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Italy's COVID-19 death toll exceeds 20,000, minor breaches to lockdown over Easter

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 20,465 lives in locked-down Italy as of Monday, bringing the total number of infections, fatalities and recoveries to 159,516, according to latest data released

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Fauci says ‘rolling reentry’ of US economy possible in May

New cases of the coronavirus are certain to arise when restrictions imposed to limit the spread of the virus are eased, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disea

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Too early to say China is source of COVID-19: Cambridge geneticist

04:43 A lot of people online are blaming China for bring about the coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic across the world.But the logic behind their blame can be fragile, as it

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Most coronavirus clinical trials are being done in China: U.S. data

Open records on ClinicalTrials.gov showed that China is leading the research on coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 global outbreak.The database, maintained by U.S. National Institutes of Health (NI

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Preventive measures a must to prevent second coronavirus wave in China

China is at risk of a second wave of coronavirus outbreak as it gradually eases restrictions while handling a large number of arrivals from foreign countries, warned a study on Thursday.Aggressive

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Vaccine boost as scientists find virus has 'low shielding'

Experts say it means there are "fewer obstacles for the immune system to neutralise the virus with antibodies".

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CDC removes unusual guidance to doctors about drugs promoted by Trump

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed from its website highly unusual guidance informing doctors on how to prescribe hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs aggre

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Will COVID-19 lead to a global food crisis?

02:00 As the COVID-19 pandemic ripples across the globe, the UN World Food Program recently warned of security problems in the near future.Dr. Maximo Torero, Chief Economist Assistant

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Pandemic watch: Second potential COVID-19 vaccine in U.S. starts safety test

A second U.S. company has begun safety tests for a vaccine against COVID-19.The Phase 1 study will enroll up to 40 healthy adult volunteers in Philadelphia and Kansas City, where screening of potentia

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COVID-19 peak death rate in Europe to occur in late April: report

New COVID-19 estimates find that the peak daily death rate from the pandemic will occur during the third week of April among European countries. The new forecasts, rel

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Trump threatens to stop WHO funding as NY deaths pass 9/11 fatalities

Dr. Charles Robertson, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center shows the simple "last resort" ventilator he and a group of pediatric nurses and

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Navy boss resigns amid uproar over firing of ship captain

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday, bringing to a climax an extraordinary drama that he advanced by delivering a profanity-laced upbraiding of the offi

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A payments provider for paying court fines and utility bills exposed years of transactions

A payments processor used by local governments to collect court fines and utility bill payments from residents across Arkansas and Oklahoma mistakenly left a cache of data, representing years of trans

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CyberMDX raises $20M to help improve medical device security

Healthcare security startup CyberMDX has raised $20 million in its latest round of fundraising, the company confirmed Tuesday.The New York-based security company works primarily to secure medical devi

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China urges U.S. not to associate South China Sea with pandemic

China reiterated its legitimate claim to the South China Sea Tuesday, condemning the U.S. for associating the issue with the COVID-19 pandemic, Zhao Lijian, spokesperso

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China and America should 'seize the hour' to reshape ties

Editor's note: Chen Guifang is a researcher at Hong Kong Baptist University. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN.Forty-nine years ago today, on April 6

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WHO evaluating use of medical, non-medical masks for COVID-19 more widely

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said here on Monday that the WHO has been evaluating the use of medical and non-medical masks for COVID-19 more widely, a