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China’s Big Cities, From Dalian to Shenzhen, Ramp up Covid Curbs
Date: August 30, 2022
BEIJING/SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) -Several of China’s biggest cities imposed tougher COVID-19 curbs on Tuesday, further crimping the activities of tens of millions, and sparking fresh concerns for the health of a barely growing economy. Metropolises from the southern tech hub of Shenzhen to southwestern Chengdu and the northeastern port of Dalian ordered measures such as...
British Scientists Behind Key Covid Trial Launch Study to Test Monkeypox Treatment
Date: August 24, 2022
By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) – The British scientists behind one of the major therapeutic COVID-19 trials have turned their focus to treatments for monkeypox, a viral disease that has been labeled a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). The team from Oxford University behind the so-called RECOVERY trial – which honed...
Bavarian Nordic Signs up U.S. Firm for Packaging Monkeypox Vaccine
Date: August 19, 2022
(Reuters) – Danish biotech firm Bavarian Nordic said on Thursday it has signed up a U.S.-based manufacturer to package its Jynneos monkeypox vaccine and the production is expected to begin later this year. The company aims to finish the technology transfer in three months to Michigan-based Grand River Aseptic. More than 13,500 cases of the...
WHO Vows Nothing ‘ridiculous’ as Public Submits Ideas to Rename Monkeypox
Date: August 16, 2022
By Emma Farge and Jennifer Rigby GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) – Poxy McPoxface, TRUMP-22 or Mpox: these some of the ideas sent in by the public to the World Health Organization as it seeks a new name for monkeypox. Often disease names are chosen behind closed doors by a technical committee, but the WHO has this time...
UK to Offer Covid Booster to All Adults From September
Date: August 15, 2022
By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) -All adults in the United Kingdom will be offered a COVID-19 booster starting from September, health officials said, hours after the country became the first in the world to approve an Omicron-adapted shot. The preference is to deploy what is known as a bivalent vaccine that targets both the original...
UK First to Approve Omicron Covid Shot With Moderna Nod
Date: August 15, 2022
By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) -Britain, the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine in late 2020, has now also given the first green light to a variant-adapted shot that targets both the original and Omicron version of the virus. The UK medicines regulator (MHRA) gave the so-called bivalent vaccine made by U.S. drug company...