 | | | | India's total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. | | | | | | Contract drugmaker Emergent BioSolutions Inc (EBS.N) on Thursday posted a first-quarter profit compared with a year-ago loss, boosted by robust demand for its services that help produce COVID-19 vaccines. | | | | | | Chile, a global leader in vaccination, is considering issuing a "green card" to those inoculated against the coronavirus in an effort to encourage younger adults who may be reluctant to turn out for their shots, health officials said on Thursday. | | | | | | New York's attorney general said on Thursday she has opened a probe into whether baby food contains arsenic and other toxic metals, and asked four manufacturers to provide information on whether their infant rice cereal products are safe. In letters to Nestle's (NESN.S) Gerber, Beech-Nut Nutrition, Earth's Best Organic maker Hain Celestial Group (HAIN.O) and Happy Family Organics maker Nurture, Attorney General Letitia James also said she wants to ensure the companies' advertising complied with state consumer protection laws. | | | | | | The United States has administered 237,360,493 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 305,478,495 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. | | | | | | U.S. lawmakers from both parties and both houses of Congress have introduced eight antitrust bills aimed at tackling the problem of high and rising drug prices, including bills to stop brand name drug companies from paying generic firms to stay off the market. | | | | | | India's severe medical oxygen supply crisis is expected to ease by mid-May, a top industry executive told Reuters, with output rising by 25% and transport infrastructure ready to cope with a surge in demand caused by a dramatic rise in coronavirus cases. | | | | | | The raging state of the COVID-19 pandemic is India is a wake-up call for Africa that its governments and citizens must not let their guards down, the African Union's disease control agency warned on Thursday. | | | | | | Merck & Co Inc (MRK.N) said on Thursday it would take a bigger hit to sales this year than previously expected due to a resurgence in COVID-19 cases that has hurt demand for drugs that need to be given by doctors. | | | | | | Two or three months into the COVID-19 crisis, Mumbai gravedigger Sayyed Munir Kamruddin stopped wearing personal protective equipment and gloves. | | | | | |
