed cases of Covid-19, bringing the tota...

Final test begins for COVID-19 vaccine

Researchers across the world are racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Moderna announced on Monday that it has started dosing participants in the phase...

Moderna gets another $472m in USA gov't aid for vaccine trials

With its collaborators, Moderna has selected almost 100 clinical research sites with representative demography and is partnering closely with those sites to e...

Vietnam reports 11 new virus cases in possible 2nd wave

A further three locally transmitted cases were recorded on Sunday, all in or around Danang. The evacuations of mostly local tourists will take at least four d...

Moderna's COVID Vaccine Could Be Ready For Use By Year End

Interest in the trials is surging in the pandemic, but researchers said it would be essential for volunteers to include those who are most at risk of severe con...

Cases in India surge to 14,35,453 as death toll reaches 32,771

Delhi recorded 1,025 fresh cases on Friday, taking the total number of cases in the city to over 1.28 lakh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched hi...

United Kingdom sees first coronavirus cat infection after being infected by its owner

Experts say the cat was likely infected by its owners, who had tested positive for the coronavirus, in what is believed to be a rare case of human-to-animal tra...

Moderna US funding nears $1 billion as vaccine study starts

Just around two months after work was begun on the Moderna vaccine, it was already begin tested in humans for the first time, and early data from its Phase 1 te...

United Kingdom considers making calorie labelling on alcohol mandatory

The Department of Health said a consultation would follow before the end of the year to help decide whether the same type of calorie labelling on alcohol should...

Ontario reports 119 new COVID-19 cases, 40 cases in Windsor

There are now 1,558 active cases across the province, including 87 in hospital, 29 in intensive care and 21 on ventilators. Seven outbreaks continue at city i...

U.S. health agency urges children return to school

Oregon, which ordered covering its face both indoors and outdoors, recorded nine new deaths from Covid-19 on Friday, its highest number since the outbreak began...

USA exceeds 4 million coronavirus cases - Johns Hopkins

There are now more than 15.3 million confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide, including at least 625,000 deaths, according to the latest data from Johns H...

NJ party leads to coronavirus cluster, parents won't cooperate

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said people won't get in trouble for cooperating with contact tracers and other health officials. State officials say the te...

Majority of Canada's new virus cases are young adults

Tam delivered that pre-weekend warning - one week after her deputy Dr. Howard Njoo did the same - because of the worrying trend of rising infections among peopl...

Florida records 9300 new coronavirus cases, blows past New York

New York, once the epicenter of the outbreak in the USA, managed to bring the number of deaths and hospitalizations under control in late spring, as cases beg...

316 new COVID-19 cases in Kentucky

This included suggestions of possibly closing bars and reducing the capacity of restaurants, which Beshear has hinted at in press conferences over the past week...

United Kingdom announces ‘most comprehensive flu program in history,’ aims to vaccinate 30mn

It comes as general practice was last week omitted in plans for £3bn in extra funding to help the NHS "get ready for winter" during the Covid-19 pandemic. Las...

Ontario confirms 195 new cases of COVID-19, 3 more deaths

While updating the hospitalization counts in Ontario on Sunday, health officials said approximately 30 hospitals did not submit data on Friday. The new cases ...

No deaths, 12 new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland

They said about 61% of people are marked as "recovered" from the virus. 26 additional people have been hospitalized, for a total of 4,394 people having ever b...

LA County Reports 53 New Deaths and 3628 More COVID-19 Cases

The L.A. Department of Public Health stated that part of the high number of cases are due to an inclusion of backlogged system results. The county's infection...

Frustration as St Basil's aged care coronavirus outbreak grows

On Friday St Basil's Homes for the Aged in Fawkner mourned the death of five elderly residents who contracted COVID-19. Now 48 of the 150 residents in the fac...

Wisconsin reports 1,018 new cases of coronavirus Friday

DHS' daily tracker shows 17,456 tests were recorded on Friday, the most ever, and almost three-quarters of the testing capacity in the state. Despite the high...

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...