Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK regulators say extra AstraZeneca vaccine data highlights efficacy in elderly
LONDON (Reuters) - British regulators have received extra trial data from AstraZeneca that supports their view that the COVID-19 vaccine developed with Oxford University is effective in the elderly, a...
Syndicated Content Feb 05, 2021
South Africa says term sheet signed for 9 million J&J vaccine doses
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's health ministry said on Friday that the government had signed off on a term sheet for 9 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine at $10 a dose. The mi...
Syndicated Content Feb 05, 2021
After Facebook ban, thousands in Myanmar take to Twitter to plead #RespectOurVotes
By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Since Myanmar's new military rulers imposed a temporary blockade on Facebook on Thursday, thousands in the Southeast Asian country have joined Twitter, according ...
Syndicated Content Feb 05, 2021
Palihapitiya-backed Clover Health gets notice of SEC investigation
(Reuters) - Chamath Palihapitiya-backed Clover Health Investments Corp said on Friday it had received a letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and that it intends to cooperate with th...
Syndicated Content Feb 05, 2021
Chinese researchers find natural mutation in African swine fever virus
By Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese scientists have found a natural mutation in the African swine fever virus they say could be less deadly than the strain that ravaged the world's largest...
Syndicated Content Feb 05, 2021
Guard kills Palestinian intruder in West Bank settlement: Israeli army
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - An Israeli security guard shot dead an unarmed Palestinian who tried to break into a house in a small settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Israel...
Syndicated Content Feb 05, 2021
Analysis: “Dollar smile” meets “dollar short”; greenback bounce threatens bears
By Saikat Chatterjee and Ira Iosebashvili LONDON (Reuters) - An unexpected dollar bounce and some indications of a broader resurgence are confounding market players who took bearish positions on the U...
Syndicated Content Feb 05, 2021
U.N. chief names Michael Bloomberg climate envoy to rally action
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reappointed former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as his special envoy on climate ambition and solutions on Friday "t...
Syndicated Content Feb 05, 2021
One U.S. company’s risky effort to build a new mask factory during COVID
By Timothy Aeppel LA VERNE, Calif. (Reuters) - Dan Izhaky is betting $4 million that the pandemic will change what Americans are willing to pay for high quality face masks from his new factory here in...
Syndicated Content Feb 05, 2021
Analysis: Europe in battle to overcome economic lag vs U.S., Asia
By Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's slow vaccine roll-out means its economic recovery could lag behind upturns in the United States and Asia unless it can get the programme back on track i...
Syndicated Content Feb 05, 2021
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