London (AP) – On March 4, 2020, when there were only 84 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the UK, Professor Sharon Peacock acknowledged that the country needed to increase its capacity to analyze the genetic makeup of the virus. Microbiologists at the University of Cambridge understood that genomic sequencing would …
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File photo: AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine vial prepared during vaccination of teachers and nursery teachers, amid outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Germany, March 5, 2021. Rears / Fabian Beamer / File photo NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s (WHO) program to deliver coronavirus vaccines to poor countries is …
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Suez, Egypt (AP) – A huge container ship got stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Saturday for the fifth day in a row as authorities prepare to free the ship and reopen the crucial East-West waterway for new global shipping. Evergave the Panama-flagged cargo ship between Asia and Europe on …
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PARIS (AP) – France’s president says he has no regrets about refusing to impose a third national lockdown earlier this year, despite the fact that the country’s hospitals are being infected with the acute coronavirus and more than a thousand people die every week. President Emanuel Macron’s government has stressed …
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(Reuters) – The rollout of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, much of the world’s disease, depends on defeating the epidemic, with India suspending vaccine exports on Thursday and Europe discussing its own export restrictions. India has temporarily seized all major vaccine exports from the Anglo-Swedish company’s India Serum Institute (SII), the world’s …
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