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Northern Ireland to let teachers decide GCSE grades after A-level disaster
Aug 17, 2020 09:09Northern Irish GCSE students will be given grades decided by their teachers after an outcry over the use of an algorithm to award marks for A-level. Peter Weir, the Education Minister for the Northern Ireland executive, announced the move just days before the publication of results on Thursday, but said the change would not cause a delay.
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Nearly 300,000 patients recover from COVID-19 in Iran
Aug 17, 2020 00:35Some 300,000 coronavirus positive cases have recovered from the infectious disease in Iran, the Health Ministry said.
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COVID-19 cases surpass 21 million; France, South Korea see resurgence
Aug 16, 2020 07:24The new coronavirus has so far infected 21,468,279 people and claimed the lives of at least 771,181 others across the world since it first emerged late last year, according to figures released by the Johns Hopkins University.
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Why do we develop lifelong immunity to some diseases, but not others?
Aug 16, 2020 05:31Some diseases, like the measles, infect us once and usually grant us immunity for life. For others, like the flu, we have to get vaccinated year after year. So why do we develop lifelong immunity to some diseases but not others? And where does the novel coronavirus fit into all this? Whether or not we develop immunity to a disease often depends on our antibodies, which are proteins we produce in response to infection.
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American public health officials are quitting or getting fired in throes of pandemic
Aug 16, 2020 05:21Vilified, threatened with violence or in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health officials around the U.S. have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Thousands protest against President Moon as S Korea capital scrambles to curb virus resurgence
Aug 15, 2020 11:44A spike in new coronavirus cases in South Korea has prompted authorities to re-impose tighter social distancing curbs in Seoul, but that didn't stop thousands of demonstrators from protesting against President Moon Jae-in's policies.
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Russia starts manufacturing new COVID-19 vaccine: Ministry
Aug 15, 2020 09:39Russia has begun manufacturing the world’s first vaccine for the novel coronavirus, Interfax news agency reports.
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Millions of American working poor may lose out on benefits due to pandemic
Aug 14, 2020 14:30The coronavirus pandemic is driving American families to the edge, with tens of millions at risk of losing their homes and over 1 in 10 U.S. adults reporting their households didn’t have enough to eat in the previous week.
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Trump shrugs off coronavirus death count in interview, says “It is what it is”
Aug 14, 2020 14:26Trump’s actions in the past — or rather, his inaction in dealing with coronavirus early on — may have resulted in more deaths occurring in the US than were necessary.
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South Korea’s doctors, trainees protest government’s health plan
Aug 14, 2020 11:30Thousands of South Korean doctors and trainees protested outside parliament on Friday against the government plans to increase the number of medical students by 4,000 over the next 10 years to be better prepared for public health crises like the coronavirus pandemic.