Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Pakistan shuts schools to curb new coronavirus infections
By Umar Farooq ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan shut its schools and postponed exams on Thursday to try to curb new coronavirus infections and a rise in the number of people in hospital with COVID-19. S...
Nov 26, 2020
COVID-19 cases fell 9% in latest week in England - tracing system
LONDON (Reuters) - Positive COVID-19 cases in England fell 9% in the latest week in England, the country's test and tracing system said on Thursday, as contacts of the cases successfully traced still ...
Nov 26, 2020
French health minister confirms vaccination could start by end of year
PARIS (Reuters) - French Health Minister Oliver Veran confirmed on Thursday France could start rolling out COVID-19 vaccines by the end of the year, stressing the need for authorities to be transparen...
Nov 26, 2020
Belarusian medallist, facing crackdown at home, clings to Olympic comeback dream
By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - Decathlete Andrei Krauchanka knows that reaching the Olympics is seldom an adversity-free path, but the political crisis in his native Belarus has made h...
Nov 26, 2020
Putin opens COVID-19 drug plant as Russia reports daily record for cases, deaths
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday inaugurated a pharmaceutical plant in Siberia that will manufacture drugs to treat COVID-19 as the country reported record high numbers ...
Nov 26, 2020
Georgia introduces new restrictions for two months to curb COVID-19
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia is to introduce more coronavirus restrictions including new curfew hours, the closure of most shops, restaurants, swimming pools and gyms and the restriction of transport a...
Nov 26, 2020
Defense to finish pressing Canada police supervisor on Huawei CFO's arrest
By Sarah Berman VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou will further press the Canadian police supervisor in charge of her arrest two years ago, as witness testim...
Nov 26, 2020
Biden, Trump plan quiet Thanksgiving celebrations at home as pandemic rages
By Simon Lewis and Jeff Mason REHOBOTH BEACH, Del./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and sitting Republican President Donald Trump, like hundreds of millions of Americans, pl...
Nov 26, 2020
America celebrates scaled-back Thanksgiving as COVID-19 surges
(Reuters) - Americans awoke on Thursday to celebrate a Thanksgiving Day transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, with the Macy's parade limited to a television-only event and many families resigned to...
Nov 26, 2020
Prevalence of COVID-19 infections in England fell last week - ONS survey
LONDON (Reuters) - The prevalence of COVID-19 infections in England have fallen slightly, with 633,000 infections in the latest week to Nov. 21 from 664,700 the week before, the Office for National St...
Nov 26, 2020
