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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Suez, Egypt (AP) – Two additional tugboats were heading to Egypt’s Suez Canal on Sunday in an effort to free a skyscraper-shaped vessel stranded for days on a crucial waterway, though larger ships could take their boat out of the wreck. Is. Even longer to free. The Panama-flag-waving Evergave, owned …
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Lawyers in Seattle and San Francisco have accused men of hate crimes in separate incidents, with authorities saying people of Asian descent have been targeted amid high-profile and sometimes deadly violence against Asian Americans since the epidemic began. Hundreds of protesters marched on the streets of …
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Bill Griffin has been waiting more than a year for this moment: given a new vaccine, he met his 3-year-old granddaughter for the first time since the outbreak began. “She came running. I picked it up and gave it a hug. It was amazing, ”the 70-year-old …
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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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