 | | | | The target will require officials to accelerate COVID testing and the transfer of positive cases to quarantine centers. | | | | | | New bird flu cases were detected in a commercial chicken flock in Pennsylvania and a backyard flock in Utah, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday, with the outbreak now having spread to more than 30 states in the country. | | | | | | Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic COVID-19 cases on Saturday and other areas across China tightened controls as the country kept up its "dynamic clearance" approach that aims to stamp out the highly transmissible Omicron variant. | | | | | | COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by a Sinopharm subsidiary and Sinovac Biotech to target the Omicron variant were approved for clinical trials in Hong Kong, the companies said on Saturday. | | | | | | A jury in Denver, Colorado, acquitted dialysis provider DaVita and its former CEO Kent Thiry on Friday of charges that they conspired with competitors not to hire each other's employees. | | | | | | Angry neighbors worry that they are being put at increased risk of infection. | | | | | | China's General Administration of Customs (GACC) has suspended imports from three Brazilian beef exporters - JBS SA , Marfrig and Naturafrig - for one week, the newspaper Valor Economico reported, citing a statement sent to Brazil's embassy in Beijing. | | | | | |
