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UK overtakes Italy with Europe's highest official coronavirus death toll

Weekly figures from Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) added more than 7,000 deaths in England and Wales in the week to April 24

May 6, 2020

Coronavirus

Ousted US whistleblower says Trump health official played down coronavirus threat

As per HHS spokeswoman, Bright was transferred to a job where he was entrusted to spend around $1 billion to develop diagnostic testing

May 6, 2020

Coronavirus

Oil prices extend gains on demand hopes as lockdowns ease

Italy, Spain, Nigeria and India, together with Ohio and other US states, started allowing few people to go back to work and opened up construction sites, parks and libraries

May 5, 2020

Coronavirus

Ramping up COVID-19 testing earlier would have helped the UK, top adviser says

Britain has overtaken Italy to report the highest official death toll from the novel coronavirus in Europe with more than 32,000 deaths

May 5, 2020

Coronavirus

Exclusive: Bangladesh's Beximco to begin producing COVID-19 drug remdesivir - COO

Beximco's pricing indicates a course of remdesivir treatment could cost between $295 and $781 per patient in the south Asian country depending on the condition of the patient

May 5, 2020

Coronavirus

Disney announces new Star Wars theatrical film directed by Taika Waititi

Walt Disney on Monday announced that the Oscar-winning screenwriter Taika Waititi will direct a new Star Wars feature movie

May 5, 2020

Biden announces new policy efforts aimed at black voters

The presumptive Democratic candidate for the US election unveiled new policies in his campaign on Monday which involved reducing racial wealth and health gaps

May 5, 2020

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Gold dips as virus-led curbs ease, tariff worries persist

Investors were expecting the US ISM non-manufacturing PMI data, due later in the day, and weekly jobless claims and April non-farm payrolls numbers scheduled for later this week

May 5, 2020

Coronavirus

Taiwan rebuffs WHO, says China has no right to represent it

Taiwan has been lobbying to attend, as an observer in the meeting of the WHO's decision-making body, the World Health Assembly on this month

May 5, 2020

Coronavirus

Malaysia criticises WHO's advice against palm oil during coronavirus

The Southeast Asian country Malaysia, the world's second-biggest producer of palm oil, said such advice was "antiquated"

May 4, 2020

Coronavirus

Australia and New Zealand discuss possible trans-Tasman 'travel bubble'

The neighbouring countries have claimed success in substantially slowing the progress of the coronavirus epidemic to a level well below the UK, US and Europe

May 4, 2020

Coronavirus

Netanyahu fate at stake as coalition deal challenged in top court

Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz signed an agreement last month to form a unity government

May 4, 2020

UK says China has questions to answer over coronavirus outbreak

Donald Trump said on Thursday he was confident that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese virology lab

May 4, 2020

Coronavirus

Trump administration pushing to rip global supply chains from China: officials

Donald Trump, who has stepped up recent attacks on China ahead of the Nov 3 US presidential election, has long pledged to bring manufacturing back from overseas

May 4, 2020

NFL: League on track for full season starting on September 10

Unlike other sports in the US that have shut down due to the coronavirus, the NFL has been able to buy time before making any major decisions

May 4, 2020

White House adviser will not rule out more money for states, small businesses

Over 30 million Americans have joined the unemployment benefit rolls over the past six weeks and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are discussing a fourth coronavirus relief bill

May 4, 2020

Froome unsure if Tour de France organisers can prevent mass gatherings

Froome, one victory away from equalling the record of five tour wins held by a handful of his peers, said that controlling mass gatherings will be difficult

May 4, 2020

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Pompeo says 'significant' evidence that new coronavirus emerged from Chinese lab

Mike Pompeo briefly contradicted a statement issued last Thursday by the top US spy agency that said the virus did not appear to be man-made or genetically modified

May 4, 2020

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Trump says up to 100,000 Americans may die from coronavirus

Trump said he believed that by the end of the year there would be a vaccine against the new Coronavirus

May 4, 2020

Coronavirus

Global coronavirus cases surpass 3.5 million, although rate slowing

Globally, there were 84,004 new cases over the past 24 hours, taking total cases to just over 3.5 million

May 4, 2020

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