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Senior Pentagon official infected with Covid-19
Nov 20, 2020 (AFP)
Spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said that the Pentagon was informed Thursday that Lithuanian Minister of Defence Raimundas Karoblis, who visited Washington on Novemb...
Facebook moderators press for pandemic safety protections
Nov 19, 2020 (AFP)
A petition signed by the contract workers living in various countries said Facebook should guarantee better conditions or allow the workers to continue their jo...
DR Congo announces end of latest Ebola epidemic
Nov 18, 2020 (AFP)
"I am happy to solemnly declare the end of the 11th epidemic of the Ebola virus," Health Minister Eteni Longondo told journalists. The World Health Organization...
Peatland conservation may prevent new diseases from jumping to humans
Nov 17, 2020 (UPI)
According to the authors of the new study, published Tuesday in journal PeerJ, better protecting and restoring tropical peat-swamp forests could help curb the e...
Defense Department stockpiles supplies as COVID-19 cases increase
Nov 16, 2020 (UPI)
The supplies include respirators, gloves and masks for use by military personnel and families, and was purchased and stockpiled by the Defense Logistics Agency....
Microsoft urges action on health care cyber attacks
Nov 13, 2020 (AFP)
"In recent months, we've detected cyberattacks from three nation-state actors targeting seven prominent companies directly involved in researching vaccines and ...
New York rolls out curbs as virus grips US, Europe
Nov 13, 2020 (AFP)
It comes as the US, already the world's hardest-hit country, experiences its third and worst-by-far spike in infections, and large parts of Europe shut down aga...
Brazil allows trials of Chinese vaccine to resume
Nov 11, 2020 (AFP)
The regulatory agency, Anvisa, said it had now received more details on the nature of the "adverse incident" that led it to halt final-stage trials of the Coron...
EU could see first Covid-19 jabs in early 2021: health agency
Nov 11, 2020 (AFP)
"I think optimistically first quarter next year, but I can't be more precise," Andrea Ammon, the director of the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Pre...
Hong Kong and Singapore to launch 'travel bubble' on Nov 22
Nov 11, 2020 (AFP)
A quota of 200 residents from each city will be able to travel on one daily flight to the other, Hong Kong commerce minister Edward Yau told a press conference....
Asia markets build on vaccine, Biden gains
Nov 11, 2020 (AFP)
Equities were already in the ascendant at the end of last week as it appeared the former vice president was looking on course to wrest control of the White Hous...
Row erupts over Brazil suspension of Chinese vaccine trials
Nov 10, 2020 (AFP)
Brazilian health regulator Anvisa announced late Monday it was suspending clinical trials of CoronaVac, developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech...
USFK announces 21 COVID-19 cases among new arrivals to Korea
Nov 10, 2020 (UPI)
Those testing positive include 16 service members who arrived on four chartered flights from the United States in November, as well as four dependents and one c...
Videos show why masks with valves don't slow COVID-19 spread
Nov 10, 2020 (UPI)
Masks aren't so much a tool of self-preservation and individual protection as they are a social project. Their effectiveness relies on community-wide adoption a...
Brazil halts trials of Chinese vaccine; Swiss army on Covid front line
Nov 10, 2020 (AFP)
The setback for CoronaVac, developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech, came on the same day US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said its own vaccine ca...
UN hails new therapy to prevent HIV in women
Nov 09, 2020 (AFP)
Injected in women every two months, cabotegravir is 89 percent more effective in preventing HIV than daily pills of PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis, the UNAIDS b...
DLR tests filter system to reduce virus load in enclosed spaces
Nov 09, 2020 (SPX)
In enclosed spaces, the risk of being infected by pathogens that are primarily transmitted via the human respiratory tract increases with the quantity of aeroso...
DARPA selects teams to modify skin microbiome for disease prevention
Nov 09, 2020 (SPX)
Mosquitos are of particular concern to the Department of Defense, as they transmit pathogens that cause diseases such as chikungunya, Zika, dengue, West Nile vi...
WHO urged to invite Taiwan to key meeting
Nov 06, 2020 (AFP)
As many parts of the world are reeling from surging numbers of Covid-19 infections and deaths, the WHO is due Monday to resume its main annual meeting, which wa...
China bars arrivals from France over virus fears
Nov 06, 2020 (AFP)
Covid-19 first emerged in central China late last year, but Beijing has largely brought its outbreak under control through tight travel restrictions and stringe...
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