FILE PHOTO: Traders Wear Masks While Working on the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Continues in the Manhattan District of New York, USA, May 28 2020. REUTERS / Lucas Jackson / File Photo (Reuters) – Stock markets and other risky assets …
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The researchers say the reward would be enormous. If 95% of Americans wore face masks in public, it could prevent 33,000 deaths by Oct. 1, according to the University of Washington Institute for Health Assessment and Measurement. So why has the orientation about face masks changed since the pandemic started? …
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Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, regional director of the World Health Organization for Africa, said the announcement was made after no new cases were reported 42 days after the last survivor tested negative for the virus. “It was not easy and sometimes it seemed like an impossible mission,” said Moeti. Some 16,000 …
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