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Some 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, are being evacuated from the popular Vietnamese beach town of Da Nang after more than a dozen people were confirmed to have COVID-19, the government said Monday. Vietnam, widely seen as a success in the treatment of the coronavirus, re-imposed a social distancing order …

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will crack down on junk food advertising and introduce calorie counts on menus in an effort to combat obesity and ease pressure on the country’s National Health Service amid the coronavirus pandemic the government said Monday. For British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the intersection of obesity …

The number 4 reactor in ruins at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1987, some 14 months after the disaster. Image: Mark J. Porubcansky (AP) An experiment done aboard the International Space Station demonstrates the potential of a resistant fungus to protect astronauts from cosmic radiation. This mushroom has already …

Image copyright AFP Screenshot Coronavirus is the sixth WHO global health emergency The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that Covid-19 is easily the most serious global health emergency he has ever declared. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he would reconvene the WHO emergency committee this week …

Amid a viral outbreak in the Marlins and concerns in Philadelphia that they’ve canceled a game there, there is a sudden explosion of renewed questions about how MLB tries to handle the interaction between virus transmission, positive testing timing, and interactions. between humans. The answer? Well, we’ll just try harder! …