TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese bulk carrier cut off a coral reef off the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius on July 25, spilled some 1,000 tons of steel oil and declared a state of “environmental distress”. A general view shows the bulk carrier MV Wakashio, which ran on a reef, …
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An employee of the German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, demonstrates research into a vaccine for coronavirus (COVID-19) at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, March 12, 2020. Andreas Gebert | REUTERS CureVac raised $ 213 million in its initial public offering (IPO) in New York on Thursday, said a person familiar with …
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Dr. Sonia Macieiewski (R) and Dr. Nita Patel, director of vaccine discovery and development, looks at a sample of a respiratory virus at Novavax labs in Rockville, Maryland on March 20, 2020, one of the labs developing a vaccine for the coronavirus, COVID-19. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images …
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Consumers brought in less than expected in July as a decline in car sales helped cool an economy struggling to shake off the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Retail sales rose 1.2% in 1.2 months, against the expected increase of 2.3% in economists surveyed by Dow Jones. However, the news …
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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: …
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