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Brazil threatens to quit WHO, Trump says US beating pandemic
Jun 05, 2020 (SPX)
Adding fuel to the political fire raging around the pandemic, its origins and the best way to respond, Bolsonaro criticized the World Health Organization for su...
Wuhan doctor at whistleblower's hospital dies from coronavirus
Jun 02, 2020 (AFP)
Hu Weifeng, a urologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, died on Friday after being treated for COVID-19 and allied issues for more than four months, state broadcaste...
DLR studies the spread of viruses in aircraft and trains
Jun 02, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at the DLR site in Gottingen are investigating the spread of potentially virus-laden droplets in trains and aircraft, both through experiments and c...
Malaysian university moots robot graduation ceremonies to cut virus risk
Jun 02, 2020 (AFP)
A video of the planned ceremonies released by the university shows two elegantly attired, waist-high robots being handed diplomas by high-ranking university off...
Army scientists say they could have a COVID-19 vaccine by year's end
Jun 02, 2020 (UPI)
Using a virus isolated from the blood of a Washington state man who was the virus' first U.S. death, Army researchers are testing vaccines in hundreds of mice, ...
Wuhan tests nearly 10 million people, finds only 300 infections
Jun 02, 2020 (AFP)
Chinese authorities claim to have largely brought the virus under control but Wuhan officials -- wary of a second wave -- launched the programme after new infec...
West Point cadets returning for graduation test positive for COVID-19
Jun 01, 2020 (UPI)
The graduating seniors of the West Point, N.Y.,academy, about 40 miles north of New York City, returned to their homes across the country after classes were can...
West Bank poverty may double over pandemic as annexation looms
Jun 01, 2020 (AFP)
The United Nations has warned that such a move by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government would stifle financial and aid flows to the Palestinians and "m...
Pope prays for Amazonians so 'vulnerable' to the coronavirus
May 31, 2020 (AFP)
The coronavirus crisis is a new threat in the Amazon where a surge in deforestation under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro already threatens isolated tribes. ...
Poor and black, northeast Brazil faces virus 'hurricane'
May 29, 2020 (AFP)
As the virus surges in Brazil -- which now has the second-most cases in the world after the United States -- the country's poorest region has been hit hard, bot...
Latin America's slums facing losing battle against virus spread
May 29, 2020 (AFP)
With limited sanitation and little space, millions of people living cheek by jowl in slums cannot take even the most basic hand-washing and social distancing pr...
Solution to century-old math problem may predict disease transmission
May 29, 2020 (UPI)
The solution, discovered by Luca Giuggioli, a senior lecturer in the engineering mathematics department at the University of Bristol, calculates the probability...
India coronavirus death toll passes China's
May 29, 2020 (AFP)
India, home to some of the world's most packed cities and a creaking healthcare system, is emerging as a new hotspot with record jumps in new cases in recent da...
Russian army deploys field hospitals in virus-hit Dagestan
May 27, 2020 (AFP)
Army doctors built a 100-bed facility in Botlikh village and "medical staff are ready to receive and treat patients", the defence ministry said in a statement. ...
Larry Kramer, gay rights pioneer and AIDS activist, dies at 84
May 27, 2020 (AFP)
At a time when the infection was yet to be named, Kramer spearheaded a crusade to provoke action from the medical and political establishments that were failing...
Canada reports horrific conditions in nursing homes; As 'Huawei Princess' extradition saga continues
May 26, 2020 (AFP)
The Canadian military deployed troops at the height of the pandemic in April to five elderly care homes in the nation's most populous province to fill severe st...
South Korean jailed for breaking quarantine; Indonesia deploys troops
May 26, 2020 (AFP)
- South Korean quarantine breaker jailed - A South Korean man was jailed for four months on Tuesday for breaking coronavirus quarantine rules, authorities said,...
Japan lifts emergency, India domestic flights resume
May 25, 2020 (AFP)
- Japan lifts virus emergency - Japan lifted a nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus, gradually reopening the world's third-largest economy as gove...
Wuhan lab had three live bat coronaviruses: Chinese state media
May 24, 2020 (AFP)
Scientists think COVID-19 -- which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and has killed more than 340,000 people worldwide -- originated in bats an...
US virus tracking: a patchwork of apps, human tracers
May 24, 2020 (AFP)
Efforts in the United States to track the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus -- known as contact tracing -- have become a patchwork based on differing appro...
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