Author Archives: Syndicated Content

(Reuters) - European medicines regulator said on Wednesday its safety committee is reviewing the issue leading to Austria's decision to suspend a batch of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and that its p...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be allowed to return home to be with her fa...

PARIS (Reuters) - French health authorities reported 30,303 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours on Wednesday, sharply up from Tuesday's 23,302 and last Wednesday's 26,788, figures that s...

By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - A World Trade Organization (WTO) council is meeting this week to discuss a proposal by India and South Africa that COVID-19 vaccine patents be suspended to speed up t...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Truckmaker Scania, part of Volkswagen AG's commercial vehicle arm Traton SE, might have to stop production as a shortage of semi-conductors threatens deliveries, Swedish media qu...

By Jamie McGeever and Eduardo Simes BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Preliminary data from a study in Brazil indicates that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd is effective aga...

By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) - The speaker of Tunisia's parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, said he backs calls for a new national dialogue to address the country's political standoff ...

By Arno Schuetze and Ilona Wissenbach FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lufthansa is planning to launch an asset disposal programme as early as summer with the sale of its 1 billion euro ($1.19 billion) Airplus u...

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported 332 coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday against 376 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections rose to 22,409 from 19,749 th...

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska has become the first U.S. state to make COVID-19 vaccines available to anyone age 16 or older, eliminating eligibility requirements for people who ...