Dutch airline KLM said it intends to reinstate almost all of its international routes this year as vaccine rollouts offer hopes of revival for the travel industry. KLM’s president and CEO Pieter Elbers told CNBC the carrier will also add a new route to Saudi […]
Ramping up vaccination rates for Covid-19 will help boost the recovery in the travel and tourism industry, a panel of experts told CNBC. Vaccination is the only comprehensive way to fight the impact of the coronavirus, Ritesh Agarwal, CEO and founder of Indian budget hotel […]
In this article BIIB A 70-year-old man from Rhode Island on Wednesday was the first person to receive an infusion of Biogen’s newly approved Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, outside of a clinical trial. Marc Archambault of Wakefield was treated with the intravenous drug – which is […]
Some countries are seeing an increasingly worrying rise in Covid cases in Africa that World Health Organization officials said Wednesday don’t represent the true size of the outbreak there. Weekly Covid cases jumped 44% to 95,000 while fatalities rose 20% to 1,400 over the previous […]
The delta Covid variant, first detected in India, has now spread to more than 80 countries and it continues to mutate as it spreads across the globe, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday. The variant now makes up 10% of all new cases in the […]
In this article 5CV-DE CureVac stock plunged 50% in extended trading Wednesday after the German biopharmaceutical company released preliminary efficacy results for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate that failed to meet success criteria. The vaccine candidate demonstrated an interim efficacy of 47% against Covid-19 disease “of […]
LONDON — The chief executive of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Wednesday outlined how policymakers and the health industry can learn from the coronavirus crisis to improve pandemic preparedness. “Pandemics have been with us for centuries. If you go back into the recorded history, probably […]
In this article TRIP Tripadvisor announced Wednesday the launch of Tripadvisor Plus, a travel subscription service that will provide U.S. customers with access to travel savings and other perks. The service is priced at $99 a year, and comes as many consumers are starting to […]
In this article PFE Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC on Wednesday that he expects life could return to normal for developed countries by the end of this year and the rest of the world by the end of 2022. By that time, there should […]
GUANGZHOU, China — The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has reported zero new locally transmitted coronavirus cases for the first time since a new cluster of cases cropped up in May. The recent uptick in cases prompted mass testing and lockdowns, and also threatened global […]
