GENEVA - Widespread hopes that a coronavirus vaccine will end the global pandemic are unrealistic, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official...
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PARIS - Classes for more than 450 million students starting the new academic year are expected to be entirely remote – or for some, a mix of...
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The number of confirmed coronavirus cases globally has topped 25 million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The US leads the...
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LONDON - The biggest study yet of children admitted to hospital with Covid-19 has revealed that the virus poses a “vanishingly small” threat to...
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