Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters The U.S. State Department has ...
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First Major U.S. City To Reimpose Mask Mandate Amid Latest Covid Surge
Topline Philadelphia will reimpose its indoor mask mandate on April 18, the city’s health commissioner announced Monday, the first major city to put its mandate back in effect in response to rising Co...
Covid Smell Loss Linked To Damage In Brain, Study Finds
Topline Covid-19 infections are tied to damage in the part of the brain associated with smell, according to a study published Monday by JAMA Neurology, offering a possible explanation for the long-ter...
WHO says it closely watching as China grapples with its worst Covid surge yet
Shanghai, home to the world’s largest container shipping port, began a two-part lockdown on March 28 and has yet to announce when restrictions will lift. Yang Jianzheng | Visual China Group | Ge...
China Stocks Caught in Fresh Rout on Covid, Regulation Worries
(Bloomberg) — Chinese stocks tumbled on Monday as mounting concern over a Covid outbreak at home and rising global interest rates added to persistent regulatory headwinds. Most Read from Bloombe...
Shanghai Eases Restrictions, Non-Essential Travel Banned In Guangzhou As China’s Covid Surge Intensifies
Topline The Chinese port city of Guangzhou banned non-essential travel while Shanghai, the country’s financial hub, is easing lockdown but continues to report a large number of new Covid-19 cases as C...
China’s Nio halts EV production as COVID lockdowns disrupt its supply chain
Nio Inc., the China-based electric-vehicle maker, over the weekend warned of delivery delays after suspending production due to COVID-19 restrictions that have disrupted its supply chain. “There will ...
USD/CNY darts upwards as Shanghai Covid cases rise
The USD/CNY rose while Chinese stocks declined sharply after the number of Covid-19 cases in Shanghai worsened. The Chinese yuan is trading at 6.37 against the US dollar while CSI and Hang Seng declin...
‘Sonic 2’ Races To Record $71 Million Debut
Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in Sonic The Hedgehog 2 from Paramount Pictures and Sega. © 2021 Paramount Pictures and Sega of America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Well, with two of the year’s biggest theatrical ...
U.S. Tells Citizens “Do Not Travel” To Shanghai, Hong Kong Due To Covid Restrictions
Residents have swab samples collected in a round of Covid-19 testing during a lockdown in Shanghai … [+] on April 7. As much of the world moves on from the pandemic, desperate scenes seeping out...
‘Sonic The Hedgehog 2’ Nabs Boffo $27 Million Friday But ‘Ambulance’ Crashes
Knuckles (Idris Elba) and Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in Sonic The Hedgehog 2 from Paramount Pictures and Sega. © 2021 Paramount Pictures and Sega of America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Paramount and Sega’s S...
Alibaba Stock Hit by China Covid Outbreak. 4 Reasons to Hope for a Bounce.
Text size Alibaba stock faces headwinds from Covid-19 outbreaks in China. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images A renewed outbreak of Covid-19 in China has hurt the outlook for the e-commerce giant Alibaba ...
‘The Batman’ Tops ‘F9’ To Become Fourth-Biggest Covid Era Blockbuster
Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. The Batman ended its fifth week in theaters with $352.5 million in domestic earnings. We’re probably looking at a $6.6 million sixth-weekend g...
As Stars Catch Covid, Broadway Braces For A Chaotic Month
Daniel Craig, currently playing the title role in MACBETH on Broadway. (Photo by Max … [+] Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images) Getty Images Not even James Bond can dodge Covid. Daniel Craig is one of sev...
Pfizer Stock: With Covid Booster Future Uncertain, Pfizer Digs Into A New Virus
Pfizer (PFE) will buy privately held RSV treatment-maker ReViral for up to $525 million, the company said early Thursday. Pfizer stock rose. X The deal bolsters Pfizer’s pipeline targeting respi...
Nancy Pelosi Tests Positive For Covid
Topline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has tested positive for Covid-19, a spokesman tweeted Thursday, making her the latest in a string of prominent public officials that have contracted the v...
Common Antidepressant Likely Cuts Risk Of Covid Hospitalization, Study Finds
Topline Fluvoxamine, a cheap and widely available pill used around the world to treat mental illness, is very likely to reduce the risk of being hospitalized with Covid-19, according to new peer revie...
UK has detected a new Covid variant. Here’s what we know so far about omicron XE
According to the Office for National Statistics, 4.9 million people in Britain, or 1 in 13, were infected with Covid-19 as of March 26 — a record high since its survey began in April 2020. Bloomberg |...
China Covid Lockdowns Likely To Be Followed By Policy Easing In 2nd Half — Matthew Asia’s Andy Rothman
Empty roads during a phased lockdown due to Covid-19 in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. … [+] Shanghai reported more than 13,000 daily Covid cases for the first time, as a sweeping l...
Here’s What We Know About Omicron XE — The New Covid Variant Found In The U.K.
Topline A new Covid-19 variant that combines two different omicron strains has been identified in the United Kingdom, and it could be the fastest-spreading Covid variant yet, according to early data f...
Biden administration to launch long Covid research plan
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before receiving a second COVID-19 booster vaccination in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditor...
Hard-Hit Shanghai Extends Covid Lockdown As Cases Surge
Topline Shanghai reported more than 13,000 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday as the city’s outbreak surges despite an ongoing lockdown, prompting authorities in the Chinese financial hub to indefinitely e...
The African Union Endorses Plan To Strengthen Healthcare Workforce In Wake Of Covid Pandemic
Doreen Ebong, a nurse-midwife, attends to a mother at the Lira Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda. Brian Kalyesubula/Seed Global Health Global public health experts Agnes Binagwaho, Githinji Gitahi,...
Senators reach $10 billion Covid funding deal for therapeutics, vaccines and testing
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the federal response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and new emerging v...
No Increased Risk Of Birth Defects After Covid Vaccination During Pregnancy, Study Finds
Topline There is no increased risk of birth defects detectable by ultrasound for babies born to mothers vaccinated against Covid-19 while pregnant, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatric...
FDA says Covid vaccines may need to be updated to ensure high level of effectiveness against virus
A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Va...
We Cannot ‘Boost Our Way Out’ Of The Covid Pandemic, Experts Warn
Topline U.S. officials greenlit second booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccines last week in an effort to bolster waning immunity ahead of a potential surge of cases driven by t...
Heart Complications More Likely From Covid Than From Vaccines, Study Finds
Topline Covid vaccines that use mRNA technology carry a slight risk of heart complications for some individuals, but far less than the risk of heart complications that comes with having a Covid infect...
Myocarditis risk higher after Covid infection than vaccination, CDC finds
A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images People infected with Covid-19 face a higher risk of...
CDC will end Title 42 used to expel migrants during Covid
Pedestrians wait to cross into the U.S. at the San Ysidro Port of Entry border crossing bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday, March 20, 2022. Cesar Rodriguez | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Centers for...
AmCham survey on China’s latest Covid lockdowns, American businesses
The metropolis of Shanghai, where many foreign businesses are located, entered a two-part lockdown this week as municipal authorities sought to control an outbreak in China’s worst Covid wave in...