Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Transport Baey Yam Keng announced today (March 5) that e-scooter and electric bicycle riders will soon have to take “mandatory theory tests”. He reasoned that these tests will help ensure all riders of such motorised devices are aware of the existing rules and codes of conduct. …
Read More »Three Tests, a Private Jet and a New Rule: How Nick Saban Made Kickoff
A private jet, the crimson “A” of the University of Alabama painted on its tail, lifted off from Tuscaloosa, Ala., around daybreak Saturday with extraordinary cargo: cellular debris collected from the nose of Nick Saban, the football coach. Three days earlier, Saban had announced that he had tested positive for …
Read More »Federal Official Threatens Nevada for Halting Rapid Tests in Nursing Homes
The leader of the nation’s coronavirus testing efforts condemned Nevada’s health department on Friday for ordering nursing homes to discontinue two brands of government-issued rapid coronavirus tests that the state had found to be inaccurate. “Bottom line, the recommendations in the Nevada letter are unjustified and not scientifically valid,” Adm. …
Read More »Covid-19 Live Updates: Drugmaker Has Begun Final Tests of a One-Shot Vaccine
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Dr. Robert R. Redfield and other members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force update lawmakers on the government’s pandemic response.CreditCredit…Pool photo by Erin Scott Here’s what you need to know: Johnson & Johnson begins the final stage of clinical trials for its vaccine. With the …
Read More »Covid-19 Live Updates: More Chaos for Students as Virus Upends College Admissions Tests
Here’s what you need to know: The virus and wildfires stopped many students from taking the ACT Saturday. The same may happen with the SAT this week. The C.D.C. removes guidance acknowledging the virus is transmitted mainly in the air, days after posting it. An N.I.H. official was perpetuating conspiracy …
Read More »In Sign of Progress, Fewer Than 1% of New York’s Virus Tests Are Positive
This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: ‘Be smart’: New Yorkers get good news on virus numbers, but also a warning. Skyrocketing cases push India to No. 2 on the pandemic list. Britain is stunned by a spike in daily cases. Kamala …
Read More »Backed by Federal Funds, New Virus Tests Are Hitting the Market
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic remained a distant threat to many Americans on Jan. 24 when Douglas C. Bryant, the president and chief executive officer of Quidel Corporation, got a call from an official at the Food and Drug Administration. If the government helped, the official asked, would Quidel make …
Read More »Coronavirus Live Updates: Ohio Governor Urges Caution on Rapid Tests After False Positive
Here’s what you need to know: Use rapid tests, but use them carefully, Ohio’s governor says after a false-positive scare. Trump’s moves on economic aid draw fire on the Sunday news shows. Kansas City, a potential hot spot, needs federal aid to cope, the mayor says. New Zealand goes 100 …
Read More »Tests for Coronavirus Vaccine Need This Ingredient: Horseshoe Crabs
For decades, drug companies have depended on a component in the blood of the horseshoe crab to test injectable medicines, including vaccines, for dangerous bacterial contaminants called endotoxins. Conservationists and some businesses have pushed for wide acceptance of an alternative test, to protect the horseshoe crabs and birds that feed …
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