Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Sanofi teams up with U.S. firm Luminostics on developing COVID-19 testing app
PARIS (Reuters) - French healthcare company Sanofi and U.S. start-up technology company Luminostics said they were joining up to work on developing a smartphone-based self-testing solution to see if s...
Apr 16, 2020
U.S. opposes general allocation of Special Drawing Rights to IMF members
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States opposes creation of liquidity through issuance of the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as part of the response to the coronavirus pa...
Apr 16, 2020
Austria plans to test all retirement home residents for coronavirus
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria, one of the more successful countries in Europe at flattening the curve of coronavirus infections, plans to test every retirement home resident as it expands efforts to meas...
Apr 16, 2020
Santander launches money transfer app in UK to fend off competition from fintechs
By Jess Aguado MADRID (Reuters) - Santander on Thursday launched a money service app in the United Kingdom that will initially be free of fees for transfers of up to 3,000 pounds ($3,740) due to the c...
Apr 16, 2020
Sheboygan Author Gets Wide Distribution During Lockdown
by Kevin Zimmermann SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) - The worst of times can be turned into opportunity for good, and Sheboygan Author Todd Zimmermann is wasting no time making that good turn. ...
Apr 16, 2020
Germany’s Oktoberfest unlikely to take place this year
BERLIN (Reuters) - The annual Oktoberfest, the world's largest beer festival, is unlikely to take place this year due to the coronavirus crisis, the premier of the southern German state of Bavaria sai...
Apr 16, 2020
Biogen joins consortium for building COVID-19 ‘biobank’
(Reuters) - Biogen Inc said on Thursday it had joined a consortium to build a collection of biological and medical data, where its employees who had tested and recovered from the coronavirus would be ...
Apr 16, 2020
Yemen’s war-scarred hospitals gear up to combat coronavirus threat
TAIZ/SANAA (Reuters) - In a hospital in the Yemeni city of Taiz, medics scarred by five years of war are marshalling scant resources to face a new enemy. The coronavirus epidemic has yet to make clear...
Apr 16, 2020
Abbott posts 16% fall in profit, suspends 2020 forecast on coronavirus concerns
(Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc posted a 16% drop in quarterly profit on Thursday partly due to a tax expense and suspended its full-year forecast citing the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus ...
Apr 16, 2020
Tokyo Games must focus on ‘must haves’ to cut costs: Coates
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympics organisers must reduce costs related to the postponed Tokyo Games by focusing on the "must-haves", IOC Coordination Commission chief John Coates said followi...
Apr 16, 2020
