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Top Reads this Week (16 Aug)
By Financial Horse  •  August 16, 2020
Rounding up top reads from around the web, including articles shared by fellow investors in the Financial Horse Facebook Group.

First Singapore volunteers given locally co-developed Covid-19 vaccine in trial (Straits Times)

The first cohort of local volunteers has been dosed with a coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by Duke-NUS Medical School and United States pharmaceutical company Arcturus Therapeutics. Arcturus said in a statement on Tuesday (Aug 11) that this first phase of the trial involved volunteers aged between 21 and 55, who were injected with a single shot of the vaccine. Lunar-Cov19 contains genetic material called mRNA, which encodes part of the virus. Injected into a person, it causes the body’s cells to begin manufacturing a protein similar to that of the virus, allowing the body to recognise and learn to fight it.

800 migrant workers newly quarantined after case discovered in cleared dormitory (Straits Times)

Although the Inter-Agency Taskforce has completed...
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