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11.40 p.m. BST11:40 Head of the California Department of Public Health dismissed The head of the California Department of Public Health resigned late Sunday, reports the Associated Press, just days after the state announced a fix for a glitch that caused a lag in gathering information on coronavirus tests used …

TOKYO / NEW YORK – The price of gold increases as the coronavirus rages around the world and the US dollar shrinks. According to the World Gold Council, the demand for gold jewelry in China in the first half of 2020 was 52% less than a year earlier. For Chinese, …

For a world crippled by the coronavirus, salvation depends on a vaccine. But in the United States, where at least 4.6 million people have been infected and nearly 155,000 have died, the promise of that vaccine is hampered by a devastating epidemic that preceded COVID-19: obesity. Scientists know that vaccines …

How much for all this? What about some information that is not so easily shared? With everything on the line, the immunity of COVID-19 feels a bit like a priceless commodity. Pricing a vaccine is not as complicated as making one, but it is not far off. To defeat the …

A heart feeds in a western Canadian canola field that is in full bloom this week before it will be harvested later this summer in rural Alberta, Canada July 23, 2019. REUTERS / Todd Korol August 9, 2020 By Rod Nickel and Hallie Gu WINNIPEG, Manitoba / BEIJING (Reuters) – …