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Arkansas Air National Guard to install UV lights to prevent COVID spread
Aug 13, 2020 (UPI)
The Pentagon said Thursday it has awarded FAR UV Technologies, a Missouri-based disinfectant technology company with a $1 million contract to initiate the proje...
Russian region orders mass vaccination against bubonic plague
Aug 13, 2020 (AFP)
The order was issued after Mongolia's health ministry said Wednesday that bubonic plague killed a man in the country's west. It was the latest in a handful of c...
Iraq reports 24-hour virus toll record of over 3,800
Aug 13, 2020 (AFP)
The latest count raises total confirmed cases in Iraq to 164,277, including 5,641 deaths, according to the ministry. The novel coronavirus has brought Iraq's fr...
Shadow of coronavirus slowly lifts from epicentre Wuhan
Aug 11, 2020 (AFP)
The central Chinese city's recovery after a 76-day lockdown was lifted in April has brought life back onto its streets. The queues snaking outside breakfast sta...
Five million cases: What next for America's COVID-19 epidemic?
Aug 10, 2020 (AFP)
Here is the state of play of America's COVID-19 epidemic, and what may happen in the coming months. - The good - First some positive trends: the national daily ...
Europeans warned not to forget virus as temperatures soar
Aug 08, 2020 (AFP)
The day after Britain recorded its hottest August day in 17 years, at 36.4 degrees Celsius (97.5 Fahrenheit), much of its southern coastline was packed with vis...
Hong Kong offers universal virus testing, with Beijing's help
Aug 07, 2020 (AFP)
Initially a poster child for the battle against the coronavirus, Hong Kong has seen a third wave brought in by certain business and logistic arrivals that were ...
U.S. military surpasses 30,000 COVID-19 cases
Aug 07, 2020 (UPI)
The Department of Defense now has recorded 30,392 cases of the coronavirus among military personnel, with civilian, contractor and dependent cases bringing DoD'...
German-Chinese coronavirus vaccine trial begins in China
Aug 05, 2020 (AFP)
Seventy-two participants have already received their first dose following approval for the phase 1 trial from Chinese regulatory authorities, BioNTech and Fosun...
National Guard to continue COVID-19 deployments with federal pay cut
Aug 04, 2020 (UPI)
But the extension doesn't come with the funding 42 U.S. governors asked for Monday. Per a White House memo issued Monday night, the federal government will only...
WHO warns there may never be a COVID-19 'silver bullet'
Aug 03, 2020 (AFP)
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged governments and citizens to focus on known basic steps to suppress the pandemic, such as testing, contact tracing, ma...
For Iraqi mothers-to-be, hospitals are pandemic no-go zones
Aug 02, 2020 (AFP)
Across the country recovering from decades of war, health centres face shortages of oxygen supplies and protective equipment even as coronavirus cases soar to a...
Hong Kong opens makeshift hospital for COVID-19 patients
Aug 01, 2020 (AFP)
The financial hub had been a poster child for tackling the coronavirus, with local transmissions all but ended by early summer. But since July the pathogen has ...
US says unlikely to use China, Russia virus vaccine as race heats up
Aug 01, 2020 (AFP)
Six months after the World Health Organization declared a global emergency, the novel coronavirus has killed at least 679,000 people and infected at least 17.9 ...
Italy travel linked to 1 in 4 first virus cases outside China: study
Jul 31, 2020 (AFP)
Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used publicly-available data to trace the early spread of COVID-19 to dozens of affected coun...
India virus deaths pass Italy's as floods hamper battle
Jul 31, 2020 (AFP)
With 779 new deaths in 24 hours, the health ministry put total fatalities at 35,747, giving India the world's fifth-highest death toll behind the United States,...
Hong Kong reverses virus ban on restaurant dining
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
All restaurants in the city of 7.5 million were ordered Wednesday to only serve takeaways as part of a raft of ramped-up social distancing measures aimed at com...
Pentagon awards Glaxo $342 mn contract for COVID vaccines
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
It said GSK was the only company to make a bid for the contract, which will consist of supporting "military locations and personnel throughout the continental U...
Australia marks deadliest day of epidemic; Florida hits another record
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
Days after authorities expressed hope that a Melbourne lockdown now in its third week was bringing persistent outbreaks under control, the surge is a potent war...
China records highest new-case count in three months
Jul 29, 2020 (AFP)
Of the new cases, 98 were domestic infections, mostly in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where a growing cluster first discovered earlier this month has pr...
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