October 2, 2022 – Asia Excite

ACN Newswire

Bio Farma secures multi-year Purchase Contract from UNICEF for its novel Oral Polio Vaccine type 2 (nOPV2)

October 2, 2022

BANDUNG, INDONESIA, Oct 2, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - PT Bio Farma (Persero), the holding company for pharmaceutical state-owned enterprises (SOEs), will export its novel Oral Polio Vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) having secured a purchase contract with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for 2022 & 23. Under...

International

Brazil votes in tense Lula-Bolsonaro presidential contest

October 2, 2022

Brazil's former President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads a silent march, in Sao Paulo, Brazil Oct 1, 2022. (MARIANA GREIF / REUTERS) BRASILIA – Brazilians are voting on Sunday in the first round of their country's most polarized election in decades, with leftist Luiz Inacio Lula...

International

West criticized for downplaying pandemic amid virus warning

October 2, 2022

Medical workers treat patients in the COVID-19 ward at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare system campus and medical center in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on Jan 11, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP) BEIJING - Claims by some Western leaders that the COVID-19 pandemic "is over" has drawn criticism...

International

Truss tries to reassure UK on economic plan

October 2, 2022

Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss arrives to attend the Conservative Party conference at the ICC, in Birmingham, England on Oct 1, 2022. (RUI VIEIRA / AP) LONDON - British Prime Minister Liz Truss tried to reassure her party and the public on Sunday by saying she should have done more...

International

Bosnians vote to choose either nationalists or reformists

October 2, 2022

Bosnia election.jpg SARAJEVO – Bosnians went to the polls on Sunday to choose the country's new collective presidency and lawmakers at national, regional and local levels, deciding between long-entrenched nationalist parties and reformists focused on the economy. Nearly 3.4 million people are eligible to vote amid the worst political crisis...

International

Hurricane-ravaged Florida, Carolinas face daunting recovery

October 2, 2022

A man walks over a broken section of the Pine Island Road in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Matlacha, Florida on Oct 1, 2022. (RICARDO ARDUENGO / AFP) MIAMI - The largely innocuous but soggy remnants of Hurricane Ian drifted through Virginia early on Sunday, leaving in their wake...

International

Exit poll: PM’s party wins Latvian parliamentary elections

October 2, 2022

Latvian Prime Minister and Head of board of leading political party Jauna Vienotiba (New Unity) Krisjanis Karins smiles as he speaks to the media while awaiting the results of parliament elections, in Riga, Latvia on Oct 1, 2022. (ROMAN KOKSAROV / AP) RIGA - Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins' center-right...

International

First health worker killed in latest Ebola outbreak in Uganda

October 2, 2022

Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, Sept 29, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria. (HAJARAH...

ACN Newswire

G20 Sherpa committed to address global solutions

October 2, 2022

JAKARTA, Oct 1, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - The third G20 Sherpa meeting in Yogyakarta has concluded with G20 member countries agreeing to seek solutions to myriad global problems.The 3rd Sherpa Meeting G20 Indonesia delegations travel around Borobudur Temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday (29/9). (ANTARA PHOTO/Andreas...