Pfizer estimated a revenue hit of $500 million connected to Covid-19 due to lower pharma demand in China and fewer wellness visits from patients in the US. A worker tests a liquid chemical inside of a laboratory at the Pfizer Inc. research and development facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US […]
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Roads were flooded near the coast, where forecasters said Zeta made landfall around Terrebone Bay near Cocodrie, an unincorporated fishing village at the end of a highway with few if any full-time residents and a marine laboratory where a building was inundated. Hurricane Zeta slammed into storm-weary Louisiana on Wednesday […]
Appeals for better coordination have become louder amid a resurgence of the epidemic in Europe after a relative lull in the summer months. EU leaders aim to make progress on common testing and vaccination strategies at a video conference on Thursday and step up coordination in fighting the fast-expanding Covid-19 […]
According to the Victoria state government the lockdown changes will allow 6,200 retail stores, 5,800 cafés and restaurants, 1,000 beauty salons and 800 pubs to reopen, impacting 180,000 jobs. Coffee business owner Darren Silverman pulled his van over and wept when he heard on the radio that Melbourne’s pandemic lockdown […]
TOKYO: Tumbling numbers of pregnancies and marriages in Japan during the coronavirus pandemic are likely to intensify a demographic crisis in the rapidly ageing nation. Japan has the most aged society in the world, with more than 35 per cent of its population expected to be 65 and over by […]
LONDON: The Covid-19 vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc produces a robust immune response in elderly people, the group at highest risk, the Financial Times said today, citing early results. The vaccine triggers protective antibodies and T-cells in older age groups, the FT said, citing […]
LONDON: British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said today that a vaccine to tackle Covid-19 was “not there yet” but the government was getting ready to roll out it, with a central expectation for the first half of 2021. “On my central expectation, I would expect the bulk of the roll […]
A man runs along a waterway after lockdown restrictions were imposed in response to the Covid-19 outbreak in Melbourne, Australia July 10, 2020. SYDNEY: The Australian state of Victoria, the epicentre of Covid-19 infections, said today it had gone 48 hours without detecting any new cases for the first […]
ZURICH: Coronavirus infections rose by 17,440 over the weekend, data from Swiss health authorities showed today, as the government considers tightening restrictions meant to slow the accelerating spread of Covid-19. The total confirmed cases in Switzerland and tiny neighbouring principality Liechtenstein rose to 121,093, and the death toll jumped by […]
MILAN: The United States, Russia, France and many other countries are setting records for coronavirus infections as a tidal wave of cases washes over parts of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing some countries to impose new curbs. The gloom weighed on global financial markets yesterday as surging infections clouded the economic […]