Opioid deaths in the months prior to the pandemic’s start in March 2020 were relatively consistent, and then surged when COVID-19 begin to spread across the world, according to the study, published in JAMA Network Open on Wednesday.

SAS, which is due to report second-quarter earnings on Thursday, completed a capital raising in late 2020 after a year of deep losses. ($1 = 8.3100 Swedish crowns) (Reporting by Helena Soderpalm and Johan Ahlander; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle and Alexander Smith)

MADRID, daftar slot online May 26 (Reuters) – An eight-week decline in Spain’s coronavirus infection rate has begun to tail off, Health Minister Carolina Darias said on Wednesday, pointing to younger people who are less likely to be vaccinated as the cause.

“Market conditions also make it difficult to predict how demand will develop ahead of the important summer season given that customers are increasingly choosing to book their trips on short notice,” SAS said in a statement.

MADRID, May 26 (Reuters) – Spain’s “bad bank” said on Wednesday its shareholders had agreed to convert 1.43 billion euros ($1.75 billion) of subordinated debt into equity to bolster its books as sustained losses have eroded its capital base.

Some preventative public health measures have been put into place over the years, such as first responders carrying Narcan, a drug which can prevent overdoses, and Good Samaritan laws that protect those who seek medical treatment from an overdose from legal charges.  

STOCKHOLM, May 26 (Reuters) – Sweden and Denmark said on Wednesday they had agreed to offer ailing airline SAS, in which both countries own stakes, a 3 billion Swedish crown ($361 million) loan guarantee.

dent President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered US intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the Covid-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laborator

“The stagnation of the decline we have been seeing is heavily influenced by the epidemic in population groups below the age of 50,” she told a news conference after a weekly meeting of regional health chiefs.

“It is still the Government’s position that SAS is important for Denmark’s accessibility, Danish jobs, companies and the Danish economy in general,” the Danish government said, adding that SAS had been hard-hit by the pandemic.

The institution, set up to take on bad loans from the financial crisis in 2012 and known by its Spanish acronym Sareb, has been struggling since its creation as a slump in real estate prices has depressed the value of loans and assets.

Researchers from the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network, St Michaels University and Drexel University gathered overdose death data from the province of Ontario and compared the first six months of the pandemic to overdose deaths in previous six month timespans.

As the pandemic is putting additional strain on Sareb, shareholders are working with the government to find a way to allow them exit Sareb’s capital structure, two sources familiar with the matter said.

Unlike neighbouring France, which plans to offer vaccines to all adults from May 31, Spain is progressively working its way downwards through age groups and has just begun giving shots to people aged 50-59.

imate. Biden’s order signals an escalation in mounting controversy over how the virus first emerged — through animal contact at a market in Wuhan, China, or through release of the coronavirus from a highly secure research laboratory in the

ecies. This theory was widely accepted at the start of the pandemic, but as time has worn on, scientists have not found a virus in either bats or another animal that matches the genetic signature of S

point. Citing a US intelligence report, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that a trio from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized with a seasonal illness in November 2019, a month before Beijing disclosed the existence of a mysterious pneumonia

ickly. The United States and other countries have called for a more in-depth probe into the pandemic’s origins, after a report by an international team sent by the World Health Organization to China earlier this year proved inc

owing. “We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers seriously until we have sufficient data,” a group of researchers from top US universities wrote in a letter published by leading journal Science i

tates. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) previously funded bat coronavirus research in Wuhan, but has denied supporting “gain of function” experiments that involve modifying a virus so that it becomes more transmissible

House. According to Biden, agencies are currently split over the two possible sources for the virus that swept the planet over the past year, killing more than 3.4 million people — a figure experts say is undoubtedly an unde

cident Agencies should “redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days,” Biden said in a statement released by the Wh