A man passes a sign at the Ast Strazeneca site in Castlesfield, McLeans, Central England. Phil Noble | Reuters LONDON – Government ministers and experts in Britain have openly endorsed the coronavirus vaccine from AstraZeneca and Oxford University, following this week’s U.S. Home Secretary Robert Genrick became the latest in …
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A man wearing a face mask waits for a train at the Central Train Station during the COVID-19 epidemic in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, on November 3, 2020. Wei Zhuichao | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images LONDON – A global study of more than 12,000 coronavirus mutations has found …
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SINGAPORE – Top manufacturing, the world’s largest medical glove manufacturer, has shut down 20 manufacturing sites in Malaysia after thousands of workers tested positive for Covid-19. As of Wednesday, a total of 2,684 top glove employees – most of them foreign workers – had tested positive, local media quoted senior …
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A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) inserts a Covid-19 test tube into a compartment at a drive-thru test site at Alemani Farmers Market in San Francisco, California, USA, on Thursday, November 19, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The FDA on Wednesday authorized one of …
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Pharmaceutical giant Merck said it plans to acquire privately held Oncoimmune for 42 5,425 million in cash, which would entitle the under-the-radar drug, which has shown shocking results for hospitalized patients with Covid-19. In a phase-by-clinical study in late September, a drug called CD24FC was shown to reduce the risk …
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