Six months since the new coronavirus outbreakThe pandemic is still far from over, the World Health Organization said Monday, warning that “the worst is yet to come.” Reaching the half-year milestone just like the the death toll exceeded 500,000 and the number of confirmed infections exceeded 10 million, the WHO …
Read More »The finalized “safe list” of travel to the EU will likely exclude the US.
The US is expected to be excluded from a final list of countries whose citizens will be able to enter the European Union (EU) nations again starting in July, according to The Associated Press. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya said on Monday that the list could include some 15 …
Read More »Chinese Military Approves COVID-19 Vaccine for Use in Troops
This is a way to test a new vaccine on millions of people, whether they like it or not. China’s military has approved a COVID-19 vaccine to use on its soldiers, according to the Reuters news agency. The vaccine was developed by the Chinese Army Research Unit and CanSino Biologics, …
Read More »Children more resistant to Covid-19: Lancet study
The majority of children with Covid-19 in 26 countries had good clinical outcomes compared to adults, according to a review of studies that evaluated research published during the first four months of the pandemic. Follow the latest updates on the Covid-19 pandemic here Scientists, including those from the University of …
Read More »Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom explains the new coronavirus tracker
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told CNBC on Monday that the coronavirus tracking website he helped build shows troubling levels of spread in many U.S. states. Epidemiologists use something called R0, or R nothing, as a way to measure how a virus is spreading. For example, an R value of 1 …
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