Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China plans set up of new disease control agency in COVID-19 aftermath -Caixin
(Reuters) - China is considering setting up a new disease control agency as part of its public health reforms following the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, Caixin reported on Monday. The government body wil...
Dec 14, 2020
Gmail or YouTube wouldn’t load? You weren’t alone
UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM) – The sudden outage of YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive has caused widespread panic on social media, prompting the hashtag #YouTubeDown to become a globally trending topic wi...
Dec 14, 2020
Pressure mounts on EU drug regulator to approve Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's drug regulator is under increasing pressure to quickly approve the COVID-19 vaccine developed by U.S. giant Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech, official...
Dec 14, 2020
Iran’s missile programme is non-negotiable, says Rouhani
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that Tehran's missile programme was non-negotiable and that U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden is "well aware of it". Biden appears to see...
Dec 14, 2020
Trial of azithromycin in severe COVID-19 patients finds no benefit
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A clinical trial of the widely-used antibiotic azithromycin in COVID-19 patients in hospital has found no convincing evidence of benefit, prompting doctors to announ...
Dec 14, 2020
AstraZeneca UK vaccine trial drops sub-group with children – U.S. trial register
(Reuters) - Drugmaker AstraZeneca has removed a study group comprising children from a trial of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Britain, clinical trial registers in the United States showed on Monda...
Dec 14, 2020
Swiss to investigate adoption system after scandal over Sri Lankan children
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland said it will review possibly illegal adoptions of foreign children, three years after a scandal flared over allegations that some Sri Lankan child adoptees may have been...
Dec 14, 2020
UK hopeful for EU trade deal, gaps still remain, says PM’s spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain continues to be hopeful that it can secure a trade agreement with the European Union but there are still gaps on key issues, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson sai...
Dec 14, 2020
Phillips 66 lowers 2021 spending budget after pandemic hit
(Reuters) - U.S. oil refiner Phillips 66 on Monday set its 2021 capital budget at $1.7 billion, around 43% lower than forecast for the previous year, as the energy industry struggles to recover from t...
Dec 14, 2020
J&J has applied to South Africa for registering COVID-19 vaccine -regulator
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's pharmaceutical regulator SAHPRA said on Monday it has received its first application to register a COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. "As of today we have re...
Dec 14, 2020
