 | | | | Hong Kong reopened gyms, beauty parlours, theme parks and cinemas on Thursday for the first time in more than four months, as authorities relaxed some of the world's toughest COVID-19 curbs, which have weighed on people and businesses. | | | | | | U.S. health officials have sent out a nationwide alert warning doctors to be on the lookout for symptoms of pediatric hepatitis, possibly linked with a cold virus, as part of a wider probe into unexplained cases of severe liver inflammation in young children. | | | | | | Child vaccination rates in the United States fell during the COVID-19 pandemic as many children skipped doctors appointments and states eased vaccine requirements during remote learning, according to a government study released on Thursday. | | | | | | Italy reported 75,020 COVID-19 related cases on Thursday, against 99,848 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily number of deaths fell to 166 from 205. | | | | | | G20 countries have provisionally agreed to set up a global fund for pandemic preparedness, likely to be housed at the World Bank. | | | | | | U.S. health officials have sent out a nationwide health alert warning doctors to be on the lookout for symptoms of hepatitis in children linked with an adenovirus infection - a virus that causes the common cold. | | | | | | Some hospitals in Canada's most populous provinces are cancelling or postponing medical procedures in the face of another wave of the coronavirus pandemic, increasing backlogs of procedures that health practitioners say will take years to work through and could cost more lives. | | | | | | Bulgaria's food safety agency reported on Thursday a new outbreak of bird flu on a laying hens farm in southern Bulgaria, prompting it to cull the remaining flocks there as it struggles to contain the spread of the disease. | | | | | | The United States government said on Thursday it was extending a requirement that non-U.S. citizens crossing land or ferry terminals at the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders must be vaccinated against the coronavirus. | | | | | | Here's what you need to know about the pandemic right now: | | | | | |
