SAO PAULO / FRANFURT: Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford had passed away, but added that the trial would continue. Oxford confirmed the plan to continue testing, saying in a …
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Less than two weeks before election day, the former president urges blacks not to give in to apathy Less than two weeks before Election Day, former US President Barack Obama campaigned in Pennsylvania for his former Vice President and Democratic candidate Joe Biden. At a drive-in movie theater in Philadelphia, …
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In the first week of September, the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, which is developing a Covid-19 vaccine in collaboration with the University of Oxford, halted the trial process when two participants who participated in a trial developed an adverse impact. After this, the trial was stopped in other countries, raising concerns …
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Coronavirus: India is the country with the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. New Delhi: India’s coronavirus count has touched 77.06 with a jump of 55,839 cases in the past 24 hours, government data shows. 702 deaths in the past 24 hours have brought the total death …
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Democratic voters in at least four battle states, including Florida and Pennsylvania, received threatening emails, purporting to be from the far-right group Proud Boys, warning “we will chase you” if the recipients did not vote for President Donald Trump. (Click here for full coverage of the 2020 U.S. elections) The …
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The person who died had not received the vaccine. (Bloomberg) A participant who died during a trial of AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine in Brazil had not received the injection from the company, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person asked not to be identified because the information …
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WASHINGTON: The United States may be going through a turbulent nationwide election, but things are business as usual between Washington and New Delhi on the geopolitical front. Just one week before Election Day, the US Secretary of State. Mike pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper He will be in …
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