WASHINGTON, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US announced it was providing $1.6 billion in funding for the development and manufacture of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate produced by biotech firm Novavax, the largest amount awarded under Operation Warp Speed. Separately, the US also said it was providing $450 million to Regeneron…

WASHINGTON, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump said he disagrees with the assessment of the country’s top immunologist, Anthony Fauci, on the dire situation the United States faces as cases of the novel coronavirus continue to spread. “The current state is really not good,” the highly respected Fauci, head…

NEW YORK, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) –– Harvard and MIT asked a court to block an order by President Donald Trump’s administrationthreatening the visas of foreign students whose entire courses havemoved online because of the coronavirus pandemic. The universities’ lawsuit was in response to an announcement Mondayby the US Immigration and…

SANTO DOMINGO, July 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Opposition candidate Luis Abinader swept to victory in the Dominican Republic’s presidential election, ending 16 years of unbroken rule by the Caribbean nation’s PLD party after voters braved a worsening coronavirus outbreak to cast their ballots. Abinader, the candidate of the Modern Revolutionary Party…

WASHINGTON, July 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States passed another grim coronavirus milestone Monday as the death toll from the virus climbed past 130,000, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The country also posted a worrying number of new daily infections, at 54,999 — a few thousand…

BUENOS AIRES, July 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A giant 70 million year old fossil of a fish that lived amongst dinosaurs has been discovered in Argentine Patagonia, a team of researchers said. Argentine paleontologists “found the remains of a predator fish that was more than six meters long,” the researchers said…

BRASILIA, July 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who has long minimized the risks posed by the coronavirus, said he had been tested after showing symptoms including a fever. Bolsonaro said that he underwent an X-ray of his lungs at a military hospital as a precaution, and that the…

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases WASHINGTON, July 7 (NNN-Xinhua) — Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious-diseases expert, warned on Monday “the current state is really not good.” “We had been in a situation [where] we were averaging about 20,000 new cases a…