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 [June 08, 2022]
(Reuters) - Hopes of an improvement
in key economic growth metrics in China have increased as more
pandemic-related restrictions ease in the country, including the
scheduled reopening of the Universal Beijing Resort next week.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
* China's exports are expected to have expanded at a faster pace in May
as factories reopened and supply chain disruptions calmed after Shanghai
began to emerge from a lockdown, while imports also likely rose, a
Reuters poll showed.
* The Universal Beijing Resort will reopen on June 15 after being closed
more than a month to comply with China's COVID-19 prevention measures,
but it will cap the number of visitors at no more than 75% of capacity.
* North Korea on Wednesday reported more than 54,610 new people showing
fever symptoms amid the reclusive nation's first-ever COVID-19 outbreak,
state media KCNA said.
EUROPE
* Poland hopes to get up to about $2.81 billion in COVID-19 recovery
funds from the European Union this year, the finance minister told news
agency ISBnews, after Brussels cleared the way for Warsaw to receive the
money.
* Tourism is rebounding more quickly in Portugal than in some parts of
Europe, but the number of foreign visitors this year is still expected
to lag the 2019 pre-pandemic record, the country's hotel association AHP
said.
AMERICAS
* Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly
to recommend that the agency authorize Novavax Inc's COVID-19 vaccine
for use in adults.
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Residents line up for nucleic acid tests on a street at a
residential area, after the lockdown placed to curb the coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) outbreak was lifted in Shanghai, China June 7,
2022. REUTERS/Aly Song
 AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
* The European Investment Bank has committed 75 million euros ($80
million) to finance construction of a new facility in Senegal that
will produce COVID-19 and other vaccines for use across Africa.
MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS
* New data presented at the annual American Society of Clinical
Oncology meeting in Chicago suggests that blood cancer patients have
strong T-cell responses to COVID-19 vaccines despite a significantly
weaker antibody response to the shots than patients with solid
tumours.
* Pfizer Inc said it would spend $120 million to expand
manufacturing of its COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid at its
Michigan plant, as demand ramps up.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
* Japan's economy shrank slightly less than initially reported in
the first quarter, as private consumption remained resilient in the
face of resurgent COVID-19 infections and companies rebuilt their
stock, offsetting a drop in business spending.
(Compiled by Dina Kartit, Shailesh Kuber and Uttaresh.V; Edited by
Bill Berkrot and Shounak Dasgupta)
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