 | | | | French virologist Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, has died, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday. | | | | | | U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday touted his plan to bring down the cost of prescription drugs as an antidote to high inflation on a day when government data showed consumer prices posted their biggest annual gain in 40 years in January. | | | | | | Biogen Inc is urging Medicare to broadly reimburse its recently authorized Alzheimer's drug, in response to a proposal by the U.S. government to sharply limit coverage of new drugs for the brain-wasting disease. | | | | | | French virologist Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, has died, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday. | | | | | | Italy reported 75,861 COVID-19 related cases on Wednesday, against 81,367 the day before, the health ministry said, while the number of deaths fell to 325 from 384. | | | | | | Czech restaurant and hotel operators saw light at the end of the tunnel on Thursday as the government cancelled rules requiring vaccination certificates to enter restaurants and events as Omicron infections started to ebb. | | | | | | Britain reported 66,638 new COVID-19 cases and 206 deaths within 28 days of a positive test on Thursday, government data showed. | | | | | | Mexico's agriculture ministry said on Thursday it will ban the entry of poultry products originating or coming from the U.S. state of Indiana after an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu. | | | | | | A U.S. appeals court panel on Wednesday declined to block a lower court ruling that President Joe Biden could not require federal employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. | | | | | | Spain lifted a requirement to wear face masks outdoors on Thursday as COVID-19 infections continue to recede from record heights but some Spaniards, wary of contagion, chose to keep the face coverings on. | | | | | |
