More supermarkets, convenience stores and Canadian pharmaceuticals online reopened, while hair salons and vegetable markets will also be gradually allowed to receive visitors. The city plans to gradually increase domestic flights and rail services, and from Monday will begin reopening supermarkets, convenience stores and pharmacies. Shanghai on Monday said that 15 of its 16 districts had stamped out transmission outside quarantined areas, allowing them to provide a roadmap to exit the lockdown in three stages. From May 16, taxis and private cars have been allowed back on roads in outer districts with zero-COVID status such as Jinshan, Fengxian and some towns in the Pudong New Areas. The Prince of Wales has spoken out about the 'nightmare situation' in Ukraine during a trip to Romania to meet refugees who have fled the war in their homeland. Schools, which suspended in-person classes in early March, will re-open in stages, giving priority to students who will take college and high school entrance exams soon. The administration has learned from previous campaigns that the people weighing whether to take a vaccine or get their child vaccinated will be influenced by those they trust, such as doctors and community leaders. “While vaccines don’t erase all possibility of infection, the data shows the vaccine reduces the amount of virus in the person’s body, even if someone does get infected, which further reduces the risk of transmission,” said Dr. Deena Hinshaw.

Thus far, 58% of the available 2.5 million Pfizer vaccines have been ordered and just 34% of the Moderna vaccines, officials said. More than 9,000 permanent PCR testing stations have been set up in Shanghai, and residents will be required to produce negative tests taken within 48 hours to enter public venues such as metro stations. At the same time, China's railway operator started to gradually increase the number of trains arriving and departing while airlines will begin to increase domestic flights. They would no longer need to quarantine if their test is negative, but if it’s positive, they must isolate for 10 days after their symptoms started. Spain's COVID-19 infection rate as measured over the past 14 days hit a new record of 2,989 cases per 100,000 people on Monday, a more than tenfold increase since the start of December. The administration expects vaccinations of young children to start as early as June 21 if the U.S.

People in higher risk groups, including those over 65, pregnant women, children aged between six months and five years and Indigenous Tasmanians, are eligible for free flu vaccinations at GPs and pharmacies. Mackinnon said she would have preferred an earlier appointment given the rising COVID-19 cases in the Haldimand-Norfolk area and high-risk health conditions in her family, but she said it’s still a good feeling to finally have her daughter booked after nearly two years of public health precautions. Health Minister Yvette D'Ath is reluctant to set up jab hubs, saying it will take health workers off the front line when public hospitals are already facing capacity pressures. Mr Rockliff said the health department recommended "urgently lifting" flu vaccination rates, despite almost 200,000 Tasmanians already receiving the jab. The jab is available for free at state government-run clinics but, unlike many mainland jurisdictions, still costs at GPs and pharmacies for people outside higher risk groups. The West Virginia settlement guarantees the state an additional payout if Teva and Allergan reach larger-than-expected settlements of their nationwide opioid liability, Morrisey said. May 25 (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and AbbVie's Allergan unit reached a settlement worth $161.5 million to resolve claims the companies fueled an opioid epidemic in West Virginia, state attorney general Patrick Morrisey said on Wednesday.

MADRID, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The Spanish government is working on rules to limit the retail price of COVID antigen tests, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday, after shortages were reported in many pharmacies across the country last month. Charles chatted briefly to Stephen Noble, a minister and Major with the Scarborough branch of the Salvation Army, who for the past month has been working in Romania with the organisation's international emergency services section. She said the province is working on a centralized vaccine booking system to ease the burden on pharmacies and to help prevent abuse of the system. Nova Scotia reported 74 new cases as well as its 78th and 79th death of the pandemic in what Premier Iain Rankin described as a “tragic weekend” for the province. North Korea's tally of the fever-stricken stood at 1,213,550, with 50 deaths by Sunday, after KCNA reported 392,920 more cases of fever, and eight more deaths. Hundreds of personnel in camouflage uniforms from the Korean People's Army medical units were seen rallying in the capital Pyongyang in photos released by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Kim ordered immediate deployment of the "powerful forces" of the army's medical corps to "stabilise the supply of medicines in Pyongyang City", it added