The official data showed that the total confirmed Covid-19 cases in Japan amounted to 500,000 this past weekend. Infections spread rapidly, with cases increasing from 400,000 in early February. Vaccines remain widely unavailable in the country, which is now struggling with the emergence of more contagious variants.
On May 19, the world-famous Shakespeare’s Globe Theater on the South Bank in London, for the first time since the pandemic, hopes to open its doors to the public. A Midsummer Night’s Dream scoop of a summer season of live drama and the eerie silence that currently hangs over this beautiful replica Elizabethan playhouse will be broken by the sound of audience members.
Protesters took to the streets of Bucharest to protest against restrictive measures to combat the spread of Covid-19, as Romania recorded more than 4,000 new cases and 139 deaths on Saturday. About 1,000 people gathered in Victory Square and University Square evening clock arrangements and business closings.
Thailand on Sunday reported 967 new cases of coronavirus, a one-day record, as the Southeast Asian country third wave of infections. The new cases have raised the total number of infections in Thailand to 32,625, with deaths standing at 97, according to the kingdom’s Department of Disease Control.
Valneva, the French Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer backed by the British government, has offered a US initial public offering to take advantage of the investor. appetite for biotechnology during the pandemic. The Paris-listed company, with a market capitalization of more than € 1 billion, raised $ 100 million worth of US deposit.
The Novasyt shares listed in London tumbled nearly 40 per cent to 421.4p before the weekend after hitting a income warning when the UK Department of Health and Social Care did not extend its offer contract for Covid-19 tests. Novacyt said he had sought legal advice and added that he had strong grounds to enforce his contractual rights.
Vaccitech, the company that owns the technology behind the AstraZeneca vaccine, has warned that concerns about the rare side effect of blood clotting could affect royalties and affect reputation products in its pipeline. The University of Oxford on Friday published its prospectus for an initial public offering of at least $ 100 million on Nasdaq.
China’s Disease Control Center is pondering my vaccines and changing the doses to increase the effectiveness. According to local media, Gao Fu, head of the agency, said health authorities were “considering solving the problem that the efficacy of existing vaccines is not high”.