By Ryan Woo, Roxanne Liu and David Stanway BEIJING – China’s public health governance is expected to come under acute pressure in coming weeks as the biggest wave of COVID-19 …
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By Ludwig Burger and Philip Blenkinsop -The World Trade Organization (WTO) praised a provisional deal to waive patent rights for COVID-19 vaccines after more than a year of deadlock, though …
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SHANGHAI -Electric vehicle giant Tesla is suspending production at its Shanghai factory for two days, according to a notice sent internally and to suppliers, as China tightens COVID restrictions to …
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RALEIGH – A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining over $1.7 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small …
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By Yimou Lee and Sophie Yu TAIPEI/BEIJING -China is allowing Apple Inc supplier Foxconn’s Shenzhen operations and construction sites in Shanghai to resume work on condition that their employees live …
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By Joe Brock SINGAPORE – The queues of container ships outside major Chinese ports are lengthening by the day as COVID-19 outbreaks in manufacturing export hubs threaten to unleash a …
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By Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON -The U.S. government will run out of supplies of COVID-19 treatments known as monoclonal antibodies as soon as late May and will have …
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-Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE on Tuesday filed an application with U.S. regulators seeking emergency use authorization for a second booster shot of their COVID-19 vaccine for …
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, tested positive on Tuesday for COVID-19, the White House said in a statement. Harris tested negative for the virus, but …
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BOSTON – A New York Man pleaded guilty today to charges arising from a scheme to fraudulently obtain business loans and unemployment pandemic relief funds made available under the Coronavirus …
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– The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron was estimated to be 23.1% of the coronavirus variants circulating in the United States as of March 12, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control …
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By Sruthi Shankar and Shreyashi Sanyal -European stocks fell on Tuesday, with commodity-linked sectors leading the losses, as concerns about surging coronavirus cases in China added to nerves ahead of …
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TRENTON, NJ – The COVID-19 pandemic is over, according to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. Instead, the governor says New Jersey is moving to an “endemic” period as cases of …
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LONDON – Chinese companies listed in New York fell sharply during premarket trade on Tuesday after surging COVID-19 cases fuelled fears for the world’s second-largest economy and sent mainland firms …
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By Brenda Goh and Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI -Manufacturers of everything from flash drives to glass for Apple iPhone screens are warning of shipment delays as they comply with Chinese controls …
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BEIJING – China has seen increasing positive changes in its economic performance backed up by surprisingly good economic data, but the impacts of the latest COVID-19 resurgence need to be …
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By Sarah Wu and Norihiko Shirouzu TAIPEI/BEIJING -China’s efforts to curb its largest COVID-19 outbreak in two years has forced companies from Apple supplier Foxconn to automakers Toyota and Volkswagen …
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By Julie Steenhuysen and Marisa Taylor – The Biden administration wants to expand a federal COVID-19 tracking system created during the pandemic to provide a more detailed view of how …
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By Nancy Lapid – The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet …
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WASHINGTON – The White House said on Monday that the Omicron BA.2 sub-variant of COVID-19 had been circulating in the United States for some time, with roughly 35,000 cases at …
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HONG KONG -Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Monday there were no plans to tighten strict social distancing measures as the Chinese-ruled territory battles to contain a coronavirus surge …
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A look at the day ahead in markets from Julien Ponthus. There’s arguably never a good time for the COVID-19 pandemic to make a comeback but the surging cases in …
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– Former U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was feeling fine other than a scratchy throat. “I’ve had a scratchy throat for …
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BEIJING -Mainland China reported 1,807 new local symptomatic COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the highest daily figure in two years and more than triple the caseload of the previous day, as …
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By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI -Mainland China reported more than 1,500 new local COVID-19 infections on Saturday, the most since the first nationwide outbreak in early 2020, as the Omicron variant …