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In Brazil’s Amazon, isolated indigenous people welcome COVID vaccine
By Leonardo Benassatto and Ueslei Marcelino YAUARETÊ, Brazil (Reuters) – An army helicopter flew to two isolated indigenous villages in Brazil’s Amazon jungle this week with a welcome cargo – coronavirus vaccines. The Hupda communities lined up to get their shots. Traditional medicine prescribed by a shaman is highly respected here, but there was no (More…)
EV rollout will require huge investments in strained U.S. power grids
By Nichola Groom and Tina Bellon (Reuters) – During several days of brutal cold in Texas, the city of Austin saw its fleet of 12 new electric buses rendered inoperative by a statewide power outage. That problem will be magnified next year, when officials plan to start purchasing electric-powered vehicles exclusively. The city’s transit agency (More…)
Weeks after winter storms, Mississippi city still grappling with water crisis
By Joseph Ax and Rory Doyle JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) – Officials in Mississippi’s largest city, Jackson, are aiming to have running water largely restored by the weekend, nearly three weeks after devastating winter weather left tens of thousands of residents without service. The city on Friday was again distributing non-potable water at four sites so (More…)
Czech Republic asks other countries for help with COVID-19 patients: health ministry
Posted March 5, 2021
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech Republic has asked Germany, Switzerland and Poland to take in dozens of COVID-19 patients as the situation in its own hospitals has reached a critical point, Prague’s (More...)
Exclusive: Oxford study indicates AstraZeneca effective against Brazil variant, source says
Posted March 5, 2021
By Rodrigo Viga Gaier
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Preliminary data from a study conducted at the University of Oxford indicates that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC is effective against (More...)
Analysis: End of the road for Hong Kong’s democratic dream as China ‘improves’ its voting system
Posted March 5, 2021
By James Pomfret
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Ever since Britain returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997, opposition activists have tried to bring full democracy to the city, believing that China (More...)
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