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Philip Morris gets over a fifth of Vectura shares in takeover tender offer

By Siddharth Cavale (Reuters) -Cigarette maker Philip Morris International (PMI) said on Wednesday s...

19th August, 2021

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British study shows COVID-19 vaccine efficacy wanes under Delta

By Ludwig Burger (Reuters) – A British public health study has found that protection from eith...

19th August, 2021

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Third Pfizer dose 86% effective in over 60s, Israeli HMO says

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – A third dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine was found to be...

18th August, 2021

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U.S. to begin offering COVID-19 vaccine booster shots in September

By Carl O’Donnell and Ahmed Aboulenein (Reuters) -The U.S. government said on Wednesday it pla...

18th August, 2021

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Japan extends COVID-19 emergency lockdown as cases surge

(Corrects to say state of emergency is fourth, not fifth, of the pandemic in paragraph 2.) By Daniel...

18th August, 2021

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UK donates nearly 300,000 doses of COVID vaccine to Egypt

CAIRO (Reuters) – Britain donated 299,700 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine...

18th August, 2021

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As Delta spreads, some travelers double up on COVID-19 vaccine in U.S

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Alison Toni felt lucky to get Sinovac’s COVID-19 vac...

17th August, 2021

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Emergency vaccine summit needed to help Africa, says UK’s ex-PM Brown

LONDON (Reuters) – U.S., British and Italian leaders must hold an emergency summit before the...

16th August, 2021

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Haiti hospitals overwhelmed by quake victims as death toll hits 1,297

By Laura Gottesdiener PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Haiti’s hospitals were swamped on Sunday by th...

16th August, 2021

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U.S. FDA authorizes COVID-19 vaccine boosters for the immunocompromised

By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a...

13th August, 2021

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WHO seeks to take political heat out of virus origins debate

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Friday it was setting u...

13th August, 2021

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China signals crackdown on privacy, data, anti-trust to go on

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -China will draft new laws on national security, technology innova...

13th August, 2021