Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Ouster, maker of self-driving tech, agrees $1.9 billion deal to go public
By Joshua Franklin and Paul Lienert (Reuters) - Ouster Inc, a U.S. startup that makes lidar sensors for self-driving cars and smart cities, said on Tuesday it has agreed to go public through a merger ...
Dec 22, 2020
Serbia gets first batch of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Nearly 5,000 doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccines were flown on Tuesday to Serbia, the first country in the Balkans to get a COVID-19 vaccine. State TV footage sh...
Dec 22, 2020
Confusion reigns as companies, industries try to navigate U.S. COVID-19 vaccine rollout
By Tina Bellon NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies and industry groups trying to move their workers to the front of the line for a COVID-19 vaccine remain confused about conflicting state and local gu...
Dec 22, 2020
Papal Christmas, New Year moved indoors because of coronavirus
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will read his Christmas message from inside the Vatican instead of from the outdoor central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica because of new coro...
Dec 22, 2020
In Greece, wastewater analysis gives clues to COVID-19 viral load
By Stelios Misinas ATHENS (Reuters) - Shortly before a surge in infections prompted Greece to impose a second coronavirus lockdown in early November, chemists at a wastewater treatment plant had alrea...
Dec 22, 2020
Airbus to be world's largest planemaker for second year
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus is set to beat Boeing to be the world's largest jetmaker for the second year in a row, ending 2020 by resuming deliveries of its A380 superjumbo to Emirates, tho...
Dec 22, 2020
Factbox-Where U.S. banks won and lost in the new pandemic relief package
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Monday was scrambling to pass a $900 billion pandemic aid package, following seven months of partisan bickering. The banking industry aggr...
Dec 22, 2020
Pollution deaths in India rose to 1.67 million in 2019 -Lancet
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Toxic air killed more people in India in 2019 than in 2017, The Lancet said in a report (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30298-9/fulltext) shar...
Dec 22, 2020
New coronavirus strain still not found in India - health official
BENGALURU (Reuters) - The new more transmissible strain of the coronavirus detected in Britain has not yet been found in India, a senior government official said on Tuesday, as health authorities prep...
Dec 22, 2020
Some U.S. Black pastors, key players in COVID education, are hesitating to push vaccine
By Gabriella Borter and Makini Brice NEW YORK (Reuters) - When a major healthcare organization asked A.R. Bernard, the Black head of a Brooklyn megachurch, to sit on a committee tasked with boosting a...
Dec 22, 2020
