Category Archives: Syndicated
FDA grants accelerated approval for Immunomedics’ breast cancer therapy
(Reuters) - Immunomedics Inc won an accelerated approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Trodelvy, its therapy for a form of invasive breast cancer that has worsened despite two prior r...
Apr 22, 2020
EBRD lends 145 million euros to help small Moroccan businesses
RABAT (Reuters) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Wednesday it would lend Morocco's Bank of Africa 145 million euros ($156.92 million) to help finance small busines...
Apr 22, 2020
Uzbekistan builds 10,000-bed infectious disease hospital
TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbekistan is preparing to open the first part of a 10,000-bed infectious diseases hospital outside the capital Tashkent as it tries to curb the spread of the coronavirus, a proje...
Apr 22, 2020
Estonia opens healthcare, schools to follow in easing of lockdown
TALLINN (Reuters) - Estonia has started to gradually open healthcare services and will open some schools on May 15 as it starts to emerge from a coronavirus lockdown, a government strategy document pu...
Apr 22, 2020
In Britain’s COVID-19 wards, doctors say they do not have enough gowns
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - It was when the government changed its guidance last week to say medical workers treating coronavirus patients could use plastic aprons instead of protective gowns...
Apr 22, 2020
New York to launch tri-state virus tracing program with Bloomberg’s help
(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday that he would work with Connecticut and New Jersey to launch a joint tri-state program to trace the contacts of people with the novel coron...
Apr 22, 2020
NFL: Punters from Down Under line up for draft chance
By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia may be better known for flooding the world's markets with minerals, wool and koala bear soft toys, but the nation's booming exports of American football p...
Apr 22, 2020
Attacks across Afghanistan kill dozens of security force members, civilians
LOGAR/KABUL (Reuters) - Clashes between Afghan forces and Taliban militants killed dozens nationwide in the past 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday, even as the United States tries to broker peace ...
Apr 22, 2020
Italy’s daily coronavirus death toll falls, but new cases climb
ROME (Reuters) - Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 437 on Wednesday, against 534 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new infections increased...
Apr 22, 2020
Colombia tax collection will fall 10%, government reviewing GDP contraction estimate
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's tax collection will fall by 10% this year, equivalent to 15.8 trillion pesos ($3.9 billion), because of the economic impact of the novel coronavirus, said Finance Ministe...
Apr 22, 2020
