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UK is to trial use of blood plasma from coronavirus survivors
Apr 20, 2020 02:31NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is asking people who have recovered from Covid-19 to donate their blood in the hope that the antibodies they have built up will help to clear the virus in others.
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Hamas spares no effort in combating COVID-19 in Gaza Strip: Official
Apr 20, 2020 02:18A high-ranking official with Hamas says the Palestinian resistance movement has made strenuous efforts at all possible levels to help the besieged Gaza Strip contain the spread of COVID-19 disease in the enclave.
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Time to act, Iran says, urging IMF to provide loan via INSTEX, SHTA
Apr 20, 2020 01:47The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran called on the International Monetary Fund to make use of the EU-Iran trading mechanism ‘INSTEX’ or the Swiss humanitarian channel for Iran ‘SHTA’ to make a $5 billion loan that Tehran has applied for to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
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Iran faces no disruption to food supplies amid pandemic
Apr 20, 2020 01:35Iranian authorities say the country faces no disruption to food supplies amid the new coronavirus pandemic as large-scale government programs for purchase of agrifood from domestic farmers have helped boost inventories.
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Trump’s defunding of the WHO threatens to make the pandemic worse
Apr 19, 2020 14:36If US President Donald Trump were serious about containing the coronavirus pandemic, he would be proposing large grants to bolster public health systems and disease containment strategies globally. Instead, all-too-predictably, as U.S. death rates from the virus soar, he seeks to score cheap political points with his base by castigating and now defunding the World Health Organization.
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Iran ramps up production of ventilators to help treat COVID-19 patients
Apr 19, 2020 14:14Iran is ramping up production of ventilators to help treat coronavirus patients, after several companies received orders placed by the government for thousands of such devices.
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Palestine reports seven new coronavirus cases, first death in al-Quds
Apr 19, 2020 13:00Palestinian authorities have confirmed the death of an elderly woman from the novel coronavirus in al-Quds, and reported seven new cases, raising the total number of infected people to 431.
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Coronavirus crisis under full control in Russia: Putin
Apr 19, 2020 12:47Russian President Vladimir Putin says the coronavirus pandemic is under full control in his country, adding that Moscow has all the necessary resources to protect people’s health and support the economy under these circumstances.
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Zarif to Trump: Stop interfering in other nations’ affairs; mine especially
Apr 19, 2020 08:44Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has once again warned US President Donald Trump against interfering in the internal affairs of other countries in the age of the new coronavirus.
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Iran expands screening of population for coronavirus
Apr 19, 2020 07:41President Hassan Rouhani says Iran has begun taking new measures to screen people for COVID-19 symptoms in a bid to rein in the novel coronavirus pandemic.