Biotech firm Moderna Inc’s experimental vaccine for COVID-19 showed it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.Volunteers who got two doses of the vaccine had high levels of virus-killing antibodies that exceeded the average levels seen in people who had recovered…
Scientists in Italy have found traces of the new coronavirus in wastewater collected from Milan and Turin in December 2019 – suggesting COVID-19 was already circulating in northern Italy before China reported the first cases.The Italian National Institute of Health looked at 40 sewage samples collected from wastewater treatment plants in northern Italy between October…
The ACT has recorded its first new case of coronavirus in more than a month — bringing the total number of known cases in the territory to 108.Key points:ACT Health said the newly confirmed case had recently returned from overseasThe man is aged in his 40s and has been in quarantine since his arrivalChief Health…
Despite the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, global smartwatch shipments continued to grow during the first three months of the year, driven by online sales, says a new report by research firm Strategy Analytics. Shipments grew 20% annually to reach 13.7 million units in the first quarter of 2020, up from 11.4 million units…
Updated / Tuesday, 5 May 2020 07:51 The golden statues of the Trocadero esplanade, in front of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris The first patient with Covid-19 in France appeared at the end of December, a month before the first case was confirmed, according to an intensive care chief. The novel coronavirus first appeared in…
Live Watch CBSN Live New COVID-19 testing revealed that the first coronavirus fatality happened at least three weeks earlier than the reported Washington state death on February 29. Though the current U.S. death toll is over 45,000, the actual number is feared to be much higher because of a shortage of testing kits. Soon, first…
Around 100 health workers were at tested for Covid-19 at the first NHS staff testing centre in Belfast. The facility at the SSE Arena opened yesterday and complements testing being carried out by Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland. It is part of the UK-wide NHS initiative on staff testing in which Randox and…
Some patients with COVID-19 experience gastrointestinal symptoms, particularly diarrhea, as the first sign of illness, according to a new study.Among this subset of patients – who have mild disease overall – respiratory symptoms show up only later in the illness, and some never develop respiratory symptoms at all, the authors said.NEW YORK SURPASSES CHINA’S OFFICIAL COUNT IN CORONAVIRUS…
