AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford announced on Monday that their inexpensive, easy-to-produce coronavirus vaccine appears effective, the latest in a string of encouraging results this month from leading vaccine developers. An early analysis of data from late-stage clinical trials found that AstraZeneca’s vaccine was either 62 percent or 90 …
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Here’s what you need to know: The U.S. announces a nearly $ 2 billion contract for 600 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine. For the first time, Trump urges Americans to wear masks. Republicans squabble over what to include in the next round of pandemic relief. United Airlines will require …
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On a regular day, 3D printing firms such as Siege Advanced Manufacturing and Additive3D Asia do both mass and customised 3D prints. When Covid-19 hit Singapore however, their businesses were disrupted and they witnessed their revenue falling by at least 70 per cent as clients cut back on their marketing …
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Photo by Platoo Fotography / Shutterstock.com The internet has been abuzz with the question: Should you wash fruit and vegetables with soap to get rid of the coronavirus? Soap and water seems intuitively to be the right way to go. After all, if that’s good for cleaning our bodies, shouldn’t …
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