Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
Russia registers first case of monkeypox
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia registered its first case of monkeypox, consumer safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said on Tuesday. The watchdog said in a statement that the disease was discovered in a young ...
Jul 12, 2022
Dozens of Chinese cities on heatwave alert as roofs melt, roads buckle
BEIJING (Reuters) - Dozens of Chinese cities baked in scorching temperatures as heatwaves melted the roofs of buildings and buckled roads and sweltering weather drove people to seek the cool in raid s...
Jul 12, 2022
China tells local goverments to drop COVID tests on some goods
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's health authority said on Tuesday that local governments no longer need to test some imported goods for the coronavirus, in a move aimed at reducing the cost of its strict C...
Jul 12, 2022
Pacific islands youth ‘cannot wait’ for climate change action – Vanuatu
SUVA, Fiji (Reuters) - The leader of Vanuatu, pushing to take climate change to the international court, said the slow pace of international negotiations over emissions reduction was "totally out of s...
Jul 12, 2022
Unnerved Shanghai residents brave stifling heat for mass COVID tests
By Brenda Goh and Jason Xue SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai residents queued up in sweltering heat for compulsory mass testing for COVID-19 on Tuesday, as persistent small outbreaks fuelled anxiety in a...
Jul 11, 2022
Shanghai reports 54 new local asymptomatic COVID cases, 5 symptomatic for July 11
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai reported 54 new domestically transmitted asymptomatic coronavirus cases for July 11, down from 63 a day earlier, while local symptomatic cases fell to five from six, the ...
Jul 11, 2022
China reports 424 new COVID cases for July 11 vs 429 a day earlier
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 424 new COVID-19 infections for July 11, of which 107 were symptomatic and 317 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday. That compared with...
Jul 11, 2022
Judge blocks Arizona law recognizing ‘personhood’ at fertilization
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday blocked a 2021 Arizona law recognizing the personhood of a fetus from the moment of fertilization, siding with abortion providers who said the measure was too vag...
Jul 11, 2022
U.S. CDC plans to improve international air contact tracing data collection
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will take steps to improve collection of international air passenger contact information to better ...
Jul 11, 2022
HHS says federal law preempts state abortion bans in emergency situations
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that healthcare providers who perform abortions in emergency situations are protected under federal law regardless of bans t...
Jul 11, 2022
