Pre-clinical vaccines not yet in human trials 139 Phase 1 vaccines in small-scale safety tests 25 Phase 2 faxes in extended security tests 17 Phase 3 vaccines in large-scale effectiveness tests 7 Approved faxes approved for general use 0 Source: WHO. Last updated 11 Aug. Researchers around the world are …
Read More »People should not be afraid of spreading COVID-19 in food, packaging: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence that coronavirus was spread through food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain. PHOTO PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks …
Read More »Novavax delivers 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidate to UK
(Reuters) – US drug developer Novavax Inc said on Friday that the UK would buy 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373. FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled “Vaccine COVID-19” and a medical syringe in this illustration April 10, 2020. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / …
Read More »‘Massive Poisoned Shock’: Scientists fear for lasting impact of Mauritius oil
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Some corals have lived on the fringes of Mauritius for centuries. Now for days smothered in heavy fuel oil spilled from a wrecked Japanese tanker nearby, parts of those reefs could be in trouble. The full impact of the toxic spill is still lacking, scientists say. While …
Read More »Note: What we know about possible COVID-19 transfer of cargo and packages
WELLINGTON / BEIJING (Reuters) – China this week reported several cases of frozen food packaging infected with the novel coronavirus, while New Zealand said it was investigating the possibility that its latest COVID-19 cases could be recovered after imported cargo. PHILO PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel …
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