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16 July 2020
• Brazil surpasses 2 million cases of coronavirus. • US, Canadian and UK intelligence officials report that the Russian hackers...
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15 July 2020
• US coronavirus cases exceed 3.5 million. • Hetero, a Gilead licensee, begins to supply 60,000 vials of COIVFOR, its...
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14 July 2020
Results from the phase I trial of Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccine are published; the vaccine elicited similar immune responses to those...
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13 July 2020
• Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General, says “Too many countries are headed in the wrong direction. The virus...
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11 July 2020
President Trump wears a mask publicly for the first time, during a visit to a military hospital.
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9 July 2020
WHO formally acknowledges that asymptomatic people can transmit COVID-19, and indoor airborne transmission.
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8 July 2020
• The US reaches 3 million cases of COVID-19. • Cipla launches Cipremi, its generic version of remdesivir, at $53.34...
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7 July 2020
• After months of downplaying the severity of COVID-19, Brazil’s President Bolsonaro announces that he has tested positive. • After...
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6 July 2020
• WHO warns that progress against HIV may be stalled by COVID-19-related disruptions in access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and...
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4 July 2020
• A group of 239 researchers from 32 countries draft a letter to WHO, calling for it to declare that...
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3 July 2020
• Remdesivir receives conditional approval in the EU (which is valid for 12 months; after that it can be extended...
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2 July 2020
Researchers publish a paper suggesting that a mutation in COVID-19 has made it more transmissible. Source