The health authority of China confirmed three new coronavirus cases in the mainland for July 1st became a total of 83,537 confirmed coronavirus cases.
There were no new deaths. The death toll from the coronavirus remained at 4,634 in China.
The first human trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine developed in Australia are about to begin in Adelaide.
Vaccine research director Professor Nikolai Petrovsky said the human trials beginning in Adelaide today were the first for a vaccine developed in the southern hemisphere.
He said “I am very confident there will be successful vaccines against COVID-19.”
Today French diagnostics company “Eurofins Technologies” announced the launch of new devices aimed at testing for the presence of coronavirus.
This testing devices aim to identify a person’s past exposure to the virus, SARS-CoV-2, in 10 minutes.
According to a Reuters tally on Monday, the death toll from the coronavirus reached over 120,000 in the United States.
Total U.S. coronavirus cases are over 2.2 million, the highest in the world, followed by Brazil with more than 1 million cases, and infections are rapidly rising in India.
The National Rugby League (NRL) has shifted a match away from Melbourne due to a spike in Coronavirus cases in the southern Australian city.
Storm CEO Dave Donaghy said we have some COVID-19 hotspots in Victoria has made it difficult for our team and visiting teams to continue playing at AAMI Park in the short term.
Two Melbourne primary schools have shut down after two students tested positive for coronavirus for three days.
Students currently learning onsite are advised to remain at home while contact tracing occurs. The school will undergo a deep clean over the next three days.
Premier Warns warned that NSW is yet to feel the “severe” economic consequences of COVID-19, despite the biggest contraction in its economy in 20 years.
This week the State Government dumped its plan to renovate Sydney Olympic Stadium, so the $810 million earmarked for that project could be directed into a $3 billion infrastructure fund, which aims to generate 20,000 jobs.
The University of Southern Denmark announced on Wednesday that Danish researchers had developed the world’s first fully automatic robot capable of carrying out throat swabs for Coronavirus so that healthcare professionals are not exposed to the risk of infection.
