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Always remember to take off rings and watches before washing your hands and to clean them often as well.

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Ambev turns Brazil beer brewery into sanitizer plant to help coronavirus fight

With alcohol gel supplies increasingly stretched, Ambev SA said on Tuesday it will use one of its Brazil beer breweries to produce half a million sanitizer bottles for public hospitals to fight the spread of coronavirus.

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Researchers in Australia said Tuesday they had mapped the body's immune response to the novel coronavirus, in a potential breakthrough in the fight against the global killer.

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This handout illustration image obtained Feb. 27, 2020 courtesy of the US Food and Drug Administration shows the coronavirus,COVID-19.

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New coronavirus can survive on surfaces for hours: Study

Scientists found that the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease had similar levels of viability outside the body to its predecessor that caused SARS.

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Scientists who have investigated mother-to-baby viral transmission in previous coronavirus outbreaks have also found no evidence that mothers can pass the virus onto their children.

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COVID-19 not transmitted from pregnant mothers to newborns, suggest recent case studies

Chinese scientists have found that the coronavirus disease COVID-19 does not appear to be transmitted from pregnant mothers to newborns at birth.

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Now that a number of institutions and laboratories have been authorized to conduct COVID-19 tests, here’s what you can do if you think you are infected.

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A picture taken in a laboratory of the National Reference Center (CNR) for respiratory viruses at the Institut Pasteur in Paris on January 28, 2020 shows a biohazard sticker on the entrance of a room.

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Of the first 99 people with severe infection, three-quarters had pneumonia involving both lungs.

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Australian researchers map immune response to coronavirus

By examining the blood results from an unidentified woman in her 40s, they discovered that people's immune systems respond to coronavirus in the same way it typically fights flu.

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Carried out by researchers at the University of Miami, USA, the new study looked at 95 infants and observed their attachment to one of their parents at 15 months of age in order to assign them one of four different attachment classifications.

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New study finds that a certain attachment behavior in babies could be linked to autism

A new, first of its kind study has found that children who show a behavior called insecure-resistant attachment as a baby and who have an older sibling with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely to be diagnosed with ASD themselves.

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According to Benjamin Neuman, a virologist at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, immunizing against the pathogen is a long shot: There has never been a very successful human vaccine against any member of the coronavirus family.

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Coronavirus drugs: Who's doing what, and when they might come

Pharmaceuticals and research labs across the world are racing to find vaccines and treatments for the new coronavirus, using a variety of different technologies.

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Showing support: A sign is displayed in the therapy room of the Indonesian Care for Schizophrenia (KPSI) community, a support group for people with schizophrenia and their families set up in 2011.

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Untold stories: Seeking the truth about mental illness

Many problems arise not from mental illness itself, but the lack of accessible information to help families understand their rights and the nature of a disorder.

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Haj Mohamed, a Tunisian herbalist, displays his medicinal plants at his shop at Souk el-Blat, in the Medina (old city) of Tunisia's capital Tunis, on March 14, 2020.

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Tunisia herbalists cash in on coronavirus fear

There is no known cure for the new coronavirus, but in the medicinal herbs souq in Tunis, anxious Tunisians are consulting with herbalists and stocking up on traditional remedies.

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England will join a growing list of countries offering HIV-prevention pill to all those at high risk of catching the virus, in a move hailed as a "milestone moment" by health campaigners.

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England joins nations offering HIV prevention pill to all at high risk

England will join a growing list of countries offering HIV-prevention pill to all those at high risk of catching the virus, in a move hailed as a "milestone moment" by health campaigners.

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Japan's Kurabo to sell kits to detect new coronavirus in 15 minutes

Textile and chemical product maker Kurabo Industries Ltd. said Thursday it will import and sell in Japan from next week test kits developed by a Chinese firm that can detect new coronavirus in 15 minutes, far shorter than the current method.

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According to the paper, US President Donald Trump is trying to poach German scientists working on an experimental vaccine against a global health threat that has now killed some 5,500 people with a view to having an exclusive licence rolled out in the United States.

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US, Germany battle for virus vaccine supremacy

The United States and Germany are vying to produce an exclusive vaccine against the coronavirus which is being developed in a German laboratory, Die Welt daily reported Saturday

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COVID-19: Not all hand sanitizers work against it – here’s what you should use

With shortages leading some people to try and make their own hand sanitizers, it’s also important to know these might not be as effective as commercially available products.

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An isolate from the first US case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV or novel coronavirus, is seen in a transmission electron microscopic image obtained from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, US on Tuesday.

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Coronavirus can live in patients for five weeks after contagion

Patients with the new coronavirus keep the pathogen in their respiratory tract for as long as 37 days, a new study found, suggesting they could remain infectious for many weeks.

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Could your personality influence your risk of Alzheimer's disease?

New European research has found that certain personality traits may influence an individual's risk of Alzheimer's disease.

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Is novel coronavirus a kind of flu?

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Sleep, or a lack of it, could be affecting the academic performance of kids in school, and our own performance at work according to recent research.

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Four reasons to try to get a better night’s sleep

Sleep is now known to be an essential part of good health, and yet an increasing number of us don’t get enough good quality shut-eye.

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Elizabeth Schneider poses for AFP at her house in Seattle, Washington on March 11, 2020.

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'Don't panic' says US woman who recovered from coronavirus

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'Smokers in Indonesia are at high risk for COVID-19': WHO

Smoking, in any form, can increase the risk of “severe or critical” infection with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

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In a study from mid-February of 44,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in and around the city of Wuhan, where the pandemic began, the 10-to-19 age bracket made up one percent of infections and a single death. Patients under 10 comprised less than one percent, with no deaths reported.

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Children less sick from COVID-19, but still spread the virus

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Gay dating apps warn over coronavirus as online meetings expected to rise

Leading LGBT+ dating websites are warning users to take precautions to avoid contracting coronavirus but are expecting an uptick in traffic as millions of people move online to talk rather than meet face-to-face in bars and clubs.

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