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Covid-19 wrap | AstraZeneca to know by year-end if vaccine works, Trump admits playing down virus

An average of more than 5 600 people die each day from Covid -19, according to Reuters calculations based on data from the last two weeks.AstraZeneca should still know before the end of the year whether its experimental vaccine protects people against Covid-19, the drugmaker's chief executive Pascal Soriot said on Thursday, as long as it can resume trials soon.

He said the diagnosis would be submitted to an independent safety committee and this would usually then tell the company whether trials can be resumed. "I wanted to always play it down," Trump said in an interview with Woodward on March 19, according to a CNN preview of the book"Rage," due to be published September 15.

LG Electronics' PuriCare Wearable, which comes in one size and weighs as much as a pair of ski goggles, features two fans and high-efficiency particle air filters that clean air coming in and exhaled breath going out. "We must do everything we can to avoid local lockdown ...In these regions we could look into further restrictions of big gatherings of crowds," Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, who heads the scientific council that advises the government on the epidemic, told RTL radio.

 

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