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A health expert affiliated with the World Health Organization has called on the US to share any intelligence it has about the origins of the coronavirus outbreak with the WHO and the scientific community.
Last week the Wall Street Journal cited US intelligence agencies who said they were told that three unnamed members of staff at a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan were sick enough to go hospital in November 2019 with Covid-like symptoms.
US intelligence chiefs later stressed they did not know how the virus was transmitted initially, but that they had two theories: either it emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals, or it was a laboratory accident.
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WOONSOCKET, Rhode Island CVS Health is now accepting walk-in customers for COVID-19 vaccinations at all 8,300 of its stores that are doling out shots.
The drugstore chain started accepting customers with no appointments this week. It also is offering same-day day appointments, which Walgreens started on Wednesday. Walgreens is also accepting walk-ins and expects to offer vaccines at all 9,200 of its U.S. stores by this weekend.
We believe that we can break the transmission chains, he told CNBC s Street Signs Asia on Wednesday. With pretty sophisticated and thorough contact tracing, together with the quarantine of the contacts and the isolation of the cases, I would have confidence that we d start to see things improving over the next couple of weeks, said Fisher, who is also a professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore.
The country s multi-ministry task force announced Tuesday that tighter restrictions will be reimposed from May 8 through to May 30. The Straits Times index was down 1.04% on Wednesday afternoon.