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Karnataka govt raises Ayush doctors' salary for six months amid COVID-19

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Government on Tuesday decided to increase the salaries of Ayush doctors for the next six months.The decision was taken in the Task Force Committee meeting chaired by Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Tuesday."Ayush doctors to get ₹48,000 monthly salary, MBBS doctors to get ₹80,000 and nurses to get ₹30,000 monthly salary for the next six months," Dr K Sudhakar said.Apart from that, four lakh antigen test kits and five lakh swab test kits would be purchased to ramp up testing in the state."As many as 16 RT-PCR and 15 Automated RNA extraction units will be established to ramp up testing.

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Prince Harry Talks Helping The Tourism Industry Recover Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Announces ‘Travalyst’ Global Summit

Prince Harry’s eco-friendly travel venture just announced a Global Summit, happening July 30.

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Mint Lite | Delhi covid cases, Linkedin job cuts, IPL 2020 & other news

25% of Delhi has covid-19Nearly a quarter of Delhi residents may have been infected by the novel coronavirus, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday, citing results of a serological-prevalence study by the National Centre for Disease Control. The study showed 23.48% of the 21,387 people surveyed had developed Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies, indicating they had been exposed to the SARS-Cov2 virus.

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B.C. care home at centre of COVID-19 outbreak was also target of hoax

COVID-19 community outbreak in Canada.The Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver was home to the first of the 8,796 Canadians who have, to date, lost their lives to the novel coronavirus.In those early days, when staff were still learning about the virus and scrambling to change their way of working, they received a phone call.In a release, staff say the call “appeared to originate from health authorities” but do not provide any more details about what the person said. However, the call “deeply alarmed” the staff and the facility say it took “immediate action” out of concern for the safety of the residents.

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Waterloo Region reports 6 new coronavirus cases, as active cases rise to 53

coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the area’s total to 1,366.Tuesday’s case number marks the largest increase in cases within a 24-hour period since July 1, when nine new cases were confirmed. Poll shows parents want students to wear masks at school in fall The death toll at 119 in Waterloo Region remains unchanged from Monday.

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New Jersey expands quarantine advisory list to 31 total states

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Edwin J. Torres/Governor’s Office)TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey has once again expanded the list of states from which travelers will are asked to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the Garden State.The travel advisory, which now includes 31 total states, applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents or a 10% or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average.The states added on Tuesday include Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Virginia, and Washington.“It is critically important that all New Jerseyans remain committed to beating COVID-19 by remaining vigilant and continuing our collective

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Coronavirus: 1 case, 2 recoveries reported by London-Middlesex health officials

coronavirus, while two people have recovered, officials with the Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) reported Tuesday.The update brings the total number of confirmed cases in the region to 647, of which 578 people have recovered and 57 have died. No deaths have been reported since June 12.The new case was reported in London and involves a person in their 30s, health unit data shows.

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Covid-19 stimulus tames EM bond yields

MUMBAI : Quantitative easing (QE) measures, or long-term asset purchases, were heavily used by central banks as a stimulus measure after the financial crisis of 2008. Covid-19 has prompted central banks to take similar decisions again.

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1,349 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi; recovery rate stands at 84.83%

NEW DELHI : Delhi reported 1,349 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours taking the total count of cases to 1,25,096.A health bulletin by Delhi Government said there are 15,288 active cases in the metropolis.It said that 27 more patients succumbed to the disease taking the death toll due to the disease to 3,690. The bulletin said that 1,200 patients have recovered or have been discharged in the last 24 hours and the cumulative figure now is 1,06,118.The recovery rate in the national capital stands at 84.83 per cent while the fatality rate stands at 2.95 per cent.The bulletin said that 5,651 RTPCR/CBNAAT/TrueNat tests and 15,201 rapid antigen tests were conducted on Tuesday and 8,51,311 tests have been done so far.

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Will Oxford COVID-19 vaccine be available by year-end? Read what developers say

COVID-19 vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but there is no certainty, the lead developer of the vaccine said on Tuesday.The experimental vaccine, which has been licensed to AstraZeneca , produced an immune response in early-stage clinical trials, data showed on Monday, preserving hopes it could be in use by the end of 2020."The end of the year target for getting vaccine roll-out, it's a possibility but there's absolutely no certainty about that because we need three things to happen," Sarah Gilbert told BBC Radio.She said it needed to be shown to work in late-stage trials, there needed to be large quantities manufactured, and regulators had to agree quickly to license it for emergency use before large numbers of people

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Covid-19: Post 7-day lockdown, night curfew and Sunday shutdown to continue in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Lockdown on Sundays and night curfew in Bengaluru will continue, though the latter has been reduced by an hour, according to guidelines issued by the Karnataka government on Monday.The guidelines come a day before the week-long lockdown in Bengaluru will be relaxed to allow businesses and other activities to resume in India’s technology capital and other parts of the state.“The night curfew will be in effect from 9 pm to 5 am," According to an order by T.M.Vijay Bhaskar, the state’s chief secretary on Monday.

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Covid-19: DoT relaxes work from home rules for IT sector till 31 December

New Delhi: In wake of pandemic, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Tuesday extended till 31 December the relaxation in work from home (WFH) norms for other service providers (OSPs), including the IT sector.

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Larkhall Covid-19 Rainbows help thousands during coronavirus crisis

Larkhall as well. The Covid-19 Larkhall Rainbows were formed to support people in Larkhall, Ashgill and Netherburn.

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36 more cases of Covid-19 diagnosed, no new deaths

No new deaths from Covid-19 have occurred today but 36 new cases have been diagnosed.

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Coronavirus: MPs should prepare for remote voting outside Ottawa, committee says

House of Commons works says the chamber should spend the summer getting ready for MPs to participate and vote from outside Ottawa.The group said in a report released Tuesday that COVID-19 will likely make it too dangerous for MPs to gather in large numbers when the Commons is due to resume its regular business in September, especially for those who need to travel long distances.The committee wants to take the videoconferencing system MPs have been using for meetings for the last several months and add a secure voting system, so more normal business can go on, with some MPs physically in Parliament and some not.Since the House of Commons broke up as the COVID-19 pandemic hit Canada in March, it’s used two main meeting formats.One is a

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Montreal’s Just for Laughs festival moving online this fall due to COVID-19

coronavirus pandemic.The Just for Laughs Group announced on Monday that the Just for Laughs festival and Juste pour rire, its French counterpart, will unfold online with “numerous free offerings” for virtual festival-goers.“Just for Laughs will be 100 per cent virtual, and Juste pour rire will be a hybrid of in-person, pre-recorded and virtual performances,” the organization said in a statement.The Montreal-based festival was initially postponed in April and moved to the fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many other events have also been cancelled in the city, which is the epicentre of the virus’s outbreak in Canada.Prior to the pandemic, the event was originally slated to take place in July in the city’s downtown core.

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Comcast extends free internet services for low-income families through end of 2020

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Nova Scotia reports no new COVID-19 cases and one active case

COVID-19 tests.In total, there have been 60,351 negative test results and 1,067 positive COVID-19 cases. N.S.

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Chinese spies accused of worldwide hacking campaign targeting coronavirus research

coronavirus.The indictment, which officials expected to discuss at a news conference, says the hackers in recent months had researched vulnerabilities in the computer networks of companies publicly known for their work in developing vaccines and treatments.The indictment includes charges of trade secret theft and wire fraud conspiracy against the hackers, who federal prosecutors say stole information not only for themselves but also that they knew would be of interest and value to the Chinese government.The charges are believed to be the first accusing foreign hackers of targeting scientific innovation related to the coronavirus, though U.S. and Western intelligence agencies have warned for months about those efforts.

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Appeal to those who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 to get involved in project that could see permanent memorial in Perth

Perth. Plans are in the pipeline for an individual work of art to be commissioned to represent each life lost to COVID-19 in Perth and Kinross.

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Hijackers steal truck carrying deadly coronavirus samples at gunpoint

Dive right in! Like the weather, the Daily Star's FREE newsletter is a scorcherA truck carrying coronavirus samples has been hijacked in South Africa.The truck had been loaded with several 40-litre containers full of live Covid-19 samples when it was hijacked by armed men outside a clinic in Motherwell – in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province – at around 3.30 pm local time yesterday.The vehicle was abandoned not far from the scene and has since been recovered, according to a report in the Daily Mail, but the virus samples are still missing.Police have warned the public to remain well clear of the containers and to call the authorities immediately if they spot them.Port Elizabeth police spokesperson Colonel Priscila Naidu told News24: “It

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9 more COVID-19 deaths in Haryana, 604 fresh cases

CHANDIGARH : Nine more people died due to COVID-19 in Haryana on Tuesday, taking the state's toll to 364, while 604 fresh infections pushed its case count to 27,462, according to a state health department bulletin.Of the latest fatalities, two each were reported from Faridabad, Rohtak and Karnal districts, and one each from Jhajjar, Palwal and Panipat districts, the department's daily bulletin stated.The fresh cases were reported from 10 districts.Gurgaon reported the maximum number of new cases at 121, followed by 111 in Faridabad, 94 in Panipat, 55 in Ambala, 41 in Sonipat, 28 in Palwal, 19 in Jhajjar, 33 in Karnal, 19 in Panchkula and 16 in Rewari, according to the bulletin.There are 6,164 active COVID-19 in the state at present, while

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Another 3,000 Covid-19 deaths possible in Sweden, say officials

Swedish health officials said today that another 3,000 deaths from the coronavirus were possible in the country, known for its controversial softer approach to curbing the spread and much higher death toll than its neighbours.

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Hextall on Hockey: NHL return to play — so far, so good?

The players were not identified, as per the NHL’s policy, but it is confirmed they are self-isolating — which, technically, is what every NHL player, club personnel and family member should be doing at this time.This seven-day period is the most significant prior to puck drop, as the NHL does its best to identify and eliminate any source of the virus from entering its fragile ecosystem.In preparation to travel to the secure zone, the players, club personnel and family members who plan to enter the bubble are currently adhering to strict protocols that involve pre-travel physical distancing and testing.The 52 people each competing team lists to travel to the hub city, as well as family members that will join them in the bubble, will be

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Manitoba premier to discuss ‘restoring safe services’ amid coronavirus Tuesday

Manitoba to make bid for Winnipeg to be a CFL hub city, should season go ahead On Monday the premier announced the province will make a bid for Winnipeg to be a hub city for a shortened CFL season amid COVID-19, should the league go ahead with play later this year.He said the province is committing $2.5 million to help encourage the CFL to choose Winnipeg.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]As of Monday there have been 354 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba and seven deaths.Questions about COVID-19? Here are some things you need to know:Symptoms can include fever, cough and difficulty breathing — very similar to a cold or flu. Some people can develop a more severe illness.

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US accuses Chinese hackers in targeting of COVID-19 research

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department on Tuesday accused two Chinese hackers of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars of trade secrets from companies across the world and more recently targeting firms developing a vaccine for the coronavirus.The indictment, which officials expected to discuss at a news conference, says the hackers in recent months had researched vulnerabilities in the computer networks of companies publicly known for their work in developing vaccines and treatments.RELATED: CoronavirusNOW.com, FOX launches national hub for COVID-19 news and updatesThe indictment includes charges of trade secret theft and wire fraud conspiracy against the hackers, who federal prosecutors say stole information that they knew would be of

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Florida reports more than 9,000 new cases of COVID-19, 136 new deaths

ORLANDO, Fla. – The number of coronavirus cases in Florida continues to rise, with the state reporting 9,440 new cases on Tuesday, as well as 136 additional deaths.The latest numbers from the Florida Department of Health bring the state’s overall total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases since the virus was first detected in the Sunshine State to 369,834.On July 1, the Florida Department of Health began reporting resident and non-resident deaths as separate categories.

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Quebec reports 180 new coronavirus cases, 1 more death

coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total to 57,796.The province, which accounts for more than half of Canada’s COVID-19 fatalities, recorded one new death. The health crisis has killed 5,658 Quebecers to date.The number of hospitalizations stands at 247, a decrease of four from the previous day.

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Florida mother loses son, daughter to coronavirus within days of each other

Florida mother is grieving both her son and daughter after losing them to COVID-19 within 11 days of each other.After a family trip to Orlando, Monete Hicks’ son Byron Francis and daughter Mychaela Francis fell ill. Though they both had health issues, she told CNN, they were fine and “basically homebound.”One Saturday in late June, Byron Francis, 20, woke up struggling to breathe.

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43 new coronavirus cases in Ottawa on Tuesday, provincial data says

coronavirus continues to surge in Ottawa with 43 new cases identified via provincial data Tuesday morning.Ontario’s COVID-19 dashboard reports there have been 2,287 total cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, in Ottawa as of Tuesday.Ottawa’s latest figures represent more than 20 per cent of all new coronavirus cases added to the provincial database in the past 24 hours, with 203 cases identified in Ontario on Tuesday.The provincial data shows there are now 157 active cases of the COVID-19 in Ottawa.The city’s death toll related to the virus remains unchanged at 263.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Ottawa Public Health’s daily report on the novel coronavirus, with more segmented data

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Ontario reports 203 new coronavirus cases, highest single-day increase in 3 weeks

reported 203 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the provincial total to 37,942.Tuesday’s case number marks the largest increase in cases within a 24-hour period in three weeks — since June 29, which saw 257 cases.“Today’s uptick is the result of localized increases,” Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said in a tweet Tuesday morning. “Looking at the age of today’s new cases, 116 of them or 57 per cent are 39 years old or younger.”The death toll in the province has risen to 2,753, as one new death was reported.Meanwhile, 33,605 Ontarians have recovered from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, which is 88 per cent of cases.

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OTTAWA -- Ottawa has recorded 43 new cases of COVID-19, a significant spike in the number of lab-confirmed cases of the virus.

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Bake Off Candice Brown's marriage was strained 'early on' amid mental health battle

Great British Bake Off star Candice Owens has told of how her relationship with husband Liam Macaulay was placed under strain in the early days of their marriage.

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Florida police chief to retire over alleged COVID remarks

DAVIE, Fla. – A South Florida police chief has announced his retirement months after an investigation into alleged remarks he made about the coronavirus death of an openly gay Broward Sheriff's deputy.Davie police Chief Dale Engle told town officials last week that he plans to retire on Sept. 3, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.

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With 3,649 more people testing positive, Karnataka's covid-19 tally past 70,000

Bengaluru: The total number of covid-19 cases in Karnataka stood at 71,069 as 3,649 more people tested positive on Tuesday.The number of active cases also rose to 44,140 in the state, fueled by the surge in Bengaluru, which recorded 1,714 new cases in the 24 hours until 5 pm on Tuesday.Karnataka has seen a steady rise in cases over the last two weeks of which the source of the infection in majority of the cases remains unknown indicating the possibility of a full-blown community transmission.Karnataka chief minister B.S.Yediyurappa on Monday ruled out an extension of the ongoing lockdown in Bengaluru and other parts of the state."Lockdown is not the only solution to control covid-19," he said.Despite the surge in cases in which the source

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Colin Jost admits that he and fiancee Scarlett Johannson are rethinking their wedding nuptials amidst COVID 19

Colin Jost recently talked about how the global Coronavirus pandemic has him and fiancee Scarlett Johansson rethinking their wedding nuptials and spoke about how they will be getting married in the near future. In a recent virtual interview with Andy Cohen on his show SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live, the chat show host asked Colin, “did the pandemic make you rethink how you will get married?” “Of course.

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People are more likely to contract COVID-19 at home, study finds

SEOUL : South Korean epidemiologists have found that people were more likely to contract the new coronavirus from members of their own households than from contacts outside the home.A study published in the U.S.

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AP reports nearly 5,000 fresh COVID-19 cases; 62 deaths

AMARAVATI : Shooting further up with the addition of nearly 5,000 cases, Andhra Pradeshs COVID-19 tally touched 55,773 while the state saw 62 deaths, the highest in a day so far, on Tuesday. The latest bulletin said 1,232 patients also got cured and discharged from hospitals as the cumulative recoveries rose to 22,896.

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Kerala records 720 new COVID-19 cases, one death

KERALA : Kerala on Tuesday reported 720 fresh cases of COVID-19, taking the number of infected people in the state to 13,994, while 1,62,444 people are under observation in the state.Of the new cases, 528 were infected from their contacts, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the media after the daily COVID-19 evaluation meet."Sources of at least 34 cases are yet to be identified...82 came from abroad, 54 came from other states...17 health workers,29 defence security corps personnel, four ITBP personnel and five personnel belonging to other paramilitary forces were also affected.The state also reported one death today," he said.The chief minister condoled the death of the 72- year-old woman, Victoria, a native of Pulluvila in the district,

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Nonwhite patients more likely to have severe COVID-19, study finds

Radiology, provides further evidence of the disproportionate effects of issues concerning race and ethnicity on the severity of COVID-19.The sudden emergence and rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 could arguably have been a leveler of social difference: In theory, anyone could catch the virus and risk a severe case of COVID-19, which can lead to death.However, as António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations has noted, “The virus does not discriminate, but its impacts do, exposing deep weaknesses in the delivery of public services and structural inequalities that impede access to them.”One way that these structural inequalities have become apparent is the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 on people who are not white.The reasons

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Oxford COVID-19 vaccine shows real promise

demonstrated that the vaccine could protect rhesus macaques on subsequent exposure to the new coronavirus. This research has not been through full peer review yet.

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N.S. nursing homes look for action on funding increases in wake of COVID-19

This report by The Canadian Press was first published on July 21, 2020.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Will Have A Coronavirus Pandemic Storyline

The characters of “Grey’s Anatomy” will experience COVID-19 like the rest of the world.

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Coronavirus: Canada, U.S. order 177 million syringes and needles from medical company

COVID-19 vaccination programs.The new order for 140 million syringes and needles brings Becton’s total U.S. orders to 190 million devices, while the new Canadian order for 37 million devices brings the country’s total orders to 75 million.

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COMMENTARY: Don’t get smug about the U.S. — coronavirus could come back to bite Canada, too

COVID-19 ignorance raging south of the border.Mocked and derided on social media as “COVIDiots” and “mask-holes,” the anti-face-mask, virus-denying, conspiracy-fueled American mob is a source of condescending Canadian amusement.But if you think we’re immune from cockamamie COVID kookiness, think again.

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Axis Bank turns more conservative amid covid-19 disruption

₹6,898 crore and has a provision coverage ratio (PCR) of 75% as on 30 June, as compared to 69% as on 31 March. The bank has made incremental provisions of ₹733 crore in Q1 FY21 towards covid-19 As the covid-19 uncertainty continues, private sector lender Axis Bank has adopted a more conservative approach, continuing to build up a warchest of provisions.The bank now holds excess provisions of ₹6,898 crore and has a provision coverage ratio (PCR) of 75% as on 30 June, as compared to 69% as on 31 March.

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Merck, contract research firm IRBM partner on coronavirus therapies

Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.Merck (MSD) has collaborated with contract research services company IRBM for the identification and development of new peptide therapeutics that can target various strains of coronavirus, including SARS-CoV-2. The alliance will work on hit to lead optimisation and preclinical development to rapidly advance therapeutic candidates into the clinic.

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Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

A Crisis Within a Crisis: Water Scarcity Amid COVID-19

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