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Beijing, China | XINHUA | Global COVID-19 cases topped 20 million on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University, doubling the world’s total infections in 45 days. With an effective vaccine still out of reach and many countries witnessing new records of daily surge of confirmed cases over the past weeks, …

Moscow, Russia | XINHUA | Russia has registered the world’s first vaccine against the novel coronavirus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. “As far as I know, this morning, for the first time in the world, a vaccine against the new coronavirus infection has been registered,” Putin said during an …

San Francisco, US | XINHUA | A team of researchers has developed a new vaccine design strategy that could confer improved immunity against certain viruses, including those that cause AIDS, the flu, and COVID-19, according to a report released by the University of Washington Medicine (UW Medicine) on Tuesday. Using this …

Washington, US | XINHUA | Despite its efforts to develop a vaccine against the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States lacks a plan to get shots to communities of color affected by the coronavirus, according to a piece published in U.S. magazine Politico on Monday. “For decades, communities of color have …

New Delhi, India | XINHUA | Human trials for developing an indigenous vaccine against COVID-19 are going on in full swing in India. Two companies — Bharat Biotech and Zydus Cadila — are currently carrying out human trials in six cities across the country. On Friday a 30-year-old man was administered …

London, UK | XINHUA | China has largely controlled COVID-19, and the rest of the world can still learn from China’s successes in bringing its outbreak under control, according to the latest editorial by medical journal The Lancet. China’s response shows the importance of domestic research and public health capacity, said …

Washington, US | XINHUA | People could need multiple vaccine doses to immunize themselves against the coronavirus and deploying a vaccine will require a global effort, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Wednesday. “None of the vaccines at this point appear like they’ll work with a single dose,” Gates told …

Washington, US | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump resumed his press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, admitting that the situation in the country will “get worse.” “It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better — something I don’t like saying about things, but that’s the …

Washington, US | XINHUA | The resurgence of COVID-19 cases across the United States is raising the risk of a double-dip recession if the country is unable to reign in the pandemic, economists have warned. A total of 34 U.S. states have seen increasing rates of COVID-19 infection since the Memorial …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  There is increasing hope that the world may soon overcome the COVID-19 threat thanks to two vaccines that have shown they can protect the body against the disease.  According to preliminary findings published in the science journal, two vaccines, one from Oxford University and the …