SYDNEY (Reuters) – An increase in COVID-19 cases in Australia’s second-largest city could take weeks to lessen despite a shutdown and orders to wear masks, Australia’s acting chief medical officer said Monday as the country prepares for a second wave of infection. FILE PHOTO: People walk downtown in the first …
Read More »Australian Prime Minister delays parliament as coronavirus spreads
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison delayed the opening of parliament for several weeks on Saturday as the new coronavirus continued to spread through the country’s two most populous states. Morrison asked the Speaker of Parliament to cancel a two-week session that will begin on August 4, out …
Read More »Hundreds of Thai people protest and demand government resignation
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Hundreds of Thais protested on Saturday night, demanding the resignation of the government and the dissolution of parliament, challenging the coronavirus ban in large gatherings in one of the largest street demonstrations since a 2014 military coup. A protester holds a poster during a protest demanding the …
Read More »COVID-19 antibody test passes first major tests in the UK with 98.6% accuracy – Telegraph
(Reuters) – British ministers are making plans to distribute millions of free tests for antibodies to the coronavirus after a UK government-backed version approved its first major tests, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Friday. Fingerprint tests, which can indicate in 20 minutes whether a person has been exposed to …
Read More »Rapidly decreasing immunity of COVID-19 poses a vaccination challenge
LONDON (Reuters) – Emerging evidence that the body’s immune defense against COVID-19 may be short-lived makes it even more difficult for vaccine developers to find vaccines fully capable of protecting people in future waves of infection, Scientists said Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Professor Gottfried Kremsner injects a coronavirus disease vaccine (COVID-19) …
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