 | | | | Cuba has begun testing its Soberana 2 coronavirus candidate vaccine on children ages three to 18 years, the government said this week. | | | | | | Romania has agreed to sell 1.17 million doses of excess Pfizer/BioNTech (PFE.N), vaccines to Denmark, the Danish health ministry said on Tuesday. | | | | | | The U.S. State Department on Tuesday said the United States will donate 2 million COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines to Peru, State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter said, as the country battles a deadly coronavirus outbreak. | | | | | | Members of the U.S. military who were vaccinated against COVID-19 showed higher-than-expected rates of heart inflammation, although the condition was still extremely rare, according to a study released on Tuesday. | | | | | | President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday announced a 7 billion euros ($8.33 billion) public funding plan to invest in healthcare as France aims to improve its health system after the COVID-19 pandemic put hospitals under pressure. | | | | | | Oxygen prices in Indonesia's capital had more than doubled and some suppliers reported shortages on Tuesday after a surge in COVID-19 cases that prompted the Red Cross to warn of a coronavirus "catastrophe" in Southeast Asia's biggest country. | | | | | | France's parliament adopted legislation on Tuesday that will allow single women and lesbians access to in-vitro fertilisation, unwinding some of Western Europe's strictest rules governing medically assisted pregnancies. | | | | | | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA.TA), Endo International (ENDP.O) and Abbvie Inc's (ABBV.N) Allergan misleadingly marketed opioid drugs as having a low addiction risk, a lawyer for a New York county told jurors Tuesday, urging them to hold the companies liable. | | | | | | A refrigerator failure in Estonia destroyed more than 68,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines last week after the temperature rose to 15 degrees Celsius, the Health Board said on Tuesday. | | | | | | Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday imposed a dusk to dawn curfew, banned inter-city travel and cut business hours with immediate effect in response to increasing coronavirus infections. | | | | | |
