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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicCoronavirus world updates

Topic: coronavirus world updates

Around 5,000 volunteers sign up for phase 1 clinical trial of covid-19 vaccine in Wuhan

A single-centre, open and dose-escalation phase I clinical trial for recombinant novel coronavirus vaccine will be tested in healthy adults aged between 18 and 60 years.

Remdesivir trials in Israel and Italy’s drop in cases — 5 global developments on Covid-19

From supercomputers simulating Covid-19 to an app that tracks symptoms, ThePrint brings you the top developments on the coronavirus pandemic from across the world.

Prince Charles tests positive for coronavirus, is in isolation at home in Scotland

The Prince of Wales’ wife, Camila, has tested negative for Covid-19.

Brazilian gangsters impose curfew as President Bolsonaro calls coronavirus a ‘little flu’

Threatening messages are being circulated in the slums of Rio de Janeiro by gangsters saying they will 'teach people to respect' an 8 pm shutdown.

Social media trends #MakeChinaPay as Covid-19 forces people into indefinite quarantine

The novel coronavirus outbreak began in China's Hubei province and has now spread to 197 countries with 19,000 deaths worldwide.

Women in New York are delivering babies alone as there is no hand to hold in hospitals

Tight restrictions on visitors, even for those giving birth, are one of many dramatic measures New York hospitals have taken to prepare for the crush of incoming Covid-19 patients.

Doctors turn to social media to develop Covid-19 treatments in real time

Isolated by a highly contagious virus, doctors across the globe are trying to fill an information void online.

Countries are starting to hoard food, threatening global trade

Not just grocery shoppers, some governments are moving to secure domestic food supplies during the conoravirus pandemic.

India’s perfectly-timed lockdown & wartime efforts to find Covid-19 cure

In episode 426 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta elaborates on India's lockdown and the ongoing research to develop a treatment plan from existing drugs.

How the coronavirus recession is like World War II

There is a lot of discussion about the Great Recession of 2008 but the coronavirus crisis has more in common with World War II.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.