 | | | | Kosovo said on Friday it agreed to buy 1.2 million Pfizer/BioNTech (PFE.N), (22UAy.DE) coronavirus vaccines, the first shots bought by the government as it works to speed up inoculations. | | | | | | The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. | | | | | | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday that their two countries were united in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic together. | | | | | | The top U.S. health agency on Friday relaxed guidance for mask-wearing at summer camps, saying that camps do not need to require children to wear masks or physically distance if all participants have been fully vaccinated. | | | | | | Scientists are revisiting a central mystery of COVID-19: Where, when and how did the virus that causes the disease originate? | | | | | | The World Health Organization's (WHO) top emergency expert said on Friday the search for the origin of the coronavirus was being "poisoned by politics", days after U.S. President Joe Biden ordered aides to find answers. | | | | | | The Netherlands will ease COVID-19 lockdown measures next week, allowing bars and restaurants to serve indoors and museums to reopen in what Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday called a "calculated risk". | | | | | | A total of 316 cases of rare blood clots with low platelets have been recorded in adults who received AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine in the European Economic Area, an executive of the region's drug regulator said. | | | | | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an Amgen Inc (AMGN.O) drug for lung cancer patients with a specific mutation in a gene known as KRAS whose disease has worsened after treatment with chemotherapy or other medicines. | | | | | | France reported that the number of people in intensive care units with COVID-19 fell by 102 to 3,104 on Friday, while the overall number of people in hospital with the disease fell by 669 to 17,272. | | | | | |
