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Japan to offer up to $100 million in aid to help Indo-Pacific nations fight COVID

Japan plans to extend up to $100 million in aid to developing countries in the Indo-Pacific region to help them better battle the COVID-19 pandemic, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Friday.

Reuters · May 13, 2022

Why Neo Performance Materials Shares Are Surging Today

Neo Performance Materials Inc (TSX:NEO) (OTC:NOPMF) reported first-quarter revenue growth of 27.1% year-over-year to $166.28 million. Adjusted EPS improved to $0.56 from $0.39 in 1Q21. Volumes saw a decline of 16.6% Y/Y, reflecting the recent spike in COVID-19 in Asia, several natural disasters that impacted production facilities and customers, and the ongoing…

Benzinga · May 13, 2022

White House Says Currently No Plans To Share COVID-19 Shots With North Korea Battling Outbreak

The Biden administration says it currently has no plans to share COVID-19 vaccines with North Korea, Reuters reported citing White House press secretary Jen Psaki. However, it supported providing aid to North Korea. North Korea reported its first COVID-19 outbreak, calling it the "gravest national emergency" and ordering a national…

Benzinga · May 13, 2022

Seth Meyers: ‘It is on Democrats to do something to improve people’s lives’

Late-night hosts discuss Democrats’ floundering on inflation, North Korea’s Covid outbreak and the potential domino effect of overturning Roe v Wade

The Guardian - US · May 13, 2022

Antibiotics can lead to life-threatening fungal infection because of disruption to the gut microbiome – new study

Fungal infections kill around the same number of people each year as tuberculosis. They mostly take hold in people who are vulnerable because they have a defective immune system caused by an underlying disease, such as cancer, or a viral infection, such as HIV or COVID. Our new study shows…

The Conversation · May 13, 2022

UK airlines and airports scramble to hire staff as travel takes off again

Lengthy background checks and a tight labour market are hampering the replacement of thousands of workers axed during Covid

The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2022

Peru's Covid orphans struggle to get by

As Peru slowly emerges from the devastating Covid-19 pandemic, the government is trying to help the country's Covid orphans. According to the medical journal The Lancet, around 100,000 children in Peru lost at least one of their two parents to the pandemic; more than anywhere else in the world. The…

France 24 · May 13, 2022

Baby drowned in three inches of bathwater as mother fainted from adverse reaction to Covid jab

Lawyer Louise Atkinson blacked out and fainted after jab, an inquest into her nine-month-old Eleanor heard

The Independent UK · May 13, 2022

Schools in Northumberland continue to feel the pressure of Covid absences despite fall in cases

ONS data has shown cases of the virus are falling across the country but remains higher in the North East

Chronicle Live · May 13, 2022

TS records 52 COVID cases

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The Hindu · May 13, 2022