SEOUL (Reuters) – Five people have died in South Korea after a flu shot last week, officials said, adding that the seasonal inoculation program has been stepped up to address potential COVID-19 complications, raising concerns about vaccine safety. File photo: A health worker attaches a notice to suspend influenza vaccination …
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LONDON – Researchers in the UK are planning the first of its kind to quickly gauge the effectiveness of multiple vaccines against Covid-19 by launching an infection of healthy volunteers with a tightly controlled dose of coronavirus in early 2021. The so-called humanitarian challenge plans target children aged 18 to …
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While the rise in coronavirus infections is forcing U.S. states and European countries to close bars, open-air hospitals and limit social gatherings to small groups of people, such measures are becoming distant memories in most parts of Asia. For months now, life in Asia, where the virus first emerged, has …
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A volunteer is vaccinated on September 24, 2020, at a research center in Florida, USA, at a research center for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Marco Bello | Reuters Healthy, young people in the UK may soon be asked to volunteer for exposure to COVID-19 as part of a group of human …
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Melbourne, Australia Australia After more than 100 days under one of the world’s longest and toughest lockdowns, residents of Australia, Australia’s second-largest city, are struggling to make ends meet – but these conditions reflect the global division on the need for lockdowns to fight the Covid-19 epidemic. Since July, Melbourne …
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