Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s ongoing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I’m Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur. Australia has signed a deal to secure supplies of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca would have to pass the clinical trial. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has also …
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GENEVA / MANILA (Reuters) – Nations that may preserve COVID-19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic, Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, issuing a final closes call for countries to participate in a global vaccine pact. The WHO has an August …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – An increasingly common mutation of the new coronavirus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more infectious, but appears less deadly, according to a prominent doctor of infectious diseases. PHILO PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was …
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GENEVA / MANILA (Reuters) – Nations that may preserve COVID-19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic, Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, issuing a final closes call for countries to participate in a global vaccine pact. The WHO has an August …
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The spread of the novel coronavirus is increasingly being driven by people in their 20s, 30s and 40s who are unaware that they are infected because they have no or mild symptoms, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Because many people in this age group are asymptomatic or have …
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