Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Spain will administer two doses of BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, minister says
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's central health authority will continue to recommend administering two doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine in the period indicated by its manufacturers, health minister Salv...
Jan 04, 2021
Breakthrough reached in Gulf dispute with Qatar: senior Trump administration official
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A breakthrough has been reached in Qatar's three-year-old with Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries and an agreement to end their rift is to be signed in...
Jan 04, 2021
Lebanon orders three-week lockdown to fight virus spread
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon announced a full lockdown for three weeks, including a night curfew, to stem a rise in COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals in a country already facing ...
Jan 04, 2021
Brazil diplomats press to secure vaccine made in India, says Fiocruz
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Foreign Ministry is leading talks to secure doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine made in India, the country's government-funded Fiocruz Institute said o...
Jan 04, 2021
France’s new COVID cases sharply down, hospitalisations up again
PARIS (Reuters) - The French health ministry reported 4,022 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours on Monday, a figure three times lower as Sunday's 12,489 but higher than last Monday's 2,9...
Jan 04, 2021
Greece’s Orthodox Church defies Epiphany lockdown order
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's Orthodox Church said on Monday it would defy a government lockdown order imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus and open churches to the faithful during the Epiphan...
Jan 04, 2021
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare joint venture to shut business next month
(Reuters) - The healthcare joint venture of Amazon.com Inc, Berkshire Hathaway Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co, will cease to exist at the end of February, it said on Monday. The move comes three years af...
Jan 04, 2021
New York to fine hospitals that fail to deploy COVID-19 vaccine within a week: governor
(Reuters) - New York state will begin fining hospitals that do not administer allotted COVID-19 vaccines within a week of receiving their supplies and will decline to provide them with further doses, ...
Jan 04, 2021
Hedge fund manager Scaramucci launches cryptocurrency fund
By Maiya Keidan (Reuters) - Anthony Scaramucci's firm SkyBridge Capital is the latest traditional fund manager to launch a bitcoin-focused fund after a surge of interest in cryptocurrencies in 2020. S...
Jan 04, 2021
EU says interval between Pfizer vaccine doses should be respected
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Medicines Agency said on Monday that the maximum interval of 42 days between the first and the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine should be respected to obtai...
Jan 04, 2021
