Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Landslide at Vale mine near 2019 disaster site kills one in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A landslide at a mine owned by Brazil's Vale SA near the site of the 2019 Brumadinho dam disaster buried and killed a worker on Friday, the company told Reuters in a stateme...
Dec 18, 2020
Parts of Australia’s Sydney put into strict COVID-19 lockdown
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Around a quarter of a million people in Sydney's northern beaches were ordered on Saturday to stay at home until Wednesday midnight after a coronavirus cluster grew by 13 new cas...
Dec 18, 2020
China reports 17 new COVID-19 cases vs 12 a day earlier
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Mainland China recorded 17 new COVID-19 cases on Dec. 18, up from 12 a day earlier, the country's health authority said on Saturday. The National Health Commission said in its dai...
Dec 18, 2020
Brazil governors urge extension of COVID-19 emergency measures
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Governors from 17 Brazilian states urged President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday to extend a "state of public calamity" due to the COVID-19 pandemic now set to expire at the end ...
Dec 18, 2020
Explainer: How the Moderna vaccine stacks up against Pfizer/BioNTech’s
By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators authorized Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday, a week after granting the first U.S. authorization to Pfizer Inc and BioNTe...
Dec 18, 2020
Fairbanks clinician is third Alaskan with adverse reaction to COVID-19 vaccine
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A Fairbanks clinician suffered anaphylactic symptoms after being given the Pfizer Inc coronavirus vaccine, a hospital said on Friday, becoming the third A...
Dec 18, 2020
U.S. FDA authorizes Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
(Reuters) - Moderna Inc's coronavirus vaccine on Friday became the second to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, welcome news to a nation with a stagg...
Dec 18, 2020
South Korea reports 1,053 new coronavirus cases: KDCA
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea reported 1,053 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The daily numbers were above 1,000 for the fourth straight ...
Dec 18, 2020
Colombia reaches deals with Pfizer, AstraZeneca for COVID-19 vaccines
By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia has inked deals with pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and AstraZeneca to provide 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, President Ivan Duque said on Fri...
Dec 18, 2020
House passes Peters’ bipartisan legislation to protect Apollo Landing Sites
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO AM/FM) — Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) to permanently protect the Apollo landing sites ...
Dec 18, 2020
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