Health news roundup: Beijing city reports five new local COVID cases as of 3 p.m. Tuesday; Saudi Arabia lifts COVID-19 travel restrictions to Turkey, India, Ethiopia and Vietnam, etc.

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Beijing city reports five new local COVID cases as of 3 p.m. Tuesday

The Chinese capital Beijing reported five new local cases of COVID-19 as of 3 p.m. Tuesday, a local health official said. Of the five cases, three were already isolated for medical observation before their infection was confirmed, and two were discovered during community screening, said Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control. , during a press briefing.

Saudi Arabia lifts COVID-19 travel restrictions to Turkey, India, Ethiopia and Vietnam

Saudi Arabia on Monday lifted coronavirus-related travel restrictions on its citizens traveling to Turkey, India, Ethiopia and Vietnam, state news agency SPA reported. Earlier this month, the kingdom lifted measures imposed to prevent the spread of the virus, including the requirement to wear face masks indoors.

Lebanon announces first case of monkeypox – state news agency

Lebanon announced its first case of monkeypox on Monday, state news agency NNA reported, citing the health ministry.

The patient had come from abroad and is currently in quarantine at home, the NNA said citing a statement from the ministry.

COVID mistakes cannot be repeated this winter, says German hospitality industry

German hotels are still limping towards recovery from the pandemic, and lawmakers need to prepare now to be ready for the coming winter, the head of hotel body DEHOGA said.

Despite pent-up demand, the industry faces a possible third year of losses in 2022, with 57% of companies reporting lower sales last month compared to May 2019 before the crisis, the chairman of DEHOGA said on Tuesday, Guido Zoellick, during a press conference.

Some Omicron subvariants evade Sinopharm vaccine antibodies – Chinese study

A small Chinese study detailed in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases showed that neutralizing antibodies against certain Omicron subvariants were largely undetectable after two doses of a Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, with a booster shot only restoring them. partially. The study comes as China, which has only approved locally developed COVID injections, including the Sinopharm vaccine, strives to improve vaccination rates, maintaining a “dynamic zero COVID” policy aimed at eradicating all epidemics while many countries have adopted a learning to live with the virus approach.

Pfizer buys 8.1% of the capital of the French vaccine company Valneva

US healthcare giant Pfizer has agreed to invest 90.5 million euros ($95.24 million) to buy an 8.1% stake in a French vaccine company, as the companies announced developments in their partnership to fight Lyme disease. Pfizer will buy the stake from Valneva, which is also working on its COVID-19 vaccine, at a price of 9.49 euros per share, via a reserved capital increase.

AstraZeneca and Ionis consider US approval after positive trial data

An interim analysis by eplontersen from AstraZeneca and its partner Ionis Pharmaceuticals showed the investigational drug met key goals in a late-stage trial in patients with a rare and life-threatening disease, the manufacturer said on Tuesday. of Anglo-Swedish medicines. Based on the results, the companies plan to file an application to market the therapy in the United States later this year in patients with transthyretin-mediated hereditary amyloid polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN).

Explainer-What to know about COVID vaccines for young children

The United States began rolling out COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months old after receiving the green light from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here are some details about the two messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines from Moderna Inc and Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE for young children:

Macau hotel closed after COVID case, 700 people to be quarantined

A hotel and casino in the world’s largest gambling center in Macau was closed by authorities with 700 people inside on Tuesday due to an outbreak of coronavirus infection at the property, the local broadcaster reported. CT. The lockdown comes as China’s special administrative region carries out two-day mass testing of its more than 600,000 residents after dozens of locally transmitted coronavirus cases were discovered over the weekend.

US factories spring up to make medical gloves, spurred by pandemic

Rising from a muddy field on the outskirts of the small town of Fayette, Alabama is a brick-and-mortar symbol of the global COVID pandemic: a new glove factory. When completed in 2024, the complex, owned by Japanese company SHOWA Glove Co, will be able to produce around 3 billion medical-grade nitrile gloves a year from its dozen new five-story automated assembly lines.

(With agency contributions.)

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