Spain and Barcelona Great Xavi Tests Positive for COVID-19

Ottawa Told to Hurry Domestic Vaccine Funding Amid China Delays

OTTAWA—The Trudeau government is being pressed to approve funding for a made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine to lessen the risk Canadians will have to line up and wait on a foreign-made pandemic cure. For instance, health-care professionals have written to Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains to urge him make up his mind on a proposal submitted in April by Providence Therapeutics of Toronto. The company is seeking $35 million to establish whether its vaccine is effective in humans after successful animal trials. They say Canada has no guarantee it will be at the front of any line for an internationally produced pandemic cure. They attribute government’s slowness to a long-standing public policy problem: reluctance to partner with pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the same way it has tried to bolster other sectors. “When…

DOHA, Qatar—Former Spain and Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez has tested positive for the coronavirus.

The 40-year-old Xavi, now the coach of Qatari club Al-Sadd, said Saturday that he was tested according to the Qatar league protocol and that the latest test showed he had contracted COVID-19.

“Fortunately, I’m feeling OK, but I will be isolated until I am given the all-clear. When the health services allow it, I will be very eager to return to my daily routine and to work,” Xavi said on Instagram.

Al-Sadd announced on its website that Xavi would not be joining the rest of the team for its league game against Al-Khor later Saturday.

Spain and Barcelona Great Xavi Tests Positive for COVID-19

It is third-place Al-Sadd’s first game since the league was suspended in March due to the pandemic. The league resumed on Friday.

Qatar has recorded 109,036 positive cases and attributed 164 deaths to the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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Fugitive Chinese Researcher Harbored By Chinese Consulate Taken into Custody

A fugitive Chinese researcher who took refuge in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco has been taken in federal custody, according to online jail records. U.S. authorities had been seeking Tang Juan, a researcher at the University of California, David (UC Davis), who fled to the consulate after being questioned by FBI agents on June 20. She was charged on June 26 for allegedly lying in her visa application and concealing her status as a member of the Chinese military. Jail records show that U.S. Marshals arrested Tang on Thursday and she was detained overnight at the Sacramento County Main Jail. U.S. authorities are not allowed to enter foreign diplomatic missions without permission. It is not clear if Tang voluntarily surrendered herself to federal officers. The Justice Department and FBI…