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Lincolnshire escapes tier 4 from Boxing Day
Southampton has been included in tier four after its coronavirus rate rose to 175.8 per 100,000 people - more than doubling in a week. Health secretary Matt Hancock. Emergency assistance, attending a support group of up to 15 people, and respite care for a vulnerable person or a person with a disability are also permitted. [Full Article...]
Feds Sue Walmart Over Role in Opioid Crisis
If the retailer is found liable for the alleged Controlled Substances Act violations, it could face penalties of up to $67,627 per unlawful prescription and $15,691 for each order not reported to the DEA, the DOJ said. The company said it has "always empowered our pharmacists to refuse to fill problematic opioids prescriptions, and they refused to fill hundreds of thousands of such prescriptions... [Full Article...]
Sinn Fein proposal for GB-NI travel ban rejected by Stormont Executive
It is expected that Minister for Health Robin Swann will consult the Attorney General about the legal implications of introducing a travel ban between Northern Ireland and Great Britain under public health legislation dating from 1967. "It will therefore be important to have evidence that this measure is proportionate to the risk that the additional measures are meant to mitigate". [Full Article...]
FDA Warns Amazon's Whole Foods Market for Misbranding Food Products
The FDA stated this seems to be a pattern of conduct for Whole Foods, which has had a similar number of recalls for the same reason in previous years, too. Whole Foods is responsible for investigating and determining the causes of the violations identified and for preventing their recurrence, the FDA said in the letter issued to the company on December 16. [Full Article...]
Covid 19 coronavirus: Scramble to find 'missing link' in Sydney cluster
Police located the 37-year-old woman at a Sanctuary Point home and spoke to her and three other occupants who were all directed to self-isolate. A former Hong Kong village head was killed in an apparently well-organised knife attack at a tombstone factory in the New Territories on Tuesday, sparking a citywide manhunt for the gang involved.Detectives were also investigating whether the gang used ... [Full Article...]
India likely to approve AstraZeneca vaccine by next week
This is contrary to earlier speculations that India will give go-ahead once the United Kingdom authorities approve the vaccine candidate for mass use. One official said, "Serum is ready". Global Positioning System are expected to start giving the Oxford Covid vaccine to Scots aged over 80 from next month, the Health Secretary has announced. [Full Article...]
Israeli pharmacist fine after accidentally injected with four doses of COVID vaccine
Jessica Kalender-Rich, a geriatric care specialist and member of a national advisory committee on vaccine distribution in nursing homes. The first round of vaccinations are intended for 24 million Americans who work in health care settings or who live or work assisted living facilities. [Full Article...]
CDC Seeks Passengers on Flight Where Man Died of COVID
All passengers opted to continue on to Los Angeles . The airline also claimed to be unaware that the man may have been infected with the novel coronavirus at the time the plane was diverted, but rather that he had suffered a cardiac arrest. [Full Article...]