Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)
Monkeypox can be contained if we act now, WHO says
GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization senior official said on Friday that the priority needs to be containing monkeypox in non-endemic countries, saying that this can be achieved through quic...
May 27, 2022
Swiss to destroy more than 620,000 expired Moderna COVID doses
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland will destroy more than 620,000 expired doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, health officials said on Friday, as demand for the shots drops dramatically. "It was consciou...
May 27, 2022
EU agrees common purchase of vaccine, antiviral against monkeypox, paper
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The European Union has decided on common purchasing of a vaccine and antiviral to fight the outbreak of monkeypox, a virus endemic in Africa and usually rare in other places, Swe...
May 27, 2022
Chinese province neighbouring North Korea reports border area COVID cases
BEIJING (Reuters) - Border areas in China's northeastern province of Jilin, which shares a long frontier with coronavirus-hit North Korea, has reported domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections of ...
May 27, 2022
Factbox-Monkeypox cases around the world
(Reuters) - Around 20 countries where monkeypox is not endemic have reported outbreaks of the viral disease, with more than 200 confirmed or suspected infections mostly in Europe. The outbreaks are ra...
May 27, 2022
N.Korea stockpiled Chinese masks, vaccines before reporting COVID-19 outbreak
By Stella Qiu, Ellen Zhang and Josh Smith BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - In the months before it acknowledged its first official COVID-19 outbreak, North Korea suddenly imported millions of face masks, 1,0...
May 27, 2022
Taiwan’s COVID-19 cases reach plateau – government
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan has reached a plateau, with cases at a high but stable level, the government said on Friday, as it maintained a policy of gradually easing restrictio...
May 27, 2022
G7 reaches agreements on phasing out coal: RTL/ntv quotes German minister
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Group of Seven countries has reached concrete agreements on phasing out coal power generation and expanding renewable energy production, German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke...
May 27, 2022
First case of monkeypox confirmed in Finland
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland has confirmed its first case of monkeypox, the Helsinki hospital district said on Friday. A orthopoxvirus infection was detected in the Helsinki region on Wednesday and ha...
May 27, 2022
World Bank approves $500 million for Turkey for COVID-19 vaccines
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Thursday that its board had approved $500 million in additional financing to support Turkey in its efforts to fight against COVID-19. The funds, which will ...
May 27, 2022
