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Iran calls off Quds Day anti-Israel rallies due to coronavirus
[IsraelTimes] Marked by demonstrations against Jewish state and in support for Palestinians, event is held on the last Friday of Ramadan, which this year is May 22.
World leaders pledge $8 billion for coronavirus vaccine research
[IsraelTimes] International video-conference fundraiser hosted by EU draws donations from across the globe, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...warns it is just a ’down payment’ for beating the disease.
Notably absent from the event were the United States, where more than 67,000 people have died, and Russia.
| We’re self-funding our own research, but y’all carry on if that makes you happy. |
People in many countries across the globe, and notably in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
this week, are cautiously returning to work, but authorities remain wary of a second wave of infections, and a vaccine is the only real golden bullet to allow something like normal life to resume.
| ...assuming that a vaccine will be discovered. But until then, treatments that ease the symptoms as the body fights off the infection are also being discovered— and that’s all we get for most viruses... |
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US government’s top expert, has cautioned that even if everything goes perfectly, developing a vaccine in 12 to 18 months would set a record for speed.
Even if a first useful vaccine is identified, there will not be enough for everyone initially. A growing number of vaccine makers say that they are already starting to brew tons of doses — wasting millions of dollars if they bet on the wrong candidate, but shaving a few months off mass vaccinations if their choice pans out.
Asked about the US absence, which comes after it suspended funding to the World Health Organization, a bigwig said that "the United States is in the process of providing $2.4 billion in global health, humanitarian, and economic assistance towards the COVID-19 response, and we continue to ensure that the substantial US funding and scientific efforts on this front remain an essential and coordinated part of this worldwide effort against COVID-19."
The official was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Iran reopens mosques, records almost 80,00 hospital recoveries