What's News: World-Wide -- WSJ

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Public-health experts are increasingly calling for a shift in thinking about Covid-19 testing, saying it is better to get fast, frequent results that are reasonably accurate than more precise results after dayslong delays.

Nine drugmakers said their CEOs signed a pledge to not file for regulatory approval or authorization of their experimental Covid-19 vaccines until the shots are shown to work safely.

AstraZeneca said it paused clinical trials of an experimental vaccine after a participant in a U.K. study had an unexplained illness.

Senate Republicans proposed a new, smaller package of coronavirus aid aimed at unifying the party and bolstering it politically, as talks with Democrats remained at a standstill.

The police chief of Rochester, N.Y., and two deputy chiefs resigned after days of protests and mounting criticism over the death of Daniel Prude.

Powerful windstorms in California are creating more dangerous conditions as firefighters work to contain wildfires that have already burned a record 2.3 million acres.

The Indian and Chinese militaries accused each other of firing warning shots in what would be the first use of guns along their disputed border in decades.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

September 09, 2020 02:47 ET (06:47 GMT)

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