 | | | | The U.S. healthcare industry and analysts praised a U.S. Supreme Court decision that preserved the Obamacare health plan, with insurer CVS reaffirming that it will rejoin the individual insurance exchange and others predicting more federal support. | | | | | | Travellers from non-European Union countries who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be allowed to enter Germany from June 25 unless the country is designated a virus variant area, the interior ministry said on Thursday. | | | | | | Coronavirus infections have halved in Havana since authorities started administering Cuba's experimental vaccines en masse in the capital a month ago, official data shows, raising hopes about their efficacy even as cases increase nationwide. | | | | | | Mexico recorded 4,253 new confirmed coronavirus cases and an additional 168 deaths on Thursday, according to Health Ministry data, bringing the total number of cases to 2,467,643 and the death toll to 230,792. | | | | | | The United States has administered 314,969,386 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 377,215,060 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. | | | | | | A U.S. hospital on Wednesday gave the first infusion of an expensive, controversial new Alzheimer's drug from Biogen Inc (BIIB.O) before Medicare had even said what it will pay for - and with some doctors upset by its approval last week. | | | | | | Residents of the Lisbon region will not be allowed to leave the area at weekends as authorities scramble to control a spike in COVID-19 infections, the government said on Thursday. | | | | | | A coalition of nine Argentine port worker unions will go on a nationwide 24-hour strike starting at midnight to press for vaccinations against the coronavirus, the labor groups said in a statement on Thursday. | | | | | | German biotech firm CureVac (5CV.DE) could allow its network of manufacturing partners to be repurposed to make vaccines developed by other companies should its own experimental shot fail, its chief executive told Reuters on Thursday. | | | | | | The White House will finish allocating 80 million U.S.-made COVID-19 shots that it has pledged to ship abroad in the coming days, with shipments going out as soon as the countries are ready to receive them, a top U.S. official said on Thursday. | | | | | |
