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...HOLD: Bioventix (BVXP) Its products might sound obscure, but they’re prized by medical researchers, writes Jennifer Johnson....
...Braun employs about 1,100 people, the medical technology company is considering building dormitories on site as it plans to double investment and its workforce within the next five years....
...Then, starting in 2013, Gilead of the US delivered a series of breakthrough treatments for hepatitis B....
...He pointed to France where in earlier lockdowns, D&D’s Paris restaurant had been reimbursed by the government for loss of revenue, allowing it to continue paying its staff and rent....
...The week ends with the start of this year’s Tour de France....
...The word “civilisation” appears for the first time in France in the 1750s, introduced by the Marquis de Mirabeau....
...(While there’s little public information on the Bermudian entity B.UK Limited, interested DD readers can learn a few more details from the Paradise Papers leak.)...
...Property With rising prices pushing France and Switzerland off-limits for many ski-home buyers, demand is growing in Italy’s Courmayeur, where delightful cuisine and quiet pistes add to the appeal....
...And we just have to listen to what people who run medical establishments, who run the NHS, who have looked into this for years say we should do....
...Phillip Orlik is vice-president for sales and regional head for western Europe at Germany-headquartered medical devices business B. Braun....
...The system also evaluated the IHU or B.1.640.2 variant recently observed in France, finding it to have immune escape properties relatively similar to Omicron but with significantly lower fitness, making...
...And that was before the latest ‘Plan B’ restrictions were proposed, the effects of which aren’t yet clear....
...Martin McKee, professor of public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the better picture on the continent showed England “should immediately be activating” its winter “Plan B”...
...“As Plan B restrictions in England meant more people working from home, there was a notable fall for fuel sales,” she added....
...In contrast, Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, insisted this week that there was “nothing in the data saying we need to move to Plan B”....
...Have your say John B 52 comments on We are creeping towards a continuous working week I’d add in (from an employer’s point of view) worries about productivity....
...When the new approach was announced on July 12, the Doctolib medical booking site was jammed with calls and by the end of the following day, 1.7m had signed up....
...Also on Monday, France became the latest European country to introduce restrictions on non-essential travel to those arriving into the country from the UK....
...The threat of B.1.1.7 The resurgence of the pandemic in France — and many others in recent weeks — was fuelled by the arrival of the B.1.1.7 variant that originated in the UK in September....
...France is among the European countries struggling to control a lethal “third wave” dominated by the more infectious and sometimes dangerous B.1.1.7 variant of the virus that was first identified in England...
...It is replacing older variants in many other countries and accounts for 40 per cent of cases in the US and France....
...It now accounts for about 40 per cent of cases in the US and France. Some have questioned whether enough was done to contain B.1.1.7 after it was identified in September....
...France already requires healthcare workers to be immunised against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and hepatitis B....
...European governments are struggling to contain a surge in new infections driven by the spread of the more transmissible and deadly B.1.1.7 strain, with the public increasingly fed up with coronavirus restrictions...
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