Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continued coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I am Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is again promoting the supposed benefits of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug, as a treatment for COVID-19, as it again tests positive for the virus. Nearly 13.5 million …
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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, …
Read More »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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Medicago Inc. has been using plants to develop potential vaccines for more than two decades. A new partnership with GlaxoSmithKline Plc. Testing its unproven technology against the new coronavirus is bringing Canadian biotechnology to the limelight. The Quebec City-based company administered the first humans with its experimental Covid-19 vaccine on …
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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. FILE PHOTO: The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, attends a press conference organized by the Geneva …
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