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...The former French mayor, Damien Careme, a Greens party member, has argued that his Grande-Synthe suburb of Dunkirk is now at far greater risk of severe flooding due to the effects of climate change....
...Communist party officials point to the country’s large elderly population, its uneven regional development and its insufficient medical resources....
...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...
...However, it remains to be seen how long a booster can protect for, when “antibody levels wax and wane”, said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security....
...The bans do not apply to US citizens or any immediate family they are travelling with, nor to green-card holders or people who secure special exemptions, mostly for work-related reasons....
...Stepping up their inoculation rate will help to slow America’s galloping spread of Delta infections. The FDA’s green light removes one lingering parental argument against jabbing eligible kids....
...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...
...Center....
...“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....
...In this deeply moving account, FT journalist Miranda Green recounts her struggle with cancer care....
...As people in south-east Asia raise their heads from the Covid trenches, the regional landscape looks pretty unsettling....
...Still, delaying child vaccination is not risk-free, particularly with the super-transmissible Delta variant....
...They are widely expected to give the green light to a rollout, not least because they have been asked to take into account “broader educational and societal impacts” than the JCVI’s remit permits....
...Delta variant....
...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....
...Mozambique may look for coastal support from regional navies....
...The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will require the test result from January 26....
...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....
...The US Centers for Disease Control, one of the most prominent public health authorities globally, says coronavirus vaccines are not interchangeable....
...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....
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