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Covid-19 vaccine: China's been vaccinating doctors and border workers since July

Vaccines are being administered in two doses, with the second given one month after the first shot. A separate inter-agency team has been working on a local v...

Antibody tests approved for use in SA

Health minister Zahid Maleque on Monday said that antigen tests for the suspected COVID-19 patients would begin soon at the government laboratories and hospital...

Cuomo: Low-risk youth sports can practice, play in the fall

The governor also announced the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and New York City Health + Hospitals will set up new testing sites at JFK and LaGuardi...

CDC drops 14-day quarantine guidance for worldwide, out-of-state travelers

The CDC noted, however, travel can increase the risk of contracting the coronavirus, but the agency no longer requires a 14-day quarantine period for worldwide ...

Victoria COVID cases up by 148, and eight deaths

Andrews said the current state of emergency in Victoria expired on September 13, but he meant to introduce a bill to parliament to extend that until at least ...

Oregon's COVID-19 test positivity rate holds steady, weekly report shows

The health department is still investigating whether these individuals have been exposed to a known Covid-19 positive case. Oregon's statewide test positivity...

Emergency use of coronavirus vaccines authorized

This isn't the first time the country has approved the use of an experimental vaccine. Earlier this month, the Australian government announced that it has sig...

North Dakota reaches 10000 in positive tests for COVID-19

Bell County now has 66 active cases, including seven who are hospitalized: a 66-year-old male, an 83-year-old male, a 62-year-old male, a 75-year-old male, a 94...

Falwell Jr. resigns from Liberty University

In an exclusive interview with Reuters , Granda said he was 20 years old in 2012 when he met the couple while working as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau ...

China has been testing a vaccine in humans since July

According to the company's chairman Liu Jingdezhen, the third phase of the vaccine trial is now underway in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Chuchalin told Mail...

Some Endangered Species, Domestic Animals May Be Vulnerable To Coronavirus, Says Study

Using genomic analysis, the researchers used these 25 amino acid sequences of the receptor to find out how many of these amino acids were present in the ACE2 ...

FDA authorizes COVID-19 plasma treatment, but more testing needed

Despite experts raising doubts over the plasma therapy to treat COVID-19, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorisation ...

China approves emergency usage of COVID-19 vaccines, official says

According to statements made by AstraZeneca, the price of a dose of this vaccine will be around three euros. The source said the vaccine will belong to Serum ...

Jerry Falwell Jr. agrees to resign from Liberty University

He also shared a screenshot of a text from 2012 in which Becki Falwell allegedly told him: "Right now I am just missing you like insane". Jerry Falwell Sr...

4 new instances of COVID at NSW

Elsewhere, Tangara School for Girls in Cherrybrook in Sydney's northwest - which has been linked to 27 coronavirus cases to date - is due to reopen on Monday ...

Health Officials Report 746 More COVID-19 Cases, 8 Deaths

Health officials say almost 61,700 people have now recovered from the virus. At the St. Michael Medical Center in Bremerton, more than 30 cases have been repo...

Premier Moe congratulates O'Toole on Conservative leadership win

O'Toole won in the third round after a close race with MacKay, picking up support of part of the religious right, which had supported Lewis, according to severa...

Hong Kong researchers document first case of virus reinfection

Scientists in Hong Kong have reported the first documented case of coronavirus re-infection, casting doubt on the idea that lasting immunity against the deadl...

Ontario records over 100 new COVID-19 cases

There have been a total of 2,839 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa. Ottawa made up almost one quarter of cases reported province wide on Monday. The true ...

United Kingdom health advisors say missing school is greater risk than COVID-19

However, individual schools could close if they are in an area that is subject to a local lockdown, she said. Schools in Scotland reopened earlier this month,...

Local COVID-19 Case Numbers Holding Steady

There have been 9,876 total positive tests since the pandemic started; 1,676 cases are active. Brookings County is in the "moderate" community spread category...

China approves human testing for coronavirus vaccine grown in insect cells

It also found that 14 percent support President Duterte participating in trial of the Russian vaccine; 11 percent want administration supporters and public offi...

Coronavirus will be with us forever, Sage scientist warns

Sir Mark Walport said people would need to be vaccinated at regular intervals. Sir Mark said countries are more densely populated and people travel more than ...

Israel shells Hamas posts in Gaza after rocket fired

According to the channel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has actually restored his risks to assassinate leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Ga...

Federal judge issues stay in Trump challenge of mail balloting in Pennsylvania

Earlier today, President Trump tweeted that mail drop boxes are a "voter security disaster", that allow people to vote multiple times. By Sunday afternoon...

Philippines in talks with 16 Covid-19 vaccine makers to secure supplies

China has several novel coronavirus vaccine candidates in the late stage of development. China has been administering experimental coronavirus vaccines to g...

61 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Ireland

As of midnight Saturday, August 22, the HPSC has been notified of 61 confirmed cases of Covid-19. The total number of coronavirus cases in Galway is 509, acco...

Trump lauds blood plasma treatment for COVID-19

The advantage for Trump , if the FDA approved the emergency use authorization , would be to show, before the elections, how he found a solution to stop the ...

Santa Fe County leads state in new COVID-19 cases

The number of local cumulative positive COVID-19 cases increased slightly from Friday's report from the Indiana State Department of Health. The counties with ...

US Approves Plasma Therapy Against Coronavirus In US

Trump, announcing the decision Sunday at the White House, called convalescent plasma a "powerful therapy". Until recently, Trump had praised the FDA for m...