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CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to create a strain of the new coronavirus that could be used in human challenge tests of vaccines, a controversial type of study in which healthy volunteers would vaccinate and then deliberately infect with the virus, Reuters has learned. FILE PHOTO: …

With the losses of the Denver Nuggets and Houston Rockets and the victory of Oklahoma City Thunder yesterday, the seeding of the Nuggets playoffs is set. They will be the top three seed in the Western Conference for the 2020 NBA playoffs. Their opponent is also determined, the sixth-seeded Utah …

Fernando Alonso became the first driver to crash during training for the Indianapolis 500 in 2020. The Spaniard made a mistake by doping his band from left to bottom down the white line in Turn 4, and made contact with the curb that the racing surface separates from the grass. …

Venezuelan oil company PDVSA is recently considering re-launching another petrol-producing unit, hoping to put an end to the petrol shortage in the country, which sits on top of the world’s largest reserves of crude oil. PDVSA plans to restart the gasoline-producing unit at its CRP refining complex within two weeks, …

An exponential rise in Covid-19 cases among children in the US, the alarm has sounded alarm among experts as the new school year begins. A recently released study by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association found that nearly 339,000 cases of coronavirus among children have been …