Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Alaska’s Iditarod sled-dog race rerouted due to COVID-19 pandemic
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska will not run to Nome in 2021, a drastic change called necessary to protect the mushers from the COVID...
Dec 18, 2020
Hong Kong manhunt underway for escaped COVID-19 patient
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong authorities are searching for a COVID-19 positive patient who escaped one of the city's largest hospitals while undergoing treatment, according to health officials. The...
Dec 18, 2020
FDA says five people in U.S. had allergic reactions after Pfizer shot
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Around five recipients of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine in the United States have had allergic reactions this week, a top U.S. Food and Drug Administration officia...
Dec 18, 2020
Charlie Woods ready to steal show at family event
The must-see practice round of the year took place Friday at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando Grande Lakes course and it only was partially because Tiger Woods was involved. Woods and his 11-year-ol...
Dec 18, 2020
Landslide at Vale mine near 2019 disaster site kills one in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A landslide at a mine owned by Brazil's Vale SA near the site of the 2019 Brumadinho dam disaster buried and killed a worker on Friday, the company told Reuters in a stateme...
Dec 18, 2020
Parts of Australia’s Sydney put into strict COVID-19 lockdown
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Around a quarter of a million people in Sydney's northern beaches were ordered on Saturday to stay at home until Wednesday midnight after a coronavirus cluster grew by 13 new cas...
Dec 18, 2020
China reports 17 new COVID-19 cases vs 12 a day earlier
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Mainland China recorded 17 new COVID-19 cases on Dec. 18, up from 12 a day earlier, the country's health authority said on Saturday. The National Health Commission said in its dai...
Dec 18, 2020
Brazil governors urge extension of COVID-19 emergency measures
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Governors from 17 Brazilian states urged President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday to extend a "state of public calamity" due to the COVID-19 pandemic now set to expire at the end ...
Dec 18, 2020
Explainer: How the Moderna vaccine stacks up against Pfizer/BioNTech’s
By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators authorized Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday, a week after granting the first U.S. authorization to Pfizer Inc and BioNTe...
Dec 18, 2020
Fairbanks clinician is third Alaskan with adverse reaction to COVID-19 vaccine
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A Fairbanks clinician suffered anaphylactic symptoms after being given the Pfizer Inc coronavirus vaccine, a hospital said on Friday, becoming the third A...
Dec 18, 2020
