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...Less than two months after forecasting “a long period of tranquility” for Europe in the pandemic, the World Health Organization’s regional chief warned this week that much of the continent was in the grip...
...The developers of Sputnik V, Russia’s main vaccine, have admitted it may, like others, be less effective against the Delta strain and rowed back on claims made in April that it could provide patients with...
...“The Delta variant is not going to be a systemic risk but a regional risk.” Additional reporting by Lauren Fedor in Washington...
...“These are the darkest days of this pandemic,” Catherine O’Neal, chief medical officer of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told reporters this week....
...As people in south-east Asia raise their heads from the Covid trenches, the regional landscape looks pretty unsettling....
...The decision has set the Minneapolis Fed apart from the other regional branches of the US central bank, some of which have yet to institute such a policy....
...Ngoc Nguyen, a coder from the Mekong Delta, can trace her life as a start-up CEO back to a little black dot on an ultrasound that appeared when she was pregnant in 2016....
...Russia’s healthcare watchdog has said that it has not detected any cases of blood clots arising from the use of the country’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...Regional doctors have also voiced anger at a string of proclamations by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which financed Sputnik V and is managing its export sales, about pledges to supply countries...
...The decision means the Games may feel less sterile, but flies in the face of the country’s official medical advice....
...The Kremlin hopes it can stem the tide after president Vladimir Putin ordered vaccination with Russia’s own Sputnik V to begin before the conclusion of phase 3 trials....
...A road map on relevant regional co-operation was adopted in 2016....
...(FT) Delta plummets Delta suffered a first-quarter pre-tax loss of $607m as it burnt through cash at a rate of $100m a day at the end of March....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...That was the day Donald Trump visited the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta....
...Ruud Dobber is regional vice president, Europe Middle East and Africa at AstraZeneca Related reading Economy: Little scope to spend way out of trouble FT Russia: healthy start for MD Medical beyondbrics...
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