Author Archives: Syndicated Content
South African virus variant may resist antibody drugs; Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine seems to work vs UK variant
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Jan 20, 2021
35.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed, 16.5 million administered: U.S. CDC
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered 16,525,281 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 35,990,150 doses. ...
Jan 20, 2021
Police discover first cannabis farm in London financial district
LONDON (Reuters) - The first cannabis farm has been found in London's historic financial district, where office buildings have been emptied because of lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19, Brit...
Jan 20, 2021
Pearls, purple and American designers mark a new U.S. administration
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States' peaceful transition of power included a spotlight on fashion on Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were swor...
Jan 20, 2021
Dubai cancels non-essential surgery as COVID-19 cases surge
DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai's health authority on Wednesday ordered hospitals to cancel non-essential surgery for the next month after a surge in coronavirus cases in the Middle East's tourism and busines...
Jan 20, 2021
UK’s Johnson says record COVID-19 death figures are appalling
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday's record deaths from COVID-19 are "appalling" and the death toll is likely to keep rising in the next few weeks because of the sp...
Jan 20, 2021
Poet Amanda Gorman, 22, captures ‘bruised, but whole’ U.S. at Biden, Harris inauguration
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amanda Gorman, the youngest poet in U.S. history to mark the transition of presidential power, offered a hopeful vision for a deeply divided country on Wednesda...
Jan 20, 2021
Proud Boys member among the latest in wave of arrests over Capitol riots
By Sarah N. Lynch and Brad Heath WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI on Wednesday arrested a Florida-based member of the right-wing Proud Boys group for his alleged role in breaching the U.S. Capitol on Ja...
Jan 20, 2021
Spanish regional health chief resigns after jumping vaccine queue
MADRID (Reuters) - The top health official in the Spanish region of Murcia resigned on Wednesday after admitting he had received a coronavirus vaccine despite not belonging to any priority group desig...
Jan 20, 2021
Canadian annual inflation rate slows in December amid renewed COVID-19 restrictions
By Steve Scherer and Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's annual inflation rate slowed to 0.7% in December from 1.0% the previous month amid a new round of COVID-19 lockdowns and declining costs o...
Jan 20, 2021
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