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Reading Time: < 1 minutePope Francis in his Christmas message said political and business leaders must not allow market forces and patent laws to take priority…
California is at the breaking point: COVID-19 patients in ambulances are waiting EIGHT HOURS before entering ERs as ICUs run out of capacity
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHospitals in Southern California are so overrun by COVID-19 cases that doctors are running low on supplies of oxygen, infected patients are…
France discovers first case of new coronavirus variant in man who arrived from London
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrance has reported the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus variant. Read More
New antibody treatment which aims to prevent infection after Covid-19 exposure being trialled in UK
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new antibody treatment which could give people immediate protection after being exposed to coronavirus is being trialled in the UK. Read More
COVID-19 second wave: 20 doctors died in one week – NMA cries out
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) says, no fewer than 20 doctors have died of Coronavirus in the country in the last one…
The volunteers who are DELIBERATELY catching Covid: 2,500 Britons will take part in the world's first 'human challenge trials' run by Imperial College next month in bid to accelerate research on pandemic
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAround 2,500 Britons will deliberately be infected with coronavirus in the world’s first ‘human challenge trials’ which will begin next month Read More
Britain's biggest coronavirus testing lab is hit by Covid outbreak
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe UK’s largest testing lab has been hit with an outbreak of coronavirus after staff members claimed it failed to follow safety…
Quack cure or Covid hope? Six things you can buy in the shops that scientists believe could protect against severe coronavirus infection
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA vaccine is being rolled out and potential treatments are being trialled to see if they can cure Covid, Read More
Fast-spreading UK coronavirus variant: All your questions answered
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA scary new strain of coronavirus, innocuously named B.1.1.7, has recently exploded across southeast England, Read More
Scientist warns there are 'no guarantees' that vaccines will work on new South African strain: Final flight from mutant-virus stricken Johannesburg touches down hours before travel ban
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe final flight from South Africa to England touched down this morning, hours before a travel ban kicked in after the discovery…