Following is a abstract of present health information briefs.
Gay males, some trans people and sex workers should be vaccinated against monkeypox, French health body says
France’s HAS health authority on Friday really helpful widening the vaccination marketing campaign against monkeypox, saying that these most uncovered to the danger of contracting the virus by sexual relations should obtain an innocculation. “Men who’ve sexual relationships with different males and trans people who’ve a number of sexual companions” should be vaccinated, the HAS stated, in addition to people engaged in prostitution or in any other case working in “sexual consumption areas”.
After backlash, Beijing drops COVID vaccination mandate for crowded venues
Beijing’s metropolis authorities has dropped plans to permit solely vaccinated people to enter crowded venues reminiscent of libraries, cinemas, and gyms from Monday, following a powerful on-line backlash to the measure introduced earlier this week. The obligatory requirement would have marked a uncommon transfer in China, the place the central authorities insists on voluntary vaccination and has shortly overruled different makes an attempt by front-line officers to problem obligatory vaccination directives.
Invasion of big African land snails places Florida on the offensive
Hundreds of big African land snails have turned up on Florida’s Gulf Coast, officers stated on Friday, threatening to destroy an enormous array of vegetation and bushes, and posing the danger of transmitting a uncommon kind of meningitis to people. The snail, native to East Africa, is without doubt one of the most damaging on the planet, consuming at the very least 500 various kinds of vegetation, tree bark, and even paint and stucco on homes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s web site stated.
Shanghai faces a’ comparatively excessive’ threat of additional COVID neighborhood unfold
China’s industrial hub Shanghai faces a “comparatively excessive” threat of additional neighborhood transmission of COVID-19, Lei Zhenglong, an official on the National Health Commission, stated on Friday. Shanghai reopened most cinemas on Friday, sticking to a plan of gradual resumption of each day actions after lifting a two-month COVID-19 lockdown in June, whereas additionally making an attempt, like a number of different Chinese cities, to comprise resurgent infections.
Kenya, World Health Organization launch emergency hub
The Kenyan authorities and World Health Organization on Saturday launched a medical emergency hub in Nairobi, the primary in a community of African facilities they are saying will hasten responses to regional emergencies. The facility will embody a coaching middle, home a cadre of pros that may reply to a medical emergency inside its first 24 hours, and stockpiles of medical tools.
U.S. FDA grants full approval to Pfizer COVID vaccine for ages 12-15
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration stated on Friday it has granted full approval to Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged between 12 and 15 years. The vaccine, bought underneath the model title Comirnaty for adults, has been out there underneath an emergency use authorization since May 2021 for the 12-15 age group. It will now be bought underneath the identical model title for adolescents as properly.
China reviews 420 new COVID instances for July 9 vs 455 a day earlier
China reported 420 new COVID-19 infections on July 9, down from 455 a day earlier, in keeping with knowledge printed by the National Health Commission on Sunday. The whole included 319 asymptomatic infections, which China counts individually, whereas 76 have been imported and the remainder native transmissions.
Macau shuts casinos and different companies to comprise the COVID outbreak
Macau will shut nearly all industrial and industrial companies together with its casinos for one week from Monday, as authorities race to curb a surge of COVID-19 infections on the planet’s greatest playing hub. Essential companies together with hotels, supermarkets, and pharmacies will nonetheless stay open, metropolis officers stated as they introduced the measures at a press convention on Saturday.
Abbott says it has reopened the Michigan child method plant
Abbott Laboratories has reopened its Sturgis, Michigan child method plant, which was shut final month because of heavy rains, an organization spokesperson instructed Reuters on Saturday. Abbott resumed operations on July 1 and has began producing specialty child method EleCare.
(With inputs from businesses.)
