Coronavirus update: COVID-19 adds new uncertainty to campaign for White House

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US President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden search for places accept their parties' presidential nominations as the spread of the coronavirus adds fresh uncertainty to the campaign for the White House.

Coronavirus adds uncertainty to White House campaign

Mr Biden has scrapped plans to accept the Democratic nomination on August 20 in Milwaukee, where the party has spent more than a year planning a massive convention. The campaigns have been looking for alternative ways to deal with the virus and still reach millions of Americans through television and virtual events.Vietnam has been close to completing the conversion of a sports stadium into a 1,000-bed field hospital in its new coronavirus epicentre Da Nang.

The facility would be used to isolate people who were in direct contact with a positive case, as part of Vietnam's centralised quarantine programme. The health ministry reported 34 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, taking Vietnam's total cases to 747, with 10 deaths.Ten countries account for 80 per cent of the new coronavirus testing taking place across Africa.

Brazil's federal police said it had carried out six search and arrest warrants as part of an operation into alleged coronavirus-related corruption in the city of Sao Paulo.

 

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Since ABC chooses to spoon feed America with just the news they want you to hear, here’s what they left out last night. Ask yourself why? Network evening newscasts skip Sally Yates admitting James Comey went 'rogue' with Flynn interview.

Hydroxychloroquine has been safely prescribed hundreds of millions of times since the FDA approved it 65 years ago. CDC says it can be 'safely taken by pregnant women and children'. WHO calls it an essential medicine. Why is the media all of a sudden claiming it’s dangerous

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The only way Trump wins is by cheating, like in 2016

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