1:00 am BST01:00 Brazil confirms 39,483 new cases, as Bolsonaro says he may have had Covid-19 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday that he could have contracted the new coronavirus previously and could do another test to detect the disease, having already tested negative for the virus several times before. …
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The International Monetary Fund has said the world economy will take a hit of $ 12 trillion (£ 9.6 trillion) from the Covid-19 pandemic after cutting its already bleak growth projections for the UK and other developed countries in 2020. The IMF said it would take two years for world …
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Men who have recovered from Covid-19 are asked to donate plasma for use in treating sick patients in the trials because they have higher levels of antibodies to the virus in their blood than women. Convalescent plasma is being tested worldwide as a possible treatment for the disease. It contains …
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“> Arne Akbar, professor of immunology at UCL and president of the British Society for Immunology, said scientists had to figure out what goes wrong with the immune system as people age. “One thing that is evident, even in healthy older people, is that there is more inflammation throughout the …
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A Brazilian judge ordered Jair Bolsonaro to rectify his behavior “at the most disrespectful” by wearing a face mask when driving in the capital, Brasilia. The President has sparked outrage by repeatedly ignoring measures designed to slow the spread of a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 50,000 Brazilians. …
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