Healthcare (TRBC level 1)
EU drug regulator investigating 62 reports of rare clotting worldwide: chief
LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s drug regulator is investigating 62 cases worldwide of a rare blood clotting condition which has prompted some countries to limit the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, its chief Emer Cooke said in a briefing on Wednesday. That includes 44 cases in the European Economic Area out of a total of 9.2 …
Italy’s health minister expects COVID cases to start falling in late spring
ROME (Reuters) – Italy is seeing a steady rise in coronavirus infections but a national vaccination campaign and tougher restrictions mean numbers should start improving in late spring, the health minister said. FILE PHOTO: Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza speaks to reporters after European health ministers from neighbouring countries to Italy held a meeting to …
Bolivian doctors demand lockdown as COVID surge threatens health service ‘collapse’
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian doctors are demanding a nationwide lockdown and threatening to stop taking in new patients as a surge in COVID-19 cases, which they say is killing an average of one medic per day, strains hospitals to breaking point. New daily coronavirus infections in the Andean country, which received its first batch …
WHO health regulations need tweaks but not major change – panel
FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, June 25, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse GENEVA (Reuters) – The International Health Regulations remain a cornerstone of public health security and need improving in some areas, but not major changes, the chair of a World Health Organization (WHO) panel …
COVID-19 clusters break out in Japan’s coldest city as winter closes in
By Rocky Swift, Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) – The emergence of Japan’s coldest city as a COVID-19 hotspot has raised fears among health experts that it could be a sign of what the rest of the nation may face as winter sets in and more people stay indoors, raising airborne transmission risks. FILE PHOTO: Passersby …
