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Ohio University announces students will start fall semester remotely

These students, however, will not have access to campus facilities except for the Health Center. The University of Ghana has held its maiden virtual congregat...

Pharma giant Sanofi charged with manslaughter in birth defects case

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First Probable Human Case of West Nile Virus Reported in Austin, Texas

During this period, our Rodent and Vector Control Program monitors the mosquito population and tests for mosquito-borne viruses. A robin collected in unincorp...

"Major incident" declared in British city of Manchester to tackle COVID-19

The city council did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment from Reuters. Greater Manchester is one the areas subject to new lockdown measu...

USA unlikely to use coronavirus vaccine from China, Russia

More than 14,100 people in the country have died from the respiratory disease . In the past, vaccines have generally taken around 10-15 years to go from the ba...

Last orders: Pubs could be forced to close from September, warns advisor

Dr Konstantin Blyuss, a reader in mathematics at the University of Sussex, said: "Since this infection is mostly spread through direct human contact, it looks u...

The US Government Pledges $2.1 Billion to Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline's Vaccine Candidate

A group of scientists, led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, discovered a new vaccine, developed from a common cold virus called adenovirus se...

Cuomo: ‘Initial decision’ on NY schools reopening coming this week

Most did, Cuomo said, adding that about 650 to 700 districts have complied so far. The Parma City School District has made a decision to follow the Cuyahoga ...

W.H.O. Warns of ‘Lengthy’ Coronavirus Pandemic as Cases Rise

The panel gathered Friday for the fourth time over the coronavirus crisis, half a year on from its January 30 declaration of a public health emergency of worl...

UK to roll out millions of rapid COVID tests after criticism

Working with DHSC, and with the authorisation of the MHRA, DnaNudge validated its adapted technology in April and began an initial deployment of the COVID Nudg...

COVID-19 cases spike in Manitoba on Sunday

Online case data on the number of tests performed and the number of people hospitalized will be updated Tuesday, following the long weekend, the province said. ...

Mass COVID-19 vaccination in Russian Federation planned for October - Health minister

There's hope an experimental vaccine can do what mask-wearing and social distancing haven't-stop coronavirus . The good news, though, is that a frantic - and...

Human trial for Covid-19 vaccine initiated by Johnson & Johnson

The U.S. government has extended almost half a billion dollars to J&J for its vaccine effort. Stoffels further stated that the initial tests of this kind vacc...

Coronavirus: Major incident declared in Greater Manchester

What does the major incident in Greater Manchester mean? Out of the top 20 worst affected local authority areas for Covid-19 infections in England, Greater...

Vietnam reports second COVID-19 death

The new patients, aged between 27 and 87, are linked to three hospitals and two clinics in Danang, a tourism hot spot where Vietnam last week detected its first...

Covid-19: Maharashtra adds 10,320 new cases; deaths near 15,000

The recovery rate in the state is now 60.68 per cent, while the case fatality rate is 3.55 per cent, the statement said. Out of the 265 deaths, 128 were in the ...

Siemens Healthineers to buy US cancer care firm Varian

Under the agreed transaction, Healthineers will acquire all shares in Varian for $177.50 each in cash, representing a 24% premium to the USA company's closing p...

18 new cases of COVID-19 identified in Manitoba Sunday

Other numbers are as current as of Friday's reported figures, including six hospitalizations, with five of those patients being in intensive care. On Saturday...

Sunday Aug. 2 COVID-19 update: 141 new cases in Douglas County

Twenty-one Bay County residents have died from COVID-19. 1,123,927 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests have been conducted, with a 7.2 percent positive rate...

China sends first Covid-19 medical testing team to Hong Kong

While the city was slated to vote on September 6, Hong Kong's top official Carrie Lam announced on July 31 that the Legislative Council (LegCo) election would...

Pa. to hire more coronavirus contact tracers, starting at $18 an hour

The community health care workers serve as health liaisons for high-risk populations and work together with contact tracers. All work is remote. "This project w...

Healthcare workers more likely to test positive for COVID-19 -NK#135716

The voluntary organisation also intends to provide longer-term psychological, educational and practical support for frontline healthcare workers, their children...

20% of parents do not want their children returning to school

Nationwide Children's Hospital's survey in OH found that over 40 percent are reluctant to send their children back to school. More than half of parents have ...

California becomes first US state to surpass half-million COVID-19 cases

The 7-day average from the week prior was 10,005, according to the California Department of Public Health . "Our children deserve no less". In March, Los Ang...

Fauci confident virus vaccine will get to Americans in 2021

Dr Anthony Fauci - who is leading efforts to supress Coronavirus in the United States - has said he is cautiously optimistic that the USA would have a safe ...

Coronavirus crisis: Victoria faces likely hard lockdown this week

The state of Victoria recorded 397 new cases on Saturday. This brings the state's deaths in the pandemic to 116 and Australia's tally to 201. "We can't be c...

What it's like to receive a double-lung transplant for Covid-19

Ankit Bharat, a thoracic surgeon and surgical director of the Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program, said at the press conference . 'We are all lea...

McPherson county reports four new cases of COVID-19

Pennsylvania reported 888 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, about a fourth of them coming from either side of the state: Allegheny County (66) and Philadelph...

Victoria notes 397 new cases; and 124 cases are linked to Fawkner

Plans reportedly also include limiting the distance residents could travel from their homes and the closure of more businesses selling non-essential goods. "We ...

45 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Ireland

There have been 1,088 cases recorded in Vancouver Coastal Health, 1,889 in Fraser Health, 144 in the Island Health Authority and 369 in the Interior Health regi...