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13.06.2022 / 05:37

Asian stocks sink, bond yields tick higher amid US CPI hike, Covid-19 scare from China. Details here

U.S. stock futures pointed to further losses at the reopen, with the S&P 500 indicating 1.54% lower, after Friday's 2.91% retreat. The dollar hit 135 yen for the first time in two decades, buoyed by a rise in Treasury yields that continued into Tokyo trading, with the 10-year reaching a more than one-month peak of 3.201%, putting it just two-tenths of a basis point from the highest since November 2018.

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China: Bar-linked Covid outbreak in Beijing is ‘ferocious’, says official

Covid-19 outbreak, resulting in a new tightening of curbs since Thursday. At least two districts have closed some entertainment venues. The capital city had only relaxed curbs less than two weeks ago that had been imposed to fight a major outbreak that began in April. The sprawling Universal Beijing Resort - a theme park on the city's outskirts - on Friday rescinded a plan to reopen.

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China: Beijing warns of ‘explosive’ Covid outbreak, Shanghai conducts mass testing

Covid curbs in Beijing since Thursday, with at least two districts closing some entertainment venues after a flare-up in a neighbourhood full of nightlife, shopping and embassies. While China's infection rate is low by global standards, it maintains a zero-Covid policy, citing the need to protect the elderly and the medical system, even as other countries try to live with the virus. So far, the country of 1.4 billion has seen just 5,226 deaths from Covid-19.

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Hotel occupancies cross 65% mark for the first time since covid outbreak: Report

₹5,850. This led to revenue per available room (RevPAR) rising 5% from April 2019 to ₹3,804.

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News Scan for Jun 03, 2022

A study of 4,737 COVID-19 patients in Israel conducted during the Omicron surge concludes that Pfizer's antiviral drug Paxlovid roughly halves the risk of severe COVID-19 or death, according to findings published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.For the retrospective cohort study, researchers analyzed data on

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'Monkeypox won't become a pandemic but..': What WHO said on the virus outbreak

LONDON : The Monkeypox virus cases have been spreading outside of the African continent as well, wherein cases have been reported from countries where the disease is not endemic- Europe, US, Latin America. Closely following the viral outbreak Monkeypox, which is the smaller version of Small pox, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that it is unlikely that the outbreak will become a pandemic outside of Africa. The health expert Dr Rosamund Lewis also added that it remains unclear whether infected people who are not displaying symptoms can transmit the disease. As of now, more than 300 cases, suspected and confirmed, of the Monkeypox virus have been reported.

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Strawberries sold in grocery stores across the country recalled after Hepatitis A outbreak

This photograph shows packaged strawberries in Ayamonte, Huelva, on May 20, 2022. Photo by Jorge Guerrero / AFP via Getty Images) A certain brand of strawberries has been recalled by the U.S.

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Mexico confirms first case of monkeypox - health official

monkeypox is not endemic have reported outbreaks of the viral disease, with more than 200 confirmed or suspected infections mostly in Europe.

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News Scan for May 27, 2022

Symptomatic COVID-19 cases are responsible for more viral transmission than asymptomatic infections, suggests an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of 130 studies published yesterday in PLOS Medicine.A team led by University of Bern researchers in Switzerlan

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News Scan for May 25, 2022

Transmission of COVID-19 was significantly lower, and viable virus was detected for a shorter period, in fully vaccinated patients and staff isolated at a South Korean hospital than in their partially vaccinated and unvaccinated counterparts, finds a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.A team led by researchers from the University of Ulsan in Seoul studi

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S. Korea says N. Korea launched suspected intercontinental ballistic missile, 2 other missiles

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on May 25, 2022, after North Korea fired three ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan according to South Ko SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's government says one of the three weapons North Korea launched Wednesday was a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile. South Korea's government says the launches are "a grave provocation" that threaten international peace.

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Washington health officials investigate presumptive case of monkeypox

SEATTLE - Washington health officials said Monday they were investigating a presumptive case of monkeypox in the state. It's one of less than ten confirmed or suspected monkeypox cases in the U.S.Few details were immediately known, but the presumptive case of monkeypox virus was reported to Public Health Seattle & King County on Sunday.Health Officer Dr.

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News Scan for May 23, 2022

While COVID-19–related thyroid inflammation usually resolves shortly after the acute illness, about half of participants in a study presented today at the 24th European Congress of Endocrinology still had thyroid abnormalities a year later. The congress is being held May 21 to 24 in Milan, Italy.University of Milan researchers monitored levels of thyroid-stimulati

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Monkeypox likely spread through sex at 2 raves in Europe, expert suggests

World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event” that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe.In an interview with The Associated Press, Dr. David Heymann, who formerly headed WHO’s emergencies department, said the leading theory to explain the spread of the disease was sexual transmission among gay and bisexual men at two raves held in Spain and Belgium.Monkeypox has not previously triggered widespread outbreaks beyond Africa, where it is endemic in animals.“We know monkeypox can spread when there is close contact with the lesions of someone who is infected, and it looks like sexual contact has now amplified that transmission,” said Heymann.

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Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe, expert says

Monkeypox Virus Present In Human Vesicular Fluid. (Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) LONDON - A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as "a random event" that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe.In an interview with The Associated Press, Dr.

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Monkeypox outbreak: Have we learned anything from COVID pandemic? Key pts

1. Whenever there is a viral outbreak, people tend to fight the last war. During the Ebola outbreak of 2014, there was an extreme paranoia, which led to downplaying of coronavirus at the initial stage. Now, because people catastrophically underestimated COVID, they are panicking about monkeypox. The first test is now how we handle the current crisis without panicking.

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What is monkeypox? Scientists stunned by cases in US, Europe

monkeypox in Africa say they are baffled by the disease's recent spread in Europe and North America.Cases of the smallpox-related disease have previously been seen only among people with links to central and West Africa. But in the past week, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, U.S., Sweden and Canada all reported infections, mostly in young men who hadn’t previously traveled to Africa.France, Germany, Belgium and Australia confirmed their first cases of monkeypox on Friday."I’m stunned by this.

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Monkeypox outbreak: Health chiefs 'actively investigating' UK's gay bars and spas

gay and bisexual bars and spas as they try to contain the monkeypox outbreak. Nine cases of the extremely rare disease have been confirmed in the UK so far, with six of those cases relating to men who have sex with men, according to the Daily Mail.Officials say this is "highly suggestive of spread in sexual networks".There is reportedly a similar pattern developing across Europe.

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Experts decry conspiracy theories surrounding recent bird flu outbreak

A Karlsruhe Zoo employee feeds penguins in a protective suit. In early February, avian influenza, a highly contagious form of bird flu, was detected at Karlsruhe Zoo. WASHINGTON (AP) - Brad Moline, a fourth-generation Iowa turkey farmer, saw this happen before.

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North Korea Covid-19 cases surge, WHO says higher likelihood of new variants spread. see details

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North Korea COVID outbreak raises new variant concerns: WHO warns

Certainly, it's worrying if countries ... are not using the tools that are now available, said WHO

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News Scan for May 16, 2022

A randomized, controlled trial of 400 adults hospitalized for COVID-19–related respiratory failure suggests that awake prone positioning doesn't significantly reduce the need for endotracheal intubation at 30 days, but the authors caution that the effect size was imprecise and a therapeutic benefit cannot be ruled out.Published yesterday in JAMA, the study was led by McMaster University res

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tests positive for Covid-19. Read here

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North Korea reports 6 deaths after admitting Covid-19 outbreak

North Korea’s health care infrastructure remains broken and many of the North's unvaccinated population are malnourished.

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Kim Jong-un finally admits Covid is in North Korea as he plunges country into lockdown

North Korean government has always insisted that there had been no Covid-19 cases within its country’s borders.But today Pyongyang admitted for the first time that the pandemic had spread to North Korea.Leader Kim Jong-un has for the last two years been boasting that his country’s strict "quarantine front” had held firm when every other country in the world’s defences had failed.“There has been the biggest emergency incident in the country, with a hole in our emergency quarantine front, that has been kept safely over the past two years and three months since February 2020,” the official KCNA news agency said.Kim has now ordered a strict national lockdown after revealing that there has been an Omicron outbreak in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.

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News Scan for May 04, 2022

Nearly 13% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had serious neurologic illnesses in the first year of the pandemic, suggests an international study published last week in Critical Care Explorations.The observational study, led by Boston University researchers, a

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Pandemic not over yet! Another outbreak of Delta or new Covid variant likely this summer: Study

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Covid doing WFH: Harsh Goenka explains why China is witnessing virus surge

He answered “Finally the virus is tired and wants to Work from Home.

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Federal investigators order Amazon to review severe weather procedures after workers killed during tornado

Edwardsville, IL, tornado before and after photos. (FOX Weather)EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Federal investigators are ordering Amazon to review its severe weather procedures after a tornado outbreak in December was responsible for the partial collapse of a warehouse outside of St.

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4 Republicans claw for an edge in live TV Pennsylvania governor's debate

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Leading candidates for the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania’s open governor's office made big promises in Wednesday night’s debate about how they’ll ramp up the economy and spend state dollars, as they clawed for an edge in a huge nine-person field.Four of the nine candidates appeared at the live-televised prime-time debate, spending part of the hour in the studio of WHTM-TV in Harrisburg trying to establish an identity or an edge on a rival.The four met the polling threshold set by the station’s parent company as they vie for the nomination to succeed the term-limited Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat.

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Hinshaw, Copping to provide update on COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta

COVID-19 briefing Wednesday afternoon.That briefing will be live streamed in this story at 3:30 p.m.It comes a week after Health Minister Jason Copping acknowledged that hospitalizations have been increasing since the lifting of wider public health measures including mask mandates and gathering restrictions.Copping said COVID-19 hospital admissions ticked up about three per cent that week, but pointed out there were fewer people in ICUs with the virus than the previous week. COVID-19 outbreaks hit long-term care facilities in Calgary as 4th dose campaign underway The ongoing pandemic also appears to have hit long-term care facilities lately.

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News Scan for Apr 27, 2022

Following the reappearance of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) Equateur Province, the country today launched an rVSV-EBOV vaccine campaign, tapping an initial shipment of 200 doses, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today.The campaign will use a "ring vaccination" strategy, targeting contact

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Scots schools with highest Covid-19 infections since start of pandemic

The Scottish schools with the highest Covid-19 outbreaks since the pandemic have been named by Public Health Scotland.

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Everything you need to know about the outbreak of sudden liver disease in children

A pedestrian wearing a protective face mask walks past the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. As the novel coronavirus has spread in the U.S., the CDC is under increasi A puzzling outbreak of sudden liver disease in nearly 200 children has health authorities in Europe and the U.S. racing to find answers.The illnesses have no known connection, although a possible link with a virus that can cause colds is being investigated.

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China: Shanghai reports 1st deaths from current COVID-19 outbreak

Shanghai authorities on Monday reported the first COVID-19 deaths of the latest outbreak in China’s most populous and wealthiest city.

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News Scan for Apr 15, 2022

Rates of upper airway infections (UAIs) such as croup and bacterial tracheitis among pediatric COVID-19 patients, though low, rose after the Omicron variant became dominant in December 2021, with more than one fifth of hospitalized children with both conditions developing severe illness, estimates a study today in JAMA Pediatrics.The University of Colorado–led US National COVID Cohort Collaborat

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Don't feed birds this spring!

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota is asking people to not fill bird feeders or birdbaths to help stop the spread of bird flu this spring. In a post on Facebook, The Raptor Center’s Executive Director and Veterinary Epidemiologist, Dr. Victoria Hall urged the public to do everything they can to help prevent the gathering of songbirds. Hall says the country is facing an unprecedented outbreak of avian influenza (HPAI) in wild birds. While most research about bird flu’s effects centers around waterfowl, shorebirds and seabirds, since they are the birds that most often survive the illness, the Raptor Center is concerned about the virus’ effect on raptors as they often die from the virus."During these unprecedented times, we recommend doing anything that we can to try and help our wild bird populations.

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Storm fatigue: Small Mississippi town has seen more tornado warnings this year than anywhere else in America

MERIDIAN, Miss. - Another severe weather outbreak is sweeping through much of the South this week -- their fourth outbreak in as many weeks, leading anxious residents once again casting a wary eye on the skies.An overlay of the Wednesday's daunting severe weather risk outlook by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center matched with the number of tornado reports and Tornado Warnings already received this year illustrates the issue. There have already been about 25 earlier tornado reports this year inside the area of greatest risk for Wednesday.The area of greatest risk stretches into Mississippi which is likely not a surprise to those who live there.No place has had to defend against tornados as much as Mississippi this year. There have already been 87 tornado reports in the state -- more than Texas despite being 1/6th the size -- and accounting for nearly 20% of all tornado reports in the nation in 2022.

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News Scan for Apr 14, 2022

In its first evaluation of COVID-19 exposures among US healthcare professionals (HCPs) over the first year of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that most HCPs were likely infected at work rather than in the community.The study, published yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Contro

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Is Shanghai’s Covid-19 disaster China’s future?

Time is running out for China to switch to a more sustainable strategy for containing the virus

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News Scan for Apr 13, 2022

Two new studies describe benefits of the monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment casirivimab-imdevimab in adult COVID-19 outpatients, both suggesting lower rates of hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and death in an era dominated by the Delta variant.University of Pittsburgh researchers led the first study, published

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Quebec Halloween night sword attack trial suspended due to COVID-19 outbreak

Accused in Quebec City sword attack to argue not criminally responsible for killings Justice Richard Grenier told the jurors in attendance Wednesday the case would be postponed until next Tuesday, which would permit 11 jury members to hear the case and allow any other juror who is positive for COVID-19 to isolate.Grenier says he’s hopeful the trial can resume next week without any other problems and says lawyers will discuss ways of shortening the presentation of evidence.The Criminal Code stipulates that a minimum of 10 jurors is required to deliver a verdict.The first juror tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday.Girouard’s trial was expected to last between four and five weeks.

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News Scan for Apr 12, 2022

Approximately 2.4 out of every 1,000 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 developed myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle that typically follows viral infections, according to an international study published yesterday in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Circulation.When including possible myocarditis cases, the rate increases to 4

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More Kinder chocolate recalled in Canada for possible salmonella contamination

Kinder brand chocolate products have been recalled in Canada over fears of salmonella contamination.Last week, Kinder recalled several products due to possible contamination. On Monday, Health Canada announced several more items are being pulled from store shelves across Canada.Over 20 products are now on the recall list, ranging from Kinder Easter egg hunt kits to Christmas advent calendars.Health Canada confirmed in the recall notice that so far there have been “no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of these products in Canada.” Canada’s food industry making adjustments amid large bird flu outbreak Kinder brand chocolate products have also been recalled in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the U.K., Norway, Sweden, Spain and the United States.Among the recalled products (all with best before dates ranging from June 19, 2022, to Nov.

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Health chiefs issue hepatitis alert to Scots parents after 13 children catch bug in mystery outbreak

Health officials investigating a hepatitis outbreak among young children have confirmed that the number of cases in Scotland has risen to 13.

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‘Eat one meal a day': Shanghai's Covid-19 lockdown puts megacity out of food

COVID cases since 1 March, yet nobody has died and there is only one seriously ill person. Such statistics fly in the face of the rest of the world's experience with COVID.

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Mimi Reinhard, secretary who typed up Schindler's list, dies at 107

Oskar Schindler's factory where the German manufacturer employed Jews and saved over 1,000 of their lives. The factory is to become a museum.

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‘The virus is not done with us’: Edmonton care home experiences worst COVID-19 outbreak yet

As the provincial government encourages Albertans to get back to normal, life inside long-term care facilities is anything but. Dan Grummett reports.

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In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease in a particular time and place. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire continent. Four linked cases of a rare infectious disease may be sufficient to constitute an outbreak. Outbreaks include epidemics, which term is normally only used for infectious diseases, as well as diseases with an environmental origin, such as a water or foodborne disease. They may affect a region in a country or a group of countries. Pandemics are near-global disease outbreaks when multiple countries across the world are infected.

United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0