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Top StoriesU.S. Cdc Lifts Covid ‘Do Not Travel’ Recommendations on About 90 Countries
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Top StoriesGreece Lifts Covid Restrictions for Summer Tourism Season
Vaccines Have Halved Italy’s COVID-19 Death Toll, Study Shows
Date: April 13, 2022
MILAN (Reuters) – Vaccines against COVID-19 have roughly halved the death toll from the disease in Italy, preventing some 150,000 fatalities and 8 million cases last year, the National Health Institute (ISS) estimated on Wednesday. The ISS study, which ran from the start of 2021 until the end of January this year, concluded the inoculation...
Britain Widens Access to Pfizer’s Covid Antiviral Drug Through Trial
Date: April 12, 2022
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will expand access to Pfizer’s oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment to thousands more people by adding it to a trial to assess how best to use the drug in its highly vaccinated population, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Paxlovid, a combination of Pfizer’s new pill with an older...
Queen Elizabeth Says Covid Left “one Very Tired and Exhausted”
Date: April 11, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth said COVID-19 had left “one very tired and exhausted” as she talked to health workers and a former patient about her own experience of “this horrible pandemic”. Britain’s 95-year-old monarch tested positive for COVID in February and was described as having had mild, cold-like symptoms. She later returned to...
‘covid Is Not a Cold’ – Germany U-Turns on Ending Mandatory Isolation
Date: April 6, 2022
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany will not end mandatory isolation for most people who catch COVID-19, the health minister said on Wednesday, reversing course after concerns were raised that lifting quarantine restrictions would suggest the pandemic was over. “Coronavirus is not a cold. That is why there must continue to be isolation after an infection,” Health Minister...
UK to Ban Celebrities Popular With under-18s From Gambling Ads
Date: April 5, 2022
By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – Gambling advertisements in Britain featuring celebrities, sports people and social media influencers popular with the under-18s will be banned under a new ruling designed to protect children in one of the world’s largest betting markets. The tougher rules form part of the Advertising Standards Authority’s commitment to “safeguarding young...
China Sends Military, Doctors to Shanghai to Test 26 Million Residents for Covid
Date: April 4, 2022
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China has sent the military and thousands of healthcare workers into Shanghai to help carry out COVID-19 tests for all of its 26 million residents as cases continued to rise on Monday, in one of the country’s biggest-ever public health responses. Some residents woke up before dawn for white-suited healthcare workers to swab...