Coronavirus tracker: From human trials at Oxford to painted murals at Bristol!
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Oxford university has started human trials for a potential COVID-19 vaccine. Two volunteers have been injected as part of the trial out of a group of 800.
They will be monitored for 48 hours. Scientists will then gradually start injecting more volunteers.
The team started research on a COVID-19 vaccine in February and hopes to have a vaccine ready by September.
Hundreds of Hong Kong students appeared for their final secondary school exams on Friday.
The students were asked to arrive early to have their temperatures checked and their desks were placed about 6 feet apart.
The number of cases in the city has come down. But social distancing measures remain in place.
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On Monday, the city reported no new cases for the first time since early March.
Russia is all set to open a temporary hospital in St Petersburg for coronavirus patients by the end of the week.
The facility will have over 1,000 beds.
The Defence Ministry is building 16 brand new hospitals across the country which are expected to be ready by mid-May.
Wearing masks is now mandatory in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro to curb the spread of COVID-19.
To encourage people to follow the rule, the state authorities decorated about 40 statues with masks. Brazil has recorded over 49,000 confirmed cases.
On Thursday, demonstrators in Washington DC placed fake body bags outside the trump hotel. Expressing their anger against the mounting coronavirus death toll.
Chanting slogans like "Trump lies, people die!", the protesters called for trump's resignation over his handling of the crisis.
The United State's tally is now nearing 900,000 cases, and nearly 50,000 people have been killed by the virus.
Separated by a transparent plastic barrier, residents of a French nursing home reunited with their family members for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak.
The French government has relaxed restrictions on visits to retirement homes. 8,309 people have died from coronavirus-related illnesses in French nursing homes --- accounting for 60% of France's total death toll.
An auto-rickshaw resembling the coronavirus is on a mission in southern India.
Through loudspeaker announcements, it is spreading awareness in Chennai city on how littering and spitting contribute to the spread of the virus.
Street artist Banksy's famous mural "girl with a pierced eardrum" now has a COVID-19 facelift.
The mural now wears a blue surgical face mask. The mural was painted on a building in the artist's home city of Bristol in England in 2014. Whether the addition has been made by the artist is not known.