Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Russia halts uptake of new volunteers in Sputnik V vaccine trial - TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russa's Health Ministry said on Wednesday it was halting the uptake of new volunteers in its main trial of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, the TASS news agency reported. The...
Dec 23, 2020
Britain approves use of COVID-19 self-test kit
(Reuters) - Britain on Wednesday approved the exceptional use of the National Health Service test and trace COVID-19 self-test kit to detect asymptomatic coronavirus cases, as it mulls a stricter lock...
Dec 23, 2020
Sinovac shareholder settles compliance probe with SEC
(Reuters) - Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech Ltd's shareholder 1Globe Capital LLC said on Wednesday it had settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission an investigation into its regul...
Dec 23, 2020
Indonesian military says troops suspected of killing 2 Papuan civilians
By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's military on Wednesday named nine soldiers as suspects in the killing in April of two civilians in the country's Papua region, as part of a state pro...
Dec 23, 2020
COVID testing chaos infuriates stranded truckers in English port
By Ben Makori and Gerhard Mey DOVER, England (Reuters) - Truck drivers trapped along hundreds of miles of roads near the southern English port of Dover are facing a riddle: to travel to France they mu...
Dec 23, 2020
Swiss report more than 5,000 new coronavirus cases
ZURICH (Reuters) - Coronavirus infections rose by 5,033 in a day, data https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/overview from Swiss health authorities showed on Wednesday, as Switzerland began selected vaccina...
Dec 23, 2020
New coronavirus variant not detected in Japan, says government panel
TOKYO (Reuters) - The infectious coronavirus variant spreading in Britain has not been detected in Japan, members of the Japanese government's expert panel on coronavirus responses said on Wednesday. ...
Dec 23, 2020
Britain's fresh food supply at risk until Dover backlog cleared
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - British supplies of some fresh food, mainly fruit and vegetables, are at risk of running out until a backlog of trucks at the port of Dover is cleared and links with ...
Dec 23, 2020
Irish cabinet restricts movements after minister contracts COVID-19
DUBLIN (Reuters) - All members of Ireland's cabinet are restricting their movements while awaiting COVID-19 tests after an unnamed minister contracted the virus, the government said in a statement on ...
Dec 23, 2020
French President Macron improving after COVID diagnosis - presidency
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron's health is showing signs of improvement after he tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 17, his office said on Wednesday. Macron has been has been sel...
Dec 23, 2020
