Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa in September, 2018 in Hawthorne, California. (Photo by DAVID MCNEW / AFP) Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant …
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‘Vaccine tourists’ fly from abroad for injections on US beach
A long line of people snaked across the sand of Miami Beach, Florida, as dozens of travelers from Latin America waited their turn at a pop-up coronavirus vaccination boot…
Pfizer/BioNTech to supply vaccines for Olympic athletes
In a statement, the firms said they would coordinate with national sporting bodies to make sure that coronavirus vaccines are available to anyone who needs one before tra…
Austria tests toddlers for virus with ‘lollipops’
A pre-school boy uses a newly developed, lollipop-shaped Covid-19 test prior to the testing of pre-schoolers at the ‘City of Vienna Kindergarten’ in Vienna, Austria on April 28, …
‘Political gesture’: Indian doctor says UK donation of ventilators is meaningless at this point
Medical equipment sent by the UK to India to help the country cope with its huge surge in Covid-19 cases is merely a “political gesture” and will have little impact, a leading Indi…
Vaccine doses pass one billion mark as global cases top new record
Indigenous nurse of the Misak ethnic group Anselmo Tunubala, 49, inoculates an elderly indigenous woman with a Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19 in the Guambia indigenous reservat…
Blood clots should be listed as rare Johnson & Johnson side effect: EMA
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in a statement that it had found a “possible link” between the jab and the clots, following eight such cases in the United States, one of w…
Japan seeks release of Japanese journalist held in Myanmar
In this Feb. 26, 2021, photo, Japanese journalist Yuki Kitazumi raises his hands as he is escorted by police upon arrival at the Myaynigone police station in Sanchaung township i…
Prince Philip’s funeral procession gets ready in Windsor
WINDSOR, England (AP) — Military bands played and Queen Elizabeth II joined a procession Saturday at Windsor Castle ahead of a funeral where her husband Prince Philip was being rem…
China’s Coronavac 80% effective at preventing Covid deaths: Chile results
“These figures should convey peace of mind to the country,” Health Minister Enrique Paris told journalists as he announced the outcome of two months of vaccination in Chile, in Feb…
