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Britain has Europe's second highest COVID-19 death toll, new figures show
Britain now has Europe's second highest official COVID-19 death toll with more than 26,000, according to figures published on Wednesday that raised questions about Prime Minister Boris Johnson's response to the outbreak.
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UK envoy in Washington backs probe into origins of pandemic, WHO reforms
Britain's ambassador to the United States on Wednesday backed calls for an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus and the response of the World Health Organization, but said the first priority should be containing the outbreak.
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Most Americans cannot or will not use COVID-19 contact tracing apps: poll
More than half of all Americans either do not own smartphones or would not use apps backed by Alphabet Inc's Google and Apple Inc to trace who has been exposed to the new coronavirus, according to a poll by the Washington Post and University of Maryland released on Wednesday.
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UK has Europe's second-highest COVID-19 death toll, new figures show
The United Kingdom now has Europe's second-highest official death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to new figures on Wednesday that cover fatalities in all settings, including in nursing homes.
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France coronavirus death toll climbs above 24,000
The number of people who have died from coronavirus infection in France rose by 427 to 24,087 on Wednesday, while hospitalizations for the disease and people in ICU units continued to decline, the health ministry said in a statement.
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Gilead says remdesivir shows improvement in COVID-19 patients when used early
Gilead Sciences Inc on Wednesday said its experimental antiviral drug remdesivir helped improve outcomes for patients with COVID-19, and provided data suggesting it worked better when given earlier in the course of infection.
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UK will have to wait for excess death statistics for clearer COVID-19 picture: health official
Figures for the number of excess deaths in Britain as a result of the coronavirus crisis will provide a clearer picture of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic but might not be available for a while, England's deputy Chief Medical Officer said on Wednesday.
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'Test and trace' has worked for us, Ghana's president says
A rigorous programme of testing for coronavirus and tracing the contacts of those found positive has helped Ghana avoid an explosion in cases that could have overwhelmed its health system, President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Wednesday.
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The last places on earth without the coronavirus
Despite infecting more than 3 million people around the world, there are still 33 countries and territories that have yet to report a single case of the novel coronavirus.
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WHO says it acted 'quickly and decisively' on new coronavirus
The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) defended the agency's record in its response to the new coronavirus in a news briefing on Wednesday, saying it had acted "quickly and decisively".
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Scientists urge Germans to keep social distancing discipline
Germans must persevere with social distancing or risk exponential growth in the number of coronavirus cases, four leading science institutes said on Wednesday.
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Italy's daily coronavirus death toll falls, new cases stable
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 323 on Wednesday, against 382 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new infections stood at 2,086, broadly stable from 2,091 on Tuesday.
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Yemen records multiple coronavirus cases for the first time; U.N. fears more
Yemeni authorities reported multiple coronavirus infections for the first time on Wednesday, after the United Nations said it feared the disease could be spreading undetected in a country where millions are already facing famine.
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China trial shows Gilead's drug does not show benefits in COVID-19 patients: Lancet
Gilead Sciences Inc's experimental drug remdesivir does not speed up recovery from COVID-19 compared with placebo in critically-ill, hospitalised patients, according to data from a trial in China published in the Lancet.
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Canada's coronavirus outbreak slows as cases top 50,000, but long fight looms
Canadian hospitals had beds to spare as the country hit 50,373 confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday, and several provinces were relaxing public health measures, but health experts were already worrying about a future wave of infections.
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Labs see bottlenecks in France's plan to scale-up COVID-19 testing
The leaders of two federations representing thousands of private laboratories across France cast doubt on the country's ability to more than double coronavirus testing before the country begins unwinding its lockdown on May 11.
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India's Serum Institute to make millions of potential coronavirus vaccine doses
The Serum Institute of India said on Tuesday it plans this year to produce up to 60 million doses of a potential vaccine against the new coronavirus that is under clinical trial in Britain.
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UK death toll 27,241, opposition Labour leader Starmer says
The United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll is probably higher than 27,241, making it one of the worst-hit countries in Europe, opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said on Wednesday as he questioned the government's response to the outbreak.
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Sweden’s sweet tooth turns sour as coronavirus stirs hygiene fears
(This April 28 story corrects to show 1.8 billion SEK for 2019 is group revenue, not Sweden only, in paragraph 8)
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GSK boss does not see mass-produced coronavirus vaccine before mid-2021
GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest vaccine maker, said the global push to develop an immunisation against the coronavirus would not lead to widely available products before the second half of next year.
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