The Philippine Star - August 07, 2020

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August 07, 2020

More frontliners test positive for COVID

More police and health frontliners are testing positive for coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19, authorities said yesterday.

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Negligence eyed in Beirut blast

BEIRUT (AP) – Investigators probing the deadly blast that ripped across Beirut focused Wednesday on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fertilizer in a waterfront warehouse, while the government ordered the house arrest of several port officials.

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Fauci expects millions of vaccine doses at start of 2021

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Drugmakers will likely have tens of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccines in the early part of next year, with production ramping up to a billion doses by the end of 2021, Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious diseases official, said in a Reuters interview on Wednesday.

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Brazil adrift as virus toll approaches 100,000

SAO PAULO (AFP) – Five months after confirming its first case of the new coronavirus, Brazil is fast approaching the bleak milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, a tragedy experts blame on the country’s lack of coherent response.

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