Daily Archives: 04/07/2023


India Asks States to Ramp Up Testing as COVID Cases Climb

India’s federal government asked states to identify emergency hotspots and ramp up testing for COVID-19 after the country recorded its highest daily case count since September, a Reuters tally showed on Friday. There were 6,050 new cases of COVID-19 in …


Samsung Cutting Memory Chip Production as Profit Slides

Samsung Electronics said Friday it is cutting the production of its computer memory chips in an apparent effort to reduce inventory as it forecasted another quarter of sluggish profit.  The South Korean technology giant, in a regulatory filing, said it …


COVID-19 Weighs Heavily on This Year’s World Health Day

Celebrations marking World Health Day are taking place in the shadow of the coronavirus that has sickened more than 762 million people around the world and killed more than 6.8 million.  “For the past three years, [the World Health Organization] …