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As the United States fights 60,000 new cases a day, England and France, facing just 500, impose new mask restrictions nationwide

TOPLINE Facing around 500 new infections each day, England and France announced new nationwide mask mandates on Tuesday to curb minor resurgences of the virus, highlighting a marked difference in approach from the significantly hardest hit United States, whose leaders have reprimanded strongly the need for a national requirement despite …

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Covid-19 test results often take more than a week

Cars line up for the covid-19 tests at the Miami Beach Convention Center on July 13, 2020 in Miami Beach, Florida. Photo: Joe Raedle (fake pictures) Quest Diagnostics, the largest private medical testing company in the United States, released a letter about Monday noting that the average wait time for …

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WHO warns that the coronavirus crisis can get worse and worse

GENEVA / ZURICH (Reuters) – The new worldwide coronavirus pandemic will worsen if countries fail to comply with strict health precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday. A community health officer helps sanitation workers don personal protective equipment (PPE) at the Fourah Bay College Coronavirus Treatment Center in Freetown, …

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