WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealanders rallied on Wednesday to share essentials as the country’s largest city was ready to go into lockdown again, following new cases of the coronavirus running a 102-day record run terminated without new infections. PHOTO PHOTO: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at a joint …
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FILE PHOTO: A dentist sues a patient at Silveroaks Dental Surgery as it opens for non-aerosol-generating assessments in Milton Keynes, following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, Milton Keynes, UK, June 8, 2020. REUTERS / Andrew Boyers / File photo GENEVA (Reuters) – Dental patients and staff need to be …
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealanders rallied on Wednesday to share essentials as the country’s largest city was ready to go into lockdown again, following new cases of the coronavirus running a 102-day record run terminated without new infections. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced last night that she would expel Auckland …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of Health Alex Azar on Tuesday responded to China’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying that if such an outbreak had occurred in Taiwan like the United States, it could ‘be easily sniffed out’. The Trump administration has repeatedly criticized Beijing for trying to crack …
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US President Donald Trump will speak to the press at the White House Brady Briefing Room in Washington, DC on August 10, 2020. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. government will purchase 100 million doses of Moderna’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, which …
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