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UK moves closer to infect healthy people with Covid-19 to aid vaccine effortsSubscriber Only
October 13, 2020 12:16 IST
Such studies may help speed development of vaccines and give scientists new insights into a disease that has spread to more than 37 million people globally, but would expose participants to a threat for which there’s no cure.
First, a vaccine approval. Then ‘chaos and confusion’Subscriber Only
October 13, 2020 10:24 IST
The first vaccines may provide only moderate protection, low enough to make it prudent to keep wearing a mask. By next spring or summer, there may be several of these so-so vaccines, without a clear sense of how to choose from among them.
Donald Trump tests negative for virus, isn’t infectious, says doctorSubscriber Only
October 13, 2020 08:40 IST
Trump was tested using an antigen test, according to the doctor’s memo, which are considered to be less accurate than molecular tests.
Johnson & Johnson pauses Covid-19 vaccine trials due to unexplained illness in participant
October 13, 2020 15:48 IST
The participant's illness is being reviewed and evaluated by an independent data and safety monitoring board as well as the company's clinical and safety physicians, Johnson and Johnson said in a statement.
China’s Qingdao orders to test 9 million after fresh Covid-19 outbreak
October 12, 2020 19:34 IST
China's Qingdao city reported six new COVID-19 cases and six asymptomatic cases as of late Oct. 11. Most of the cases were linked to the Qingdao Chest Hospital.
Johnson set to tighten UK restrictions as virus cases mountSubscriber Only
October 12, 2020 07:30 IST
The premier will unveil plans to divide England into areas of “medium,” “high” and “very high” alert, with the levels determining the extent of restrictions imposed.
Trump official says vaccine expected starting in JanuarySubscriber Only
October 10, 2020 11:16 IST
Kadlec is the Department of Health and Human Services' assistant secretary of preparedness and response. HHS says a vaccine could be approved before the end of the year but will take time to distribute.
Novel coronavirus can survive on skin for 9 hours: Study
October 9, 2020 20:06 IST
The finding underscores the importance of handwashing or using a sanitiser to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Dual flu-covid nasal spray vaccine to start trial in Hong KongSubscriber Only
October 9, 2020 14:51 IST
Research on the experimental spray received funding from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations in Norway and Hong Kong’s government, and will join dozens of clinical trials around the world aimed at identifying safe and effective vaccines to prevent Covid-19.
Notre Dame’s president faces an angry campus after getting the coronavirusSubscriber Only
October 8, 2020 10:08 IST
Students have petitioned for his resignation, angry over what they consider his hypocrisy as well as the rising tide of infections on campus. Others have reported him to a coronavirus hotline for violating his own mask mandate.
Anxious for a lifeline, the US economy is left to sink or swimSubscriber Only
October 8, 2020 09:58 IST
American households and businesses have gone two months without the enhanced unemployment benefits, low-interest loans and other programs that helped prop up the economy in the spring.
New Zealand stamps out Covid-19 for a second timeSubscriber Only
October 8, 2020 13:06 IST
Now, after a second round of strict lockdown, the country believes — if a bit more tentatively this time — that it has effectively stamped out the virus once again.
Curfew extended in several areas in Sri Lanka after COVID-19 cluster detected
October 7, 2020 11:54 IST
The Ministry of Health on Tuesday prohibited public gatherings until further notice. Public service institutions have been asked to impose strict COVID-19 measures to restrict the spread of the virus.
In reversal, White House approves stricter guidelines for vaccine makersSubscriber Only
October 7, 2020 09:32 IST
On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump acknowledged in a tweet that the new guidelines would make vaccine authorization before Nov. 3 unlikely. “Just another political hit job!” he said, tagging Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, the FDA commissioner.
Trump may have COVID, but many of his supporters still scoff at masksSubscriber Only
October 7, 2020 09:23 IST
On the day that President Donald Trump defiantly left the hospital and returned to a White House that appears to be one of Washington’s most contagious hot spots, backers of the president in rural Pennsylvania showed no signs of questioning their own defiance of experts’ advice on how to limit the virus’s spread.
Scientists call for better public health guidance about how coronavirus spreads in air
October 6, 2020 14:13 IST
Viruses in aerosols can remain suspended in air for many seconds to hours, like smoke, and be inhaled, the scientists noted in the letter.
Covid-19 making a dangerous comeback in most parts of USSubscriber Only
October 6, 2020 16:59 IST
In 34 states, the seven-day average of new cases is higher now than it was a month ago. Although the virus has waned in populous states including California and Florida, it is wreaking unprecedented havoc in the Midwest and making an incipient return in parts of the Northeast.
Nearly one-third of Covid-19 patients in study had altered mental stateSubscriber Only
October 6, 2020 09:33 IST
Patients with altered mental function — the medical term is encephalopathy — were also nearly seven times as likely to die as those who did not have that type of problem.
Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam says covid curbs to remain ‘for some time’Subscriber Only
October 6, 2020 08:39 IST
Lam argued that there was still evidence of silent pockets of infection, since more than half of the cases discovered since Sept. 30 were of unknown origin. She didn’t provide any time frame for lifting the outbreak-control measures, which were set to expire Thursday.
White House to sharply limit access to Donald Trump after his returnSubscriber Only
October 6, 2020 07:48 IST
The White House is creating additional room for Trump to work in the residence, and avoid heading into the Oval Office, by converting the Map Room and Diplomatic Reception Room into office space, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Trump trip from hospital to wave at fans endangers others, doctor warns
October 5, 2020 09:09 IST
Criticism of the ride was swift, including from an attending physician at Walter Reed.
Johnson warns angry Britons of ‘tough winter’ in Covid battleSubscriber Only
October 5, 2020 07:45 IST
Johnson’s message was aimed at trying to persuade the public of the difficulty of his task -- to strike a balance between suppressing the virus, as new cases rise, while keeping the economy open to save jobs.
Indonesia’s Jokowi calls for balance between lockdown, economySubscriber Only
October 4, 2020 13:38 IST
The new policy should be more targeted and specific than current large-scale social restrictions, the president said in a statement streamed by his office on YouTube, without providing details of the plan.
COVID-19 vaccine roll-out expected in less than 3 months in UK: Report
October 3, 2020 08:44 IST
A full COVID-19 immunization programme, which would exclude children, could be quicker than experts predicted, the Times said, adding that health officials estimate that every adult could receive a dose of the vaccine within six months.
Maybe too soon to rule out hydroxychloroquine; tricking the immune system
October 3, 2020 08:38 IST
When data from five of those trials were combined, researchers found that early use of the drug by people who were not hospitalised yielded a statistically significant 24% reduction in risk of infection, hospitalisation or death.
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