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12 October 2020
• J & J announces a pause in its 60,000- person, phase III clinical trial of its experimental coronavirus vaccine,...
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11 October 2020
• In just three days, the world reports one million new coronavirus cases. Source • Spain, France and Russia report...
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10 October 2020
• Former CDC Director Dr Tom Frieden states that an estimated 40 million people in the US have been infected...
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9 October 2020
• Re-infection with coronavirus is reported in an 89 year-old woman in the Netherlands who was immunocompromised; she fell ill...
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8 October 2020
• Moderna announces that it will not enforce patents related to its coronavirus vaccine during the pandemic, amid controversy about...
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7 October 2020
• Eli Lily requests an EUA for its monoclonal antibody, LY-CoV555; the company is also planning to apply for approval...
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6 October 2020
• A WHO representative estimates that 10% of the global population may have already had coronavirus,a number far higher than...
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5 October 2020
• The White House decides not to do any contact tracing, amid reports of coronavirus infections among President Trump’s inner...
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4 October 2020
• President Trump’s physician, Dr Sean Conley, announces that he is being treated with dexamethasone (which can cause agitation, paranoia...
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3 October 2020
• South Africa and India ask the World Trade Organization (WTO) to waive provisions of the TRIPS agreement to enable...
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2 October 2020
• US President Trump announces in a tweet that he and his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, have tested positive...
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1 October 2020
In Peru, which is home to the world’s highest per capita death rate from coronavirus, nearly 10,000 healthcare workers go...