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Juganu begins selling its tunable lighting system for pathogen disinfection and deactivation in the US

Juganu, the venture-backed Israeli company that makes lighting systems capable of emitting light at specified wavelengths, is now selling a product that it claims can disinfect surfaces and deactivate

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'The world has had enough': Donald Trump campaign website hacked

Trump's communications director said there was no exposure to sensitive data and the site has been restored.

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Merkel reinforces appeal to reduce contacts as German infections rise

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday reinforced a message to Germans to curb social contacts and keep travel to a minimum as coronavirus infections continued to rise.In

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France reports more than one million confirmed coronavirus cases

A customer wearing a protective mask queues in front of a supermarket in Paris, France. /Getty Images France on Friday became the second western European country to record more than one millio

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Italy reports more than 19,000 new coronavirus cases

Health workers transfer a COVID-19 patient in Italy. /VCG Image Italyon Friday reported 19,143 new confirmed coronavirus infections, another daily record.The figure is an increase of more than

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The smart speaker market is expected grow 21% next year

New numbers from Canalys point to a strong growth in smart speaker shipments in Mainland China this year. The market is on track to grow 2020, having gotten the COVID-19 pandemic mostly under control

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Spain becomes first western Europe nation to hit 1 million virus cases

FILE PHOTO: People lined up to enter a store in Madrid, Spain. /VCG Image Spain on Wednesday became the first country in western Europe to report more than one million confirmed COVID-19 infec

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Second wave of COVID-19 in Europe

Europe is facing a second wave of COVID-19, but this time around, some cities are resisting virus restrictions. Cities in the UK, France, Spain and other countries are a

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Living coronavirus found on frozen food packaging in Qingdao

Screenshot via China CDCThe Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday confirmed the detection and isolation of living novel coronavirus on the

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Preliminary results show Chinese COVID-19 vaccine safe: The Lancet

A Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidate based on the inactivated whole SARS-CoV-2 virus is safe and elicits an antibody response, according to findings from a small early-phase randomized clinical tr

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Kenya reports 437 new COVID-19 cases, total tally jumps to 43,580

VCG Photo Kenya on Friday reported 437 new COVID-19 cases, pushing its total tally up to 43,580.The East African nation continues to see an upward spike in daily new cases, having further ease

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Philippines' lower chamber of congress approves proposed 2021 budget to help fight COVID-19

MANILA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The House of Representatives of the Philippines on Friday approved the proposed a 4.5-trillion-peso (92-billion-U.S. dollar) national budget for 2021 to assist the country

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Qingdao health authorities identify source of latest COVID-19 cluster

The COVID-19 cluster in east China's port city of Qingdao originated in two port workers who stayed at the same hospital, the local health commission declared on Friday

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Polish PM announces nationwide partial lockdown amid record virus surge

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday announced a nationwide partial lockdown following a record spike in coronavirus cases.Poland reported nearly 9,000

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Africa's COVID-19 cases near 1.6M mark as death toll hits 38,868

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker checks the temperature of a local resident during a regional health screening program in Rustenburg, South Africa. /Getty Images The total number of confirmed COVI

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Kenya plans mass COVID-19 testing in Nairobi as cases rise

VCG Photo The Kenyan government has announced plans to conduct mass testing across the capital Nairobi, this weekend.The testing drive comes as Kenya has seen a recent spike in new cases, afte

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Trump tests negative for COVID-19 as he resumes campaigning in Florida

White House physician Sean Conley said on Monday that President Donald Trump has tested negative for COVID-19 as Trump headed to Florida for his first campaign rally si