(Reuters) – The number of coronavirus infections worldwide reached 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters count, which increased by one million in just five days. The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six and a half months, and the head of the World …
Read More »New US health crisis looms as patients without COVID-19 delay care
(Reuters) – A Texas man who waited until his brain tumor was the size of a softball; a baby who suffered an ear infection for six days; a cardiac patient who died: The resurgence of COVID-19 is creating another health crisis as hospitals fill up and patients fear or cannot …
Read More »New US health crisis looms as patients without COVID-19 delay care
(Reuters) – A Texas man who waited until his brain tumor was the size of a softball; a baby who suffered an ear infection for six days; a cardiac patient who died: The resurgence of COVID-19 is creating another health crisis as hospitals fill up and patients fear or cannot …
Read More »OPEC meeting worries oil investors
Text size Joe Klamar / AFP via Getty Images OPEC + and its allies may be ready to start pumping more crude, and that prospect is sending shivers through the oil markets. Oil prices fell on Monday. Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, fell 1% to $ 42.80 a barrel …
Read More »Coronavirus crisis may worsen “worse and worse and worse,” warns WHO
GENEVA / ZURICH (Reuters) – The new worldwide coronavirus pandemic will worsen if countries fail to comply with strict health precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday. FILE PHOTO: The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, attends a press conference organized by the Geneva …
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