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TOPLINE Dogs used in a German research study were trained within a week to successfully detect, with 94 percent accuracy, saliva samples taken from Covid-19 patients, offering the possibility that they can be used in future large meetings to detect carriers of the disease. A specially trained explosive detection dog …

Government and health officials in Starr County announced this week that they are creating committees to review patient cases at Starr County Memorial Hospital in the city of Rio Grande. At least 50% of patients admitted to the hospital’s emergency room have tested positive for Covid-19, Dr. José Vásquez, the …

BANGKOK – Vietnam, who had gone 100 days without reporting a case of local transmission of the coronavirus, said on Saturday that a 57-year-old grandfather in the central city of Danang had tested positive. How he contracted the disease remains a mystery. To avoid a larger outbreak, the Health Ministry …

A Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant who was one of 17 people who tested positive for coronavirus after attending the training event in person, died Tuesday, the company confirmed. © Provided by NBC News Jeff Kurtzman (Courtesy of Connie Florez) Jeff Kurtzman and 16 others contracted the respiratory illness after attending …

Justin Bieber visited Kanye West this week in Wyoming amid reports that the presidential candidate has distanced himself from his wife, Kim Kardashian. Like much of his communication with fans and fans this week, West, 43, took to Twitter to announce the arrival of the pop star. “DD and JB …