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Covid-19

Biden’s plan for ending the emergency declaration for COVID-19

President Joe Biden announced on Jan. 30, 2023, that he intends to end both the national emergency and the public health emergency declarations related to COVID-19 on May 11, 2023. Biden’s announcement came on the same day that the World Health Organization said it still considers the COVID-19 pandemic to be a public health emergency […]

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Canada

Quebec-based COVID-19 vaccine maker Medicago to shut down | CBC

Mitsubishi Chemical Group is shutting down Medicago Inc., a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer with headquarters in Quebec City. A year ago, Medicago’s plant-based COVID-19 vaccine, Covifenz, was approved by Health Canada, and it was touted as a homegrown shot against SARS-CoV-2. Then in March, the World Health Organization decided not to accept Medicago’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, citing the […]

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Finance

WHO calls on China to release more data on Covid-19 outbreak

The World Health Organization has called on China to share more information on its surge in Covid-19 cases, after Beijing over the weekend reported almost 60,000 deaths since abandoning strict pandemic restrictions last month. The WHO said in a statement that its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had spoken with Ma Xiaowei, head of China’s National […]

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Covid-19

Long COVID stemmed from mild cases of COVID-19 in most people,

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people’s health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19 – or long COVID – recently published in the Journal of the American […]

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Finance

EU offers free Covid-19 vaccines to China to help curb outbreak

The EU has offered free Covid-19 vaccines to China to help Beijing contain a mass outbreak of the illness following its decision to end strict nationwide pandemic-related restrictions. The offer was made in recent days ahead of a meeting of EU health ministry officials on Tuesday, said European Commission officials, speaking under the condition of […]

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Technology

Apple production in China begins to catch up despite covid-19

Covid-19 issues in China are still hampering manufacturing of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, but production is beginning to catch up to demand for the more-expensive Pro models, according to analysts and people involved in the supply chain. Source link

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Canada

She worked on the front lines during COVID-19. Now she could be

One year after the federal government vowed to do more to give status to undocumented workers, Canada is pressing forward with deporting a personal support worker, separating her from her child and sending her back to the country from which she says she ran for her life. Fatumah Najjuma, a 29-year-old, fled Uganda while pregnant […]

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Entertainment

RiverStone: Influenza, COVID-19 taking toll on Yellowstone County

(RiverStone Health news release) Billings, MT – Influenza continues to hit Yellowstone County hard and early. So far this season, at least 1,111 flu cases have been confirmed in county residents. Fifty-eight people have been hospitalized and two have died. The most recently reported death occurred on Dec. 14. A woman in her 80s died […]

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Entertainment

Influenza, COVID-19 taking toll on Yellowstone County residents

News release from RiverStone Health Billings, MT – Influenza continues to hit Yellowstone County hard and early. So far this season, at least 1,111 flu cases have been confirmed in county residents. Fifty-eight people have been hospitalized and two have died. The most recently reported death occurred on Dec. 14. A woman in her 80s […]

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Science

COVID-19 pandemic helped Quebec top its emissions target:

The Quebec government is crediting the COVID-19 pandemic for helping the province surpass its climate change targets. Quebec cut emissions from greenhouse gases — which trap heat and warm the planet — by almost 27 per cent compared to 1990 levels between 2013-2020. The province’s goal was to cut emissions by 20 per cent over […]