Pandemic may have increased older adults' fall risk The COVID-19 pandemic may have increased older adults' risk of falling and injuring themselves, due to changes in physical activity, conditioning and mobility, a new national poll suggests. Aug 3, 2021 0 168
Guadeloupe to impose new curfew due to alarming COVID surge France's overseas territory of Guadeloupe is to return to partial lockdown for at least three weeks because of a "catastrophic" surge in COVID cases, officials announced Monday. Aug 3, 2021 0 91
China orders mass testing in Wuhan as COVID outbreak spreads China suspended flights and trains, canceled professional basketball league games and announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan, as widening outbreaks of the delta variant reached the city where the disease was first detected ... Aug 3, 2021 0 14
Rapid virus spread through Indonesia taxes health workers Irman Pahlepi is back at work in Jakarta's Dr. Suyoto public hospital, immediately resuming his duties treating COVID-19 patients after recovering from an infection himself—for the second time. Aug 3, 2021 0 82
Tunisia over worst of Covid wave but must speed up jabs: WHO Tunisia—which has seen the world's worst COVID-19 death toll—may be over the peak of the latest wave but the government must still speed up inoculations, the WHO said on Monday. Aug 3, 2021 0 6
US hits 70% vaccination rate—a month late, amid a surge The U.S. on Monday finally reached President Joe Biden's goal of getting at least one COVID-19 shot into 70% of American adults—a month late and amid a fierce surge by the delta variant that is swamping hospitals and leading ... Aug 3, 2021 0 3
Florida hospitals taking steps to battle record COVID surge Florida's largest hospital systems are expanding their coronavirus units, limiting visitors and fearing staffing shortages as they deal with the statewide surge that is breaking records set last year for both cases and hospitalizations. Aug 3, 2021 0 91
Swiss flavour firm gets taste for post-COVID health food boom Health foods will become a dominant nutrition trend in the post-COVID era, the boss of the Swiss group Firmenich, one of the world's major flavour and perfume manufacturers, told AFP. Aug 3, 2021 0 2
France's Sanofi expands mRNA drive with US firm purchase France's pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, which has lagged behind rivals in developing new generation mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, on Tuesday said it has purchased a US firm specialising in the technology. Aug 3, 2021 0 142
Masks encouraged in New York, but no city or state mandate New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio "strongly" urged even vaccinated people to start wearing masks indoors. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said unvaccinated transit employees in the metropolitan area would undergo weekly virus testing. ... Aug 3, 2021 0 222