Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Britain puts more areas into lockdown as cases rise
By Kate Holton and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - Britain put more of northwest England into the highest COVID alert level on Friday in the face of rising case numbers as Prime Minister Boris Johns...
Oct 16, 2020
Mobile gaming company Playtika confidentially files for IPO
(Reuters) - Playtika Ltd, a mobile gaming company owned by a Chinese investor group, said on Friday it has confidentially submitted paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an in...
Oct 16, 2020
Pakistan opposition starts countrywide protests to oust government
By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Supporters of Pakistan opposition parties were converging on a stadium in the city of Gujwanwala on Friday to begin a countrywide protest campaign to o...
Oct 16, 2020
Analysis: Japan's ANA charts course through COVID with loans, domestic flights and accounting rules
By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's biggest airline, ANA, has turned to billions of dollars in loans and a government tourism campaign to weather the slump in air travel and could take advantage of...
Oct 16, 2020
Belgium to tighten COVID-19 restrictions as cases soar
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium is expected to tighten restrictive measures at a government meeting on COVID-19 on Friday as infections soar and hospitals risk running out of beds. Heal...
Oct 16, 2020
COVID research into wormwood gives Bosnian herbalist a boost
By Daria Sito-Sucic and Lukas Kuite LJUBINJE, Bosnia/POTSDAM, Germany (Reuters) - After years of struggling for business in the sunny southeastern corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina, herbalist Petar Mih...
Oct 16, 2020
GSK-J&J's long-acting HIV injection gets EU panel endorsement
(Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc said an injection of its cabotegravir drug given every two months, in combination with Johnson & Johnson's rilpivirine, was recommended for approval to treat HIV infect...
Oct 16, 2020
UK 'R' rate edges up to 1.3-1.5 but infection growth slows
LONDON (Reuters) - The UK's COVID-19 reproduction "R" number edged up to 1.3-1.5 from 1.2-1.5, government scientists said on Friday, meaning on average every 10 people infected will infect between 13 ...
Oct 16, 2020
Britain changes vaccine rollout measures for COVID and flu
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it had changed its rules around administering and distributing vaccines to make the speedy rollout of any COVID-19 vaccine easier and increase the number of p...
Oct 16, 2020
Wider Image: Jailed Philippine activist lays to rest her three-month-old baby
By Adrian Portugal and Eloisa Lopez MANILA (Reuters) - Jailed Philippine activist Reina Mae Nasino wanted to hold her three-month-old daughter for the last time before she was laid to rest on Friday b...
Oct 16, 2020
