DUBAI: Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm has begun Phase III clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine in the emirate of Abu Dhabi using around 15,000 volunteers, the Abu Dhabi government media office said on Thursday (Jul 16). The human trial taking place in Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab […]
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OKLAHOMA CITY: Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt said on Wednesday (Jul 15) he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the first time a US state governor has announced they were infected. The number of US cases has spiked, particularly in the south and west, since local officials started loosening […]
A Shinto maiden wearing a protective face mask walks at a shrine amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan Jul 15, 2020. WASHINGTON: Coronavirus infections surged across the globe on Wednesday (Jul 15), forcing several countries to put the brakes on reopening or impose new restrictions on […]
SYDNEY: New Zealand must prepare for new coronavirus outbreaks as the pandemic spreads globally but will not drop its elimination strategy if community transmission was discovered, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday (Jul 15). Ardern said the epidemic was now “exploding” outside New Zealand and countries that had been […]
WASHINGTON: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said on Tuesday (Jul 14) that if all Americans wore a mask, the rising cases of COVID-19 could be under control within four to eight weeks. Redfield was speaking in an online interview with the Journal of the […]
WASHINGTON: US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 87-year-old anchor of its liberal faction, has been hospitalised for a suspected infection, the court said on Tuesday (Jul 14). Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore early Tuesday after first going to her regular Washington hospital with fever […]
WASHINGTON: US biotech firm Moderna said on Tuesday (Jul 14) it would enter the final stage of human trials for its COVID-19 vaccine on Jul 27, after promising early results were published in an influential journal. Moderna was the first to start human testing of a vaccine for the novel […]
REUTERS: Alabama, Florida and North Carolina reported record daily increases in deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday (Jul 14), grim new milestones that mark a second wave of infections surging across much of the United States. Florida, which has become an epicentre of the new outbreak, reported 133 new COVID-19 fatalities […]
REUTERS: Most Americans wore cloth face-coverings after the government recommended their use in April, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a publication released on Tuesday (Jul 14). CDC researchers analysed data from more than 800 adults in two internet surveys in April and May who […]
BANGALORE: India’s IT hub Bangalore will go back into lockdown Tuesday (Jul 14) as the number of coronavirus cases in the country surged towards a million with about 500 people dying daily. After imposing one of the world’s strictest lockdowns in late March, India has been steadily easing rules to […]