Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine effective, safe: FDA staff
(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson's one-shot COVID-19 vaccine appeared safe and effective in trials, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff said in documents published on Wednesday, paving the way ...
Feb 24, 2021
Italy’s health minister rules out loosening of COVID-19 curbs
ROME (Reuters) - It is not yet possible to loosen restrictions on businesses and movement aimed at curbing COVID-19 infections in Italy because of the threat of a surge in cases, Health Minister Rober...
Feb 24, 2021
UK’s Reading and Leeds music festivals to go ahead this summer
LONDON (Reuters) - The Reading and Leeds music festivals will go ahead in England this summer after the government this week announced a timetable for relaxing coronavirus restrictions, the organisers...
Feb 24, 2021
Tokyo 2020 launches new gender equality team: Tokyo 2020 president
TOKYO (Reuters) - The new president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee said on Wednesday that it had set up a gender equality team and aimed to boost the proportion of women on the board ...
Feb 24, 2021
In Brazil, an indigenous woman joins Bolsonaro in fight for mining
By Stephen Eisenhammer RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL, Brazil (Reuters) - Irisnaide Silva is female, Brazilian and indigenous. And for once, in her view, she is being heard. For decades her family picked and pan...
Feb 24, 2021
Egypt registers Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Egypt has approved Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, becoming the 34th country outside of Russia and third in North Africa to do so, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (R...
Feb 24, 2021
UK’s Sunak to build bridge to recovery with more spending
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak will next week promise yet more spending to prop up the economy during what he hopes will be the last phase of lockdown, bu...
Feb 24, 2021
South Africa ramps up vaccine spending in “balancing act” amid debt worries
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa could spend up to 19.3 billion rand ($1.33 billion) over the next three years to vaccinate most of its population, the Treasury said on Wednesday, in a "difficult ba...
Feb 24, 2021
Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus
(Reuters) - The World Health Organization's global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX delivered its first shots on Wednesday, as the race to get doses to the world's poorest people and tame the pandemic acc...
Feb 24, 2021
ABB’s robots to meet post pandemic demand for workforce that never gets sick
By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) - ABB unveiled two additions to its robot family on Wednesday which the Swiss engineering company expects will tap into increased demand for automated production after ...
Feb 24, 2021
