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...Two weeks after the headquarters announcement, he gave another $110mn to 40 organisations including universities, museums and hospitals, leaving local civic leaders to guess whether the gifts would be his...
...Hacking Inc....
...Wu, a 54-year-old retiree in China’s south-western Sichuan province, struggled to get hold of antiviral medication when her 92-year-old mother came down with Covid-19 this month....
...This article has been updated to clarify that Higg Inc has rebranded as Worldly, not the Higg Index as incorrectly stated in a previous version. ...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 3 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Covid-19 vaccines that need to be deep frozen during transport can be delivered to developing nations in sub-Saharan Africa, South America and South Asia, according to logistics group DHL....
...in Brazil in 1934, to a wealthy Czech-British railway engineer and his Jewish Ukrainian-Uruguayan wife, the first decades of her life were not all 19th-century rosewood tables and weekend parties in the south...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 24. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Despite signs that Omicron evades some immunity and leads to more reinfections, South African scientists and medics have drawn hope from relatively low rates of severe cases in hospitals....
...The risk of a Covid-19-positive adult being admitted to hospital since November 15 is 29 per cent lower than during South Africa’s first wave, researchers discovered....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 23. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...On Thursday, the WHO warned against making premature conclusions on virulence, saying more data were needed and that its higher transmissibility could still cripple hospitals and economies....
...Marcos Jr has used the pandemic to lament the lack of new specialised hospitals....
...Japan, Australia and South Korea are among the countries that also have deals....
...Merck, which this week asked US regulators to authorise use of the drug called molnupiravir, told the Financial Times it had secured deals with Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and South Korea to supply...
...The negotiations with South Africa were particularly tense....
...Zhengzhou sits in the low-lying and flood-prone north China plain, on the south banks of the Yellow river....
...NB: There is a gradient, north to south, within Europe. Northern Europe tends to be more permissive of work from home, southern Europe less so....
...Data from English hospitals showed that of 2,889 genetically confirmed cases of B.1.617.2, 104 had led to an emergency department visit, of which 31 had an overnight stay in hospital, and six died....
...When we heard about NHS nurses and doctors being under so much pressure then unable to find food in supermarkets, we delivered Little Moons to hospitals around London for several months....
...Babylon also has contracts with South Korea’s Samsung and China’s Tencent, and raised money from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund as part of a $550m fundraise in August 2019....
...Maternal care and family planning were the first services to be scaled back or axed when hospitals were forced to redirect resources to the Covid response....
...J&J’s phase 3 trial data for its vaccine will be released by early next week, and it may show whether the jab works just as well against the virus variant that emerged in South Africa, because J&J has trial...
...South Africa also suspended use of the J&J vaccine on Tuesday in response to the US pause....
...“We do see that not a single South African after 28 days post-vaccination ended up needing to go to the hospital,” he said....
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