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South Korea reports 113 new coronavirus cases, most since March

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Which major supermarkets will challenge customers for not wearing face masks?

A similar rule is already in force across Scotland. "With this new health order in Baltimore, if you are around other people for any reason, in any setting,...

US marks over 68,000 virus cases in 24 hours

In Indiana there were 934 new cases and 11 deaths on Saturday and Montana reported its highest daily number of cases on Saturday with 224 new cases. In term...

'HAVE TO FOLLOW MY CONVICTIONS:' No NFL season for Montreal's Duvernay-Tardif

Duvernay-Tardif is the first player in the NFL to make such a decision and is the only practicing doctor now playing in the league. "This is one of the most h...

Kanye West apologises to Kim Kardashian in revealing tweet

Sources close to the couple tell TMZ . there's been very little communication between husband and wife since he jetted off for his SC rally last weekend, and z...

Indoor visits permitted at Toronto's long-term care homes starting today

The government published new guidance on Wednesday for how care homes can restart visits while also limiting the risk of further COVID-19 outbreaks. It is und...

Despite Trump's Veto Threat, Senate Approves Provision To Rename Military Bases

Hood in Texas, Ft. Robert E. Lee and A.P. Hill in Virginia . "You know, they're in pretty bad shape when they have to go with something, based on the rough i...

Department says 9 new deaths were reported today and 7 new cases

There were also 7 new confirmed cases. Separate analyses based on the date of death registration, shows that the provisional number of total deaths from all c...

Parents warned not to put face masks on babies and young children

A reasonable excuse includes: where a person can not put on, wear or remove a face covering because of physical or mental illness, impairment or disability; whe...

U.S. places $1.95 billion order for Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine

Additionally, 500 million more doses can be acquired - all for free to U.S. citizens. "This approach helps meet the US government's Operation Warp Speed goa...

US COVID-19 cases could be much greater

Nationwide, some 3.9 million people have tested positive for coronavirus, but the CDC says that the actual number may be up to 13 times higher than that. Earlie...

McPherson County reports two new cases of COVID-19

Frankovich said. Geary County has seen eight new positive cases of COVID-19 since Tuesday, July 21. The last time Clark County had positive test result rate...

Coronavirus Protein Redesigned in Lab, May Enable Fast, Stable Vaccine Production

Ryan said in a social media event that people may need to wait until early 2021 to get vaccinated. According to Ryan, WHO was working to expand access to pote...

Indian Govt Will Distribute COVID-19 Vaccine For Free: Adar Poonawalla

He said: "And we need to be fair about this, because this is a global good". In their reports, they said their vaccines induced a multipronged immune response t...

Donald Trump cancels Republican Convention after virus safety concern, plans virtual nomination

The Republican National Convention event was supposed to be held in Jacksonville - a city in the COVID-19 hotspot state of Florida. Separately, Birx said pub...

Immunity drops quickly in mild COVID-19 cases, shows new study

They say it's possible that vaccine strategies that employ full-length sequences of the S protein or whole inactivated SARS-CoV-2 (such as PiCoVacc), could spon...

U.S. coronavirus cases far more than reported — CDC

For HCP who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA but never develop symptoms, isolation and other precautions can be discontinued 10 days after the test, according t...

A new blood test can detect cancer four years before symptoms show

A simple blood test could reveal cancer years before conventional tests - before symptoms even develop. For 191 patients diagnosed with cancer, the scientists...

Details expected Thursday of review or inquiry into Nova Scotia's mass murder

Critics were quick to point out that the panel would be unable to compel witnesses to testify, though Blair and Furey told reporters that they had confidence th...

Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine elicits immune response in animal models

VSV, according to the researchers, is a workhorse of virology labs, and primarily a virus of cattle, horses and pigs. The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein ...

Trump Says He Has Good Relationship with Fauci, Denounces Navarro Op-Ed

The president made the remarks in response to an article written by Navarro for USA Today , which criticized the director of the National Institute of Allerg...

U.S., Pfizer, BioNTech reach deal to distribute COVID-19 vaccine

Pfizer previously said it will not make a profit from its vaccine that is estimated to cost $19.50 a dose, according to The Wall Street Journal . The contr...

Trump signs memorandum attempting to exclude non-citizens from U.S. census

Why it matters: The move is sure to provoke legal challenges. In 1979, the Federation for American Immigration Reform and several members of Congress sued, dem...

Covid vaccine by Oct/Nov 2020: Adar Poonawalla

The CM said that the State Government will be in touch with Serum Institute for this objective. "They will probably take about 1-2 weeks on what kind of study...

Pfizer, US Reach $1.95 Billion Coronavirus Vaccine Deal

An additional 500 million doses can be acquired, and US citizens would receive the vaccine for free, according to the agreement. The Trump administration ha...

California breaks record with over 12,000 new coronavirus cases

As of Wednesday, California now has about 700 more cases than NY. NY was once the epicenter of the pandemic but has successfully flattened its infection curve...

More than half of Ontario's new COVID cases aged 39 or younger

Yesterday, a spike of 43 new cases was reported in Ottawa, making up nearly a quarter of the province's new case total. There are now 2,755 centrally confirme...

B.C. COVID-19 cases spike; 102 new ones province-wide

There have been no new COVID-19 related deaths for a total of 189 deaths in British Columbia. There are now 266 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. Ther...

COVID-19 Vaccine Developed by Chinese Researchers Enters Final Trials in Brazil

The company is expected to begin trials in Japan in August as the world waits for a vaccine to stop the pandemic. The vaccines' staying power is not yet known...

Pfizer to get $2B for coronavirus vaccine under 'Operation Warp Speed'

BioNTech and Pfizer are among the drugmakers that have shown the most promising vaccine results so far, and this deal is extremely encouraging news. as direct...

Students returning to near-normal classes in September

However, she says that's not the case and the real decision to be made is either to open our schools or open them safely. She said she's also approved the use o...

Biden to announce $775 billion plan to support families, caregivers and educators

Biden previously released proposals aimed at boosting US manufacturing and building clean-energy infrastructure projects as the country continues to reel fr...

Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies fade quickly in mild cases

These cells then produce the spike protein , and travel to the lymph nodes where the immune system creates antibodies that will recognize that spike protein an...

DuPage County reports 103 cases of COVID-19 Tuesday, including one death

Cranberry Township now has the most cases of the coronavirus with 117, according to the Department of Health's website which breaks the case count down by zip...

New Covid-19 death in Hamilton County, record hospitalizations again

The number of new cases remains well below the peak in April, when the state regularly reported more than 1,000 new cases each day. The ICU cases also climbed...