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Study shows how quickly coronavirus spreads at home
Jun 17, 2020 (AFP)
Researchers based in China and the United States said their findings could have profound impacts on reducing the number of new infections as the pandemic progre...
Russian cities drop WWII victory parades on virus fears
Jun 17, 2020 (AFP)
The annual May 9 Victory Day parade in the capital was postponed this year due to the pandemic. It was the first mass event rescheduled -- for June 24 -- by Pre...
Israeli firm monitors sewers in fight against coronavirus
Jun 16, 2020 (AFP)
Ari Goldfarb saw a unique opportunity to test the limits of underground technology developed by his firm when coronavirus patients were moved into a hotel in As...
Beijing virus situation 'extremely severe' as 27 new cases reported
Jun 16, 2020 (AFP)
The coronavirus resurgence -- believed to have started at the city's sprawling Xinfadi wholesale food market -- has prompted alarm as China had largely brought ...
New virus cases in China, N. Zealand sound pandemic alarm
Jun 16, 2020 (AFP)
More than eight million people have now been infected with the virus worldwide since it first emerged in China late last year -- with more than 435,000 deaths -...
Parts of Beijing locked down as virus outbreak gathers fresh pace
Jun 15, 2020 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of people were also targeted in a massive test and trace programme, as the World Health Organization reported that more than 100 cases had bee...
DARPA Program Seeks to Develop Novel Therapeutics for Combating Microbial Infections
Jun 15, 2020 (SPX)
Despite this looming crisis, there has been a notable exodus of pharmaceutical companies from the antibiotic space, as well as several high-profile failures of ...
Second wave fears rise as China reports more new infections
Jun 14, 2020 (AFP)
The shock resurgence in domestic infections has rattled China, where the disease emerged late last year but had largely been tamed through severe restrictions o...
Mass virus testing in Beijing after new cluster triggers lockdowns
Jun 14, 2020 (AFP)
The deadly contagion had been brought largely under control in China through strict lockdowns that were imposed early this year but have since been lifted. But ...
China races to find virus vaccine, put scandals in the past
Jun 13, 2020 (AFP)
Six months after the first cases emerged in the city of Wuhan, China has moved quickly to develop a vaccine and is involved in several of the dozen or so intern...
Beijing lambastes Harvard coronavirus study as 'disinformation'
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
The virus first emerged late last year in the central city of Wuhan, but the US has repeatedly accused China of a lack of transparency about the outbreak and it...
Brazil to produce Chinese coronavirus vaccine: officials
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
Brazil has the world's second-highest coronavirus caseload after the United States, with more than 770,000 confirmed infections and nearly 40,000 deaths. Sao Pa...
China reports progress in swine fever vaccine trials
Jun 10, 2020 (AFP)
The widespread outbreak of swine fever since August 2018 has disrupted the supply of pork in China, where it is a staple meat, with millions of animals culled. ...
Overworked, underpaid Brazil nurses risk lives to care for patients
Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)
Bossan works three jobs to provide for his wife and two-year-old daughter -- at two different hospitals and a mobile emergency unit. Double and triple shifts li...
Washington troops hit with coronavirus after protests
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
DC National Guard spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Brooke Davis said they could not reveal the number of positive tests due to "operational security." She said th...
EU accuses China, Russia of virus disinformation campaigns
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
In a paper on what it called the "flood" of misleading and inaccurate information proliferating around the pandemic, Brussels says Beijing and Moscow had set ou...
New coronavirus may have emerged in summer 2019: study
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
The pandemic, which has been linked to a virus that crossed over from animals to humans, was initially identified in Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Market in December 2...
Virus travel bans separate families even as lockdowns ease
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
Across Asia, domestic lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus are easing, but international travel restrictions in the region remain tight. Many...
Pentagon relaxes travel restrictions caused by COVID-19
Jun 08, 2020 (UPI)
The relaxation on travel bans came in a statement on Monday from the Pentagon, which referred to a previous order. Stop-movement orders for travel to and from b...
Record virus deaths in Brazil, Mexico spur defence efforts
Jun 05, 2020 (AFP)
European nations are emerging from months of devastation with some borders re-opening, but South and Central America have become the new hotspots in a crisis th...
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