Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech said construction of an mRNA vaccine factory to serve Africa would start on June 23 in Rwanda. The groundbreaking ceremony in the capital city of ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's vaccine advisory committee recommends that people over 18 who have been exposed to or are at increased risk of monkeypox infection receive Bavarian Nordic's Imvanex vaccin...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese commercial hub of Shanghai will carry out mass testing for COVID-19 in seven districts over the weekend, a local health official said on Thursday. The districts to be t...

By Jarrett Renshaw and Ahmed Aboulenein (Reuters) - Pre-orders of vaccines for children under age 5 have been slow, but Biden administration senior officials say they are not alarmed and expect the pa...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British government commissioned review into tobacco controls on Thursday recommended the legal age of sale for tobacco products in England be raised by one year every year until e...

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Shionogi & Co Ltd said its COVID-19 projects in Vietnam are still progressing, after fraud scandals enveloped its partner there and the health ministry. Shiono...

BENAHAVIS, Spain (Reuters) - A wildfire in mountains in southern Spain has forced the evacuation of the centre of the town of Benahavis, a district that is home to 7,000 people, and three firefighters...

(Reuters) - Some parts of Shanghai and Beijing brought back a few COVID-19-related restrictions and delayed reopenings, while India saw its biggest jump in daily cases more than three months. DEATHS A...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India reported 7,240 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday, its highest number of daily cases since March 2. India's financial capita...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 240 new coronavirus cases on June 8, of which 70 were symptomatic and 170 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Thursday. That compares with 216...