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How one Indian company could be world's door to a COVID-19 vaccine
If the world is to gain access to a vaccine for COVID-19, there's a good chance it will pass through the doors of Serum Institute of India.
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Canada to ramp up COVID-19 testing and tracing, recommend digital app
Canada will ramp up COVID-19 testing and contact tracing as it gradually lifts restrictions and is working closely with Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on a mobile phone app to help, the prime minister said on Friday.
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Evofem's gel first non-hormonal contraceptive to get approval in over 30 years
Evofem Biosciences Inc's birth control gel received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval on Friday, making it the first non-hormonal contraceptive for women in over three decades, sending its shares up 3.6%.
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Exclusive: Russian ventilators reached U.S. states without FDA oversight
Russian-made ventilators now under investigation for causing deaths in Russia were not authorized by U.S. health regulators before the same model was sent to New York and New Jersey at the height of their coronavirus outbreaks, Reuters has learned.
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University of Alabama System to push contact tracing app, require online health checks
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France - No daily coronavirus death toll, to be updated on May 25
For the first time since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, French health authorities did not report the daily additional deaths linked to the infection, adding in a statement published on Friday those figures will be updated Monday, May 25.
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South America is a new COVID 'epicentre', African deaths still low: WHO
South America has become a new epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic with Brazil hardest-hit, while cases are rising in some African countries that so far have a relatively low death toll, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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U.S. demands review of WHO's handling of pandemic starts now, seeks reforms
The United States called on the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday to begin work immediately on investigating the source of the novel coronavirus, as well as its handling of the response to the pandemic.
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CanSino coronavirus vaccine appears safe in first human trial
A coronavirus vaccine tested for the first time in humans is safe and induces a rapid immune response, researchers at China's CanSino Biologics Inc reported on Friday in The Lancet medical journal.
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Italy's daily coronavirus death toll dips, new cases steady
Italy recorded 130 new deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic on Friday against 156 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases rose marginally to 652 from 642 on Thursday.
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Human trials of British coronavirus vaccine to reach 10,000
Oxford University and AstraZeneca are recruiting around 10,000 adults and children in Britain for trials of an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a day after receiving U.S. backing worth up to $1.2 billion.
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How migrant worker outbreaks supercharged coronavirus spread in Singapore
Once held up as a role model for its battle against the coronavirus, Singapore has struggled to contain an infection spread centred around foreign worker dormitories, construction sites and factories.
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Spain's coronavirus death toll rises by 56 to 28,628 on Friday
Spain's overnight death toll from the new coronavirus rose by 56 on Friday to a total of 28,628, the health ministry said.
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Sinovac says it has started mid-stage human trials of COVID-19 vaccine
Sinovac Biotech Ltd said on Friday it had started mid-stage human trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine in China earlier this month.
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80 million children at risk of measles, polio as vaccines disrupted: WHO, UNICEF
Some 80 million children worldwide could be at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio due to disruption of routine immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.N. agencies and the GAVI vaccine alliance said on Friday.
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Virus deaths five times higher among poor in Spanish region
The coronavirus mortality rate among some of the poorest Catalans is five times higher than among the wealthiest residents of the Spanish region, a study showed, in the latest evidence of how COVID-19 hits the needy hardest.
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Thailand to extend coronavirus emergency to end of June
Thailand will maintain its state of emergency over the coronavirus until the end of June, its COVID-19 task force said on Friday, in an effort to keep infections under control as the government prepares to ease restrictions further.
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Not 'everything has gone perfectly', says NHS England head of coronavirus lessons
Britain should have learned more from other countries who were tackling coronavirus outbreaks earlier, the head of NHS England Simon Stevens said on Friday, acknowledging that not everything with the response had gone perfectly.
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Children with COVID-19 may have lower infectivity than adults, UK scientists say
Children have milder COVID-19 symptoms than adults and the balance of evidence suggests they may also have lower susceptibility and infectivity than adults, scientists advising the British government have said.
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Putin urges more testing as Russia's coronavirus death toll climbs
President Vladimir Putin told officials on Friday to ramp up testing for the new coronavirus, but said Russia's outbreak was stabilising even as the death toll rose by a record one-day amount.
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