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Pandemic delays cancer R&D, Australia hopes pilot scheme will restart its education sector, Tourist-starved Caribbean woos homebound workers and other-pandemic related news across the globe

Pandemic delays cancer advances

Major advances in cancer research face being delayed by nearly a year and a half due to the pandemic, a study has found. Lockdown, the closure of laboratories and a shift in research funding from cancer to Covid-19 have hampered efforts in the fight against the disease. A survey of 239 researchers by the Institute of Cancer Research in London found that the organisation’s own progress would be pushed back by an average of six months. Read more

Let's look at the global statistics

Global infections: 62,739,306

Change over Yesterday: 473,391

Global deaths: 1,459,317

Nations with most cases: US (13,383,320),