Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide will hold a press conference in Oslo, Norway on August 27, 2020. Heiko Junge / NTB Scanpix / via REUTERS EDITORIALS FOR COMMENT – This image was provided by a third party . NOWAY OUT. NOW COMMERCIAL OR …
Read More »University of Cambridge strives for autumn trials of coronavirus vaccine to UK funding
FILE PHOTO: An almost empty street is seen outside Cambridge University, as the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease continues, Cambridge, UK, 1 April 2020. REUTERS / Andrew Couldridge LONDON (Reuters) – The University of Cambridge is set to begin clinical trials in the autumn of its possible coronavirus vaccine after …
Read More »Trump says he has saved 51 million jobs in pandemic. Economists, US officials say otherwise
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Standing in front of half a dozen American flags at a press conference at his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, President Donald Trump announced what has become a central part of his November re-election argument: the treatment of his administration of the economic downturn of the …
Read More »U.S. first unemployment claims fell to $ 1 million in late August, reversing the downward trend
The numbers: New unemployment benefits fell to just over $ 1 million in late August, resuming a downward trend, perhaps signaling the resumption of a slow or painful recovery in the U.S. labor market. Initial unemployment claims, a rough measure of redundancies, were rejected by 98,000 to 1 million in …
Read More »WHO cautions on COVID-19 plasma as US issues emergency authorization
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization on Monday was cautious about supporting the use of recovered plasma from COVID-19 patients to treat people who are ill, saying that evidence that it works remains “low quality”, even if the United States emergency authorization for such issued therapies. PHILO PHOTO: Convalescent plasma …
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