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Beijing city reports 2 new confirmed COVID-19 cases
Beijing city government on Friday reported two new confirmed COVID-19 cases, marking the second consecutive day of new infections being reported in the Chinese capital.
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Russia reports 8,987 new coronavirus infection cases
Russia reported on Friday 8,987 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing its nationwide tally of infections to 511,423.
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Thai mom's face shields protect against virus and villains
A single mother in Thailand is doing brisk business out of face shields with characters from cartoons, games and sci-fi movies, hoping to cash in and promote safety for children as her country emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Fears of second U.S. coronavirus wave rise on worrisome spike in cases, hospitalizations
About half a dozen states including Texas and Arizona are grappling with a rising number of coronavirus patients filling hospital beds, fanning concerns that the reopening of the U.S. economy may spark a second wave of infections.
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Thailand to lift curfew, more curbs as 'travel bubbles' targeted
Thailand will lift a nationwide curfew and ease more restrictions next week, a spokesman for its coronavirus task force said on Friday, after the country has reported no local transmissions of the virus for 18 days.
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Australian clot-busting drug holds hope for COVID-19 treatment
An experimental drug developed by an Australian researcher could help prevent deaths from COVID-19 by controlling the formation of blood clots responsible for breathing difficulties, organ failure, stroke and heart attack.
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South Korea to extend virus guidelines on prevention, sanitation
South Korea will extend prevention and sanitation guidelines against the coronavirus until daily new infections drop to single digits, the health minister said on Friday, failing which he warned of a return to tough social distancing measures.
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Australia eliminates coronavirus in many areas, to ease curbs
Australia has eliminated the novel coronavirus in many parts of the country, its chief medical officer said on Friday, clearing the way for sports fans to soon return to stadiums and for foreign students to prepare to fly back to classes.
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India's coronavirus cases reach over 297,000, fourth worst hit nation
India on Friday reported a total of 297,535 coronavirus infections, surpassing the United Kingdom to become the fourth worst affected country in the world.
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Japan's PeptiDream to work with Merck in developing COVID-19 therapies
Japanese drug-discovery company PeptiDream Inc said on Friday it would collaborate with Merck & Co in developing COVID-19 therapies.
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Australia has eliminated COVID-19 in some parts, says chief medical officer
Australia has effectively eliminated COVID-19 in some parts of the country, its chief medical officer said on Friday.
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How a vaccine made of mosquito spit could help stop the next epidemic
Five years ago, in an office complex with a giant sculpture of a mosquito just northwest of Phnom Penh, Jessica Manning struck on a novel idea. Rather than spend more years in what felt like a futile search for a malaria vaccine, she would take on all mosquito-borne pathogens at once.
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Outbreak quashed, China launches test lab spending spree
China is building hundreds of testing laboratories and stocking up on tests to ramp up screening for the coronavirus, even in healthy people, having all-but stamped out local transmission of the disease.
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'This is about livelihoods': U.S. virus hotspots reopen despite second wave specter
Facing budget shortfalls and double-digit unemployment, governors of U.S. states that are COVID-19 hotspots on Thursday pressed ahead with economic reopenings that have raised fears of a second wave of infections.
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Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 258 to 185,674: RKI
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 258 to 185,674, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Friday.
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California startup aims to monitor social distancing and face masks using drones
Airspace Systems, a California startup company that makes drones that can hunt down and capture other drones, on Thursday released new software for monitoring social distancing and face-mask wearing from the air.
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No means to say goodbye: Bolivian brigades gather corpses of poor COVID victims
Most weekdays since the coronavirus broke out in Bolivia, Harvard-educated Luis Fernando Ortiz leaves his job managing the country's biggest freight forwarding agent and dons a hazmat suit to go in search of a body.
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Graves dug in Rio beach to protest handling of COVID-19 pandemic
Brazilians critical of their government's ambiguous response to a surging coronavirus pandemic dug 100 graves and stuck black crosses in the sand of Rio's Copacabana beach on Thursday in a tribute to the nearly 40,000 people who have died so far.
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Brazil passes 800,000 COVID-19 cases, reports more than 40,000 deaths
Brazil reported a cumulative total of 802,828 confirmed cases of coronavirus on Thursday, with 30,412 new infections in the last 24 hours in the world's second worst outbreak after the United States.
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