Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
German vaccine panel to recruit more experts to be more pandemic-minded
By Patricia Weiss and Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's vaccine advisory panel STIKO will be expanded to include more experts on pandemics, following controversy over the speed of the reco...
Jul 21, 2022
Extreme weather is Earth’s “chorus of anguish”, Pope says
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday called on world leaders to heed the Earth's "chorus of cries of anguish" stemming from climate change, extreme weather and loss of ...
Jul 21, 2022
Cape Town hospital uses robot at forefront of surgery in Africa
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A surgical team led by Dr Tim Forgan uses the da Vinci Xi robot to assist in removing a cancerous rectal tumour from a female patient at Tygerberg public hospital in Cape Town, S...
Jul 21, 2022
Tokyo daily coronavirus infection cases total a record 31,878
TOKYO (Reuters) - The number of new coronavirus infection cases hit a record of 31,878 on Thursday, Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike told a news conference, far outstripping the previous record set in Febr...
Jul 21, 2022
China to pay attention to coronavirus variants over the long term
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will pay close attention to variants of coronavirus in the long term, focusing on their transmission capability, pathogenicity and ability to evade immunity, a Chinese diseas...
Jul 21, 2022
Australia battles fresh Omicron outbreak as COVID deaths rise
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia reported one of its highest daily death tolls from the novel coronavirus on Thursday while hospital admissions hovered near record levels, as authorities struggle to get a...
Jul 20, 2022
China reports 943 new COVID cases for July 20 vs 1,012 day earlier
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Mainland China reported 943 new coronavirus cases for July 20, of which 200 were symptomatic and 743 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Thursday. That compa...
Jul 20, 2022
China’s Shenzhen reports 17 symptomatic, 5 asymptomatic cases for July 20
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China's southern technology hub of reported 22 new locally transmitted COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, up from 19 a day earlier, official data showed on Thursday. Of Wedn...
Jul 20, 2022
Shanghai reports 14 new local asymptomatic COVID cases, 3 symptomatic for July 20
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai reported 14 new domestically transmitted asymptomatic coronavirus cases for July 20, up from 10 a day earlier, while local symptomatic cases were three, down from five th...
Jul 20, 2022
New Zealand steps up border protections against foot and month disease
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand said late on Wednesday it had increased measures to prevent foot and month disease (FMD) from getting into the country after the disease was recently...
Jul 20, 2022
