COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus and floods destroy China’s Dragon Boat Festival holiday plans
China’s tourism revenues slumped by nearly 70 per cent during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival, as people shunned trips amid a new wave of coronavirus infections in the north and…
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Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
CDC recommends that people wear cloth face coverings in public settings when around people outside of their household, especially when other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain. Cloth face coverings…
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About Masks
A mask may not protect the wearer, but it may keep the wearer from spreading the virus to others. COVID-19 spreads mainly from person to person through respiratory droplets produced…
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Use of Masks to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19
Links with this icon indicate that you are leaving the CDC website. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. Linking…
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Coronavirus: China’s industrial firm profits increase for the first time in May
Profits at China’s big industrial firms increased in May for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak as China’s economy shows signs of recovery.In May, the profits of industrial firms…
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‘Inhuman’: outrage in India after coronavirus victim’s body moved with excavator
Two local administration officials in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh were suspended after images of an earth mover being used to transport the body of a Covid-19 patient…
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US tops 2.5 million coronavirus cases as infections surge in Florida
The United States has surpassed 2.5 million coronavirus cases, as efforts to reopen the world’s economic powerhouse were dramatically set back by a surge of new infections in states such…
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Brazil strikes US$127 million deal to produce Oxford University Covid-19 test vaccine
Brazil said Saturday it had reached a deal to produce up to 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University, which the country is helping to…
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Coronavirus US: New York sees steady decline in cases and deaths as other states face rapid rises – live
Florida has broken its one-day record for new coronavirus infections for a second straight day with an additional 9,636 positive cases, the state’s department of health said on Saturday. There…
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Since day one, Donald Trump has been an autocrat in the making
One of Trump’s three rallying cries on the campaign trail – one of the three apparent components of making America great again – was “Drain the swamp” (the other two…