![US Sets New Record for Increase in COVID-19 Cases Day after Election](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/04/1399010413523123719968462.jpg)
![US Sets New Record for Increase in COVID-19 Cases Day after Election](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/04/1399010413523123719968462.jpg)
![Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Results Due Next Month, Raising Hopes of 2021 Rollout](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/02/30/1399023010264234020439252.jpg)
Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Results Due Next Month, Raising Hopes of 2021 Rollout
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The University of Oxford hopes to present late-stage trial results on its COVID-19 vaccine candidate this year, raising hopes that Britain could start to roll out a successful vaccine in late December or early 2021.
![China's Fosun to End BioNTech's COVID-19 Vaccine Trial, Seek Approval for Another](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/05/13/1399051316292814620884862.jpg)
China's Fosun to End BioNTech's COVID-19 Vaccine Trial, Seek Approval for Another
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – BioNTech's Chinese partner Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group does not plan to run further clinical trials of the German firm's coronavirus vaccine candidate that has completed early-stage trials in China, an executive said.
![US Coronavirus Hospitalizations Hit Three-Month High over 50,000](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/03/25/139903251549146420594882.jpg)
US Coronavirus Hospitalizations Hit Three-Month High over 50,000
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The number of coronavirus patients in US hospitals reached 50,000 on Tuesday, the highest level in nearly three months, as a surge in infections threatens to push the nation's health care system to the edge of capacity.
![Covid Admissions to England Hospital Jump 60% in 10 Days, Leak Reveals](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/04/1399010410461045419966642.jpg)
Covid Admissions to England Hospital Jump 60% in 10 Days, Leak Reveals
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The number of patients admitted to hospital wards in England has jumped more than 60 per cent in just 10 days, new leaked NHS data seen by The Independent has revealed.
![Donald Trump Threatens to Fire Top US Disease Expert in Rift over Coronavirus](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/07/1399010710542698919992482.jpg)
Donald Trump Threatens to Fire Top US Disease Expert in Rift over Coronavirus
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – US President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after Tuesday’s election, as his rift with the country’s top infectious disease expert widens while the nation sees its most alarming outbreak of the coronavirus since the spring.
![Europe Imposes New Virus Curbs as Exasperation, Anger Grows](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1398/12/24/1398122422083080719913622.jpg)
Europe Imposes New Virus Curbs as Exasperation, Anger Grows
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Germany on Monday led a further tightening of coronavirus restrictions in Europe that have triggered anger and frustration across the continent, while the COVID-19 crisis in the United States deepened.
![WHO Chief in Quarantine After Contact Tests Positive for COVID-19](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1398/11/23/1398112309404135119665512.jpg)
WHO Chief in Quarantine After Contact Tests Positive for COVID-19
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The World Health Organization chief said late Sunday that he was self-quarantining after someone he had been in contact with tested positive for COVID-19, but stressed he had no symptoms.
![18 Trump Rallies Likely Led to 700 COVID-19 Deaths: Stanford University Study](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/08/10/1399081023071771121537572.jpg)
18 Trump Rallies Likely Led to 700 COVID-19 Deaths: Stanford University Study
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A new study from Stanford University found that 18 of US President Trump’s campaign rallies have led to over 30,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and likely led to over 700 deaths.
![Coronavirus: Boris Johnson Considering Lockdown for England](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/24/1399012420281760420123822.jpg)
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson Considering Lockdown for England
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The UK prime minister is considering new national lockdown restrictions, which could be imposed in England as early as next week.
![More than 150 Evacuated from Russian Coronavirus Hospital after Fire](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/02/23/1399022315365359720376302.jpg)
More than 150 Evacuated from Russian Coronavirus Hospital after Fire
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – More than 150 patients were evacuated on Saturday from a makeshift coronavirus hospital in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in the southern Urals following an oxygen explosion and fire, the country’s Emergency Ministry said.
![US Reports World Record of More than 100,000 COVID-19 Cases in Single Day](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/04/1399010413523123719968462.jpg)
US Reports World Record of More than 100,000 COVID-19 Cases in Single Day
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The United States set a new all-time high for coronavirus cases confirmed in a single 24-hour period on Friday, reporting just over 100,000 new infections to surpass the record total of 91,000 posted a day earlier.
![France Back in Coronavirus Lockdown as US Surges to Daily Record](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/20/139901200943582320083682.jpg)
France Back in Coronavirus Lockdown as US Surges to Daily Record
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - France headed into a second lockdown on Friday as the resurgent coronavirus pandemic hit new heights in the United States with a daily record of more than 90,000 cases, just five days before the US presidential election.
![GSK, Sanofi to Make 200 Million Doses Available for COVID-19 Vaccine Alliance](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/05/13/1399051316292814620884862.jpg)
GSK, Sanofi to Make 200 Million Doses Available for COVID-19 Vaccine Alliance
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – French drugmaker Sanofi SA and Britain's GlaxoSmithKline plan to make 200 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate available to the vaccine allocation plan co-led by GAVI and the World Health Organization.
![Italy Okays Trial of Osteoporosis Drug to Treat COVID-19](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/05/13/1399051316292814620884862.jpg)
Italy Okays Trial of Osteoporosis Drug to Treat COVID-19
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Italy's main medicines regulator gave the go-ahead on Tuesday for human clinical trials on raloxifene, a generic osteoporosis drug that researchers hope may also help reduce COVID-19 symptoms and make patients less infectious.
![German Minister Expects 20,000 New Daily Coronavirus Cases at End of Week](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/04/1399010414043064519968512.jpg)
German Minister Expects 20,000 New Daily Coronavirus Cases at End of Week
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The number of new coronavirus infections in Germany is likely to reach 20,000 a day at the end of this week, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said on Tuesday.
![New French COVID-19 Cases Could Be 100,000 Per Day: Govt Medical Adviser](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1398/12/25/1398122523511030019921602.jpg)
New French COVID-19 Cases Could Be 100,000 Per Day: Govt Medical Adviser
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – France may be experiencing 100,000 new COVID-19 cases per day — twice the latest official figure — Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, who heads the scientific council that advises the government on the pandemic, said on Monday.
![White House Chief of Staff: 'We Are Not Going to Control Pandemic'](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/07/11/1399071118383192121352172.jpg)
White House Chief of Staff: 'We Are Not Going to Control Pandemic'
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that the US is "not going to control" the coronavirus pandemic, as cases surge across the country and nearly 225,000 Americans have died from the virus.
![Oxford COVID Vaccine Trials Offer Hope for Elderly](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/05/13/1399051316292814620884862.jpg)
Oxford COVID Vaccine Trials Offer Hope for Elderly
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A vaccine considered a frontrunner in the race to protect the global population from COVID-19 has produced a robust immune response in elderly people, the group at highest risk from the disease, according to two people familiar with the finding.
![US Expert Dr. Anthony Fauci Claims Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be Declared Safe by December](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/04/17/1399041712005139620738012.jpg)