Shopify, BlackBerry develop COVID-19 app; Canada to roll out voluntary tests
FILE PHOTO: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a news conference at Rideau Cottage, as efforts continue to help slow
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Medical & Health
New French coronavirus deaths steady, infections creep up
FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective face masks walk past the he Galeries Lafayette department store on the Champs-Elysees avenue in
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Blood type, genes tied to risk of severe COVID-19: European study
FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause of an
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UK ditches COVID-19 app model to use Google-Apple system
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will switch to Apple and Google technology for its COVID-19 test-and-trace app, ditching its homegrown system
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Johnson & Johnson in talks with governments on possible COVID-19 vaccine
FILE PHOTO: A Johnson & Johnson building is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake LONDON (Reuters)
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Filipino SFX artist seeks to ward off virus with horror-inspired face masks
TV prosthetics artist Rene Abelardo tries on a sample of his prosthetic face mask, his latest creation as TV projects
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WHO hopes for hundreds of millions of vaccine doses this year, 2 billion next year
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization hopes hundreds of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine can be produced this
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Medtronic partners with Foxconn to boost ventilator production
(Reuters) – Medical device maker Medtronic said on Thursday it had partnered with Foxconn to increase production of its ventilators
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Roche rheumatoid arthritis drug fails to help COVID-19 patients in Italian study
(Reuters) – Roche’s rheumatoid arthritis drug Actemra failed to help patients with early-stage COVID-19 pneumonia in an Italian study, the
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Beijing residents rush coronavirus test clinics as emergency rules expand
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s capital has mandated coronavirus tests for hundreds of thousands of people as it widens measures against
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