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A study by scientists from China and the United States found that 14.5 per cent of people discharged from hospital after being treated for Covid-19 later retested positive for infection.According to the researchers, 38 of 262 subjects – all of whom were observed for at least two weeks – retested positive, which was almost identical to the proportion – 14 per cent – found in a study conducted in late February by health authorities in southern China’s Guangdong province.However, research…



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Two members of the Kennedy US political dynasty, including a grandniece of assassinated president John F Kennedy, were missing Friday after they went canoeing.Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s daughter and eight-year-old grandson disappeared on Thursday after boating on the South River in Maryland, Governor Larry Hogan told reporters.An intensive search has been under way since Thursday.“On behalf of the people of Maryland, I expressed our most heartfelt sympathies and prayers to her and to her…



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This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Myah Ward on politico.com on March 3, 2020.The White House is administering a rapid coronavirus test to anyone coming into contact with President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence, Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere confirmed to POLITICO on Friday.“As the Physician to the President and White House Operations continue to protect the health and safety of the President and the Vice President,…



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Panama has implemented gender-based social distancing regulations to help tackle the coronavirus crisis, but the move has raised “dread” among members of the transgender community.Already under a near total lockdown, Panamanian authorities decreed this week that men could only leave home to go shopping on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with women allowed to do so on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.No one is allowed out on Sundays.Before that, Panama had already closed its borders, suspended…



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The White House has ordered mask manufacturer 3M to halt exports of N95 respirators to Canada and elsewhere that were bound for health care workers, the company said on Friday, pushing back against the US administration amid the Covid-19 pandemic and prompting hints of retaliation from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.There would be “significant humanitarian implications”, the firm said in a statement, in response to the White House’s invocation on Thursday of the Defence Production Act …



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Britain’s main opposition Labour party on Saturday unveils a new leader to succeed Jeremy Corbyn, who takes the helm of a defeated and divided party in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak.Keir Starmer, a former director of state prosecutions and Labour’s Brexit spokesman, is the runaway favourite to win the ballot of around 500,000 party members.The announcement will be a low-key affair, with a planned special conference cancelled due to restrictions on social gatherings imposed to stem the…



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In the suburb of Brecksville, Ohio, two sisters who have been out of school indefinitely since before St. Patrick’s Day have put pictures they’ve painted to pass the time in their windows. “First shamrocks and today rainbows,” says their mother Melissa Wain Hinchman, 42. “The kids can walk or drive around the neighbourhood and see each other’s art work.”Her family is among the nearly 12 million residents in Ohio coping with a totally changed – and unrecognisable – way of life as the United…



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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Friday renewed his call for a global ceasefire, urging all parties to conflict to lay down arms and allow war-torn nations to combat the coronavirus pandemic.“The worst is yet to come,” Guterres said, referring to countries beset with fighting like Syria, Libya and Yemen.“The COVID-19 storm is now coming to all these theatres of conflict.”The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday reported 239,279 cases of coronavirus worldwide, an…



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Russia has retracted a coronavirus genome sequence that contained an unusually large amount of mutations that set off an alarm bells in Beijing, a senior government scientist in Moscow has confirmed.In an updated file later submitted to the international database GISAID, the mutations were reduced by 96 per cent.The sequence, collected from a female Covid-19 patient in Saint Petersburg on March 15 and uploaded to the GISAID database five days later, was the first and so far only strain of the…



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Singapore on Friday reversed its position on masks, saying it would no longer discourage residents from wearing them in public and would distribute reusable face masks from Sunday.Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made the statement alongside his announcement that schools and most workplaces would be closed from early next week, as part of ramped-up measures to stem the coronavirus outbreak as infections surged in the past month to more than 1,100 as of Friday.Singapore to close schools, most…



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