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- India’s COVID-19 active caseload shrinks to 1.84 lakh
- Only Six New County Cases Reported Friday
- Coronavirus: UK variant confirmed at Roberta Place in Barrie, Ont.
- Province Confirms 2632 New Cases of COVID-19 This Morning
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Health Canada expects first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved next month
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There have been 13 new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 384 deaths in British Columbia since the beginning of the pandemic. With the highest number of ...
Ontario won't be seeing the COVID-19 vaccines in early 2021
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Scientists defend AstraZeneca and Oxford over vaccine questions
In one group, 2741 participants received a half-dose of the vaccine and then a full dose at least a month later. Soriot said he didn't expect the additional t...
England readies for post-lockdown tiers
Hotels and indoor entertainment venues must also close in these areas. Coronavirus infections across the United Kingdom appear to have dropped significantly...
Premier pauses NL participation in Atlantic Bubble for two weeks
The province now has 23 active cases. I respect the decision of the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador to take further steps at thi...
Mexico reports 10 335 new COVID 19 cases
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In Brazil, Pfizer begins process to register Covid-19 vaccine
Explaining that there is no Covid-19 vaccine approved for mass use and publicly available yet, the multinational clarified, "Once approved, Pfizer will supply t...
Joe Biden promises 'diplomacy first' after Trump era
The GSA determination that Biden is the apparent victor gives him access to classified briefings on national security threats and will allow his aides to coordi...
Loeffler Quarantines After Inconclusive COVID-19 Tests And Indoor Campaign Events
President Trump 's Attorney has suggested to voters in Georgia , where two Senate runoff elections are due to take place in January, they should hold off vot...
941 new cases, 10 deaths
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COVID-19 rapid tests deployed to some Ontario hospitals, long-term care homes
We've already deployed these tests in 26 long-term care homes and 27 retirement homes. "We will also use these tests to conduct early investigations into outbre...
County COVID cases continue to increase
The numbers decreased slightly from Monday's 2,259 cases and caused the rolling weekly average to settle at a peak of 2,672 cases a day. "Of those, 1,203 patien...
Restaurants Fight LA's Coronavirus Orders In Court
Prior to the announcement, LA County officials had warned that these restrictions could come if the five-day average of new cases in the county totaled above 4,...
Covid-19: Oxford University vaccine is highly effective
Three vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech, Sputnik and Moderna - have already reported good preliminary data from phase three trials, with one suggesting 94 per cent o...
EU reaches deal with Moderna on COVID-19 vaccine supply
After Pfizer submitted its application for a COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week, IL public health officials have continued ...
Six months immunity following COVID-19 infection, say researchers
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Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine trial results 'definitely' before Christmas: investigator
This is in addition to the 1 billion syringes that need to be transported by sea-freight. United States admiral's undercover visit to Taiwan certain to annoy Ch...
AstraZeneca : must prove claim to cheapest COVID-19 vaccine - MSF
Meanwhile, as Brunei will be hosting the ASEAN Summit next year, Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham said it is very unlikely the nation can host in-person meeti...
More South Dakotans Choosing Not to Travel This Thanksgiving
Last week, the CDC advised Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving, and instead opt for virtual Thanksgiving gatherings, or limit celebrations to those withi...
Maximum 4K fans to be allowed into England stadiums starting December
Mr Johnson said: "It seems that nearly every week there is some new scientific breakthrough to help us beat Covid, last week it was good news from Pfizer-BioN...
Coronavirus Ireland: no further deaths and 252 new cases
The national 14-day incidence rate has now fallen to 109 per 100,000 population, with Donegal still reporting the highest incidence rate in the country at 2...
AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine is 70% effective on average, data shows
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Governor Introduces COVID-19 County Alert System
North Carolina health secretary Mandy Cohen said hospitals are overwhelmed, "especially in the Trinity area". On Nov. 17, the N.C. Department of Health and ...
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can be 90% effective, results show
AstraZeneca's proposed vaccine produced less effective results when compared with others produced by rivals BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna , which were shown to b...
AZ's COVID-19 vaccine proves promising in elderly participants, new data shows
Both low and standard doses of the vaccine triggered responses in both parts of the immune system. Reporting on data from a Phase II trial of the ChAdOx1 nCov-2...
Govt taking steps to ensure child rights protection: PM
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Coronavirus vaccines: Most promising and effective COVID vaccines found so far
Vaccines for the novel coronavirus may become available to Americans by mid-December after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration grants emergency use approval. ...
FDA authorises emergency use of experimental Covid drug given to Donald Trump
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How the Oxford vaccine works: The half dose regime that surprised scientists
Monday's statement said "positive high-level results from an interim analysis of clinical trials of AZD1222 in the United Kingdom and Brazil showed the vaccin...
US expects to begin COVID vaccinations in early December
Also earlier this month, US biotechnology company Moderna released preliminary data, saying its COVID-19 vaccine appears to be 94.5 percent effective. The cri...
AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine 70% effective at tackling coronavirus
The vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, showed an average efficacy of 70% in preventing the coronavirus , according to the company. Speaking to t...
After Pfizer and Moderna, this company`s COVID-19 vaccine shows 70% efficacy
Somani for its vaccine next month, and get the regulatory greenlight in January, provided there was robust efficacy data from Astrazeneca's trials. All result...
British vaccine is 70.4% effective against Covid-19, data shows
Dr Maheshi Ramasamy, investigator at the Oxford Vaccine Group and consultant physician, said: "Older adults are a priority group for Covid-19 vaccination, b...
Clemson's Swinney: 'COVID was just an excuse' for FSU to cancel game
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