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Five more Victorians have died from coronavirus, as the premier appealed to young people to take the threat seriously if they want to “be able to go and have a beer”. Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed 403 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the state’s third-worst tally. The five deaths are also …

Global confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 15 million on Wednesday, reaching 15,000,424 as of 16:35 GMT, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. A total of 617,832 people worldwide have died of the disease, the data showed. The United States has suffered the most …

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have criticized Donald Trump’s leadership, in a teaser for a filmed discussion between the pair. The former president and vice president filmed a socially-distant conversation about challenges facing the US, in Obama’s office in Washington, DC earlier this month, that will be streamed on Biden’s …

The U.S. agreed to pay $1.95 billion for 100 million doses of a vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, the government’s latest step to lock up supplies to fight the pandemic. The U.S. will pay the companies when it receives the doses, following regulatory authorization or approval, according …

Covid-19 is “the Trump virus,” says US House speaker Nancy Pelosi, asserting that President Donald Trump has “recognized the mistakes he has made.” Trump has himself come up with various names for the virus, mostly in an attempt to blame China for the onset of the pandemic, calling it “the …

Iraq registered, on Wednesday, 2706 new cases and of Covid-19, as well as about 2197 recoveries and 92 fatalities in the past 24 hours. The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said in a statement that, 18416 tests were performed today, The newly recovery cases were distributed as follows: Baghdad …

The executive director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergency Program, has warned that the African continent is faced with a steep acceleration of coronavirus cases. Dr. Michael Ryan made this grim prediction during his regular press briefing and said that the African continent has reported a low number …

Global coronavirus infections surged past 15 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic gathering pace even as countries remain divided in their response to the crisis. In the United States, which has the highest number of cases in the world with 3.91 million infections, President Donald …

Russia’s novel coronavirus vaccine trials were successfully completed on Monday and the results indicated long-term immunity could be established, Russia’s ministry of defense said. “The Russian Defence Ministry together with the Gamaleya [Gamalei] Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology has successfully completed clinical trials of the vaccine against COVID-19 …

US President Donald Trump is set to once again take center stage in the government’s coronavirus response after a White House debate over how best to deploy its greatest and most volatile asset — him — played out in public as his poll numbers falter. One week after a campaign …

The Ministry of Health and Environment recorded (2308) cases of recovery today in Iraq today The ministry said in a statement received by Shafaq News agency, 16498 tests were performed today, raising the total number of performed tests since the beginning of the outbreak in the country to 809522. The …

The Ministry of Health and Environment announced the registration of 2310 new infections in Coronavirus, 2036 cases of recovery and 90 deaths today. The ministry said in a statement that AlghdeerTV  received a copy of it that “(15737) samples were examined in all the specialized laboratories in Iraq today, thus …

Countries from the U.S. to South Africa to India were struggling to hold down rising rates of the coronavirus, as global deaths from COVID-19 surged past 600,000 in a sign of how far off the world remains from a return to normalcy. While the U.S. leads global infections, South Africa …

Scientists have identified six distinct types of COVID-19 – each with a specific collection of symptoms – in a breakthrough that could help doctors predict which patients are most at risk. The different forms of the disease are believed to determine its severity among those infected – and whether they …

The United States saw more than 70,000 new coronavirus cases for a second straight day on Friday, with 71,600 new cases reported across the country. Thursday saw an all-time daily high of 77,300 new confirmed cases, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. total confirmed case count …

The ministry of health announced the daily epidemiological situation of the Coronavirus pandemic today in Iraq on Saturday, July 18, 2020 The ministry said in a statement that AlghdeerTv (NINA) received a copy of it that “15229 samples were examined in all specialized laboratories in Iraq today. Thus, the total …

European Union leaders were hunting for compromises Saturday as a summit to reach a deal on an unprecedented 1.85 trillion euro ($2.1 trillion) EU budget and coronavirus recovery fund entered its second day with tensions running high. A full day and night of discussions by the 27 leaders on Friday …

Fresh studies give more information about what treatments do or don’t work for COVID-19, with high-quality methods that give reliable results. British researchers on Friday published their research on the only drug shown to improve survival — a cheap steroid called dexamethasone. Two other studies found that malaria drug hydroxychloroquine …

Teams of military medics were deployed in Texas and California to help hospitals deluged by coronavirus patients, as Miami area authorities began stepping up enforcement Friday of a mask requirement — echoing efforts in many parts of the world to contain surging infections. In California, military doctors, nurses and other …

The European Union is negotiating advance purchase deals of potential COVID-19 vaccines with drugmakers Moderna, Sanofi, and Johnson & Johnson and biotech firms BioNtech and CureVac, two EU sources told Reuters. The talks follow a deal reached in June by four EU states with AstraZeneca for the upfront purchase of …