A coronavirus antibody test that requires only a finger prick, takes just 20 minutes for a result and is virtually 100% accurate, could be available by the end of the year, says the developer. The UK Rapid Testing Consortium, made up of the University of Oxford and several British diagnostic …
Read More »Coronavirus cases in India cross the million threshold
NEW DELHI – India crossed 1 million cases of coronavirus on Friday, third only to the United States and Brazil, raising concerns about its readiness to face an inevitable surge that could overwhelm hospitals and test the country’s weak health system. An increase of 34,956 new cases in the last …
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 »England to allow indoor concerts starting next month, says prime minister
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that concerts and indoor performances will begin in England from August 1 Billboard Reports and UK Secretary of Culture Oliver Dowden confirmed in a tweet. The plan marks phase four of England’s five-stage reopening strategy for live events. Social distancing will prevail in …
Read More »Fauci supports New York as a model to fight the coronavirus: “They did it correctly”
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, attends the daily coronavirus briefing in the Brady Press Press Room at the White House on April 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Unemployment claims in the United States have approached 17 million in the past three weeks …
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