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Online mental health startup Cerebral has raised $300 million in a funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, it said on Wednesday, lifting its valuation fourfold to $4.8 billion in less six months after the last capital raise.

Turkey's medical equipment suppliers have seen the value of their unpaid government bills soar 50% in the last three months to 9 billion lira ($658 million) and the lira meltdown is piling further pressure on the import-reliant sector, its chief said.

U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Wednesday after Pfizer and BioNTech said a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine was shown to have a neutralizing effect against the new Omicron coronavirus variant in a laboratory test.

U.S. Senate Republicans were poised on Wednesday to try to up-end Democratic President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine and test mandate for private businesses, in a legislative push that appeared to have enough support from Democrats to succeed.

South Africa reported nearly 20,000 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, a record since the Omicron variant was detected, and 36 new COVID-related deaths.

Jurors in a New York state court are expected to hear closing arguments Wednesday over whether drugmakers AbbVie Inc and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd fueled an opioid epidemic in the state, concluding a trial that has lasted more than five months.

Indian COVID-19 vaccine makers are lobbying the government to authorise boosters as supplies have so outstripped demand that one drugmaker told Reuters it had suspended a plan to produce more than 100 million doses of Russia's Sputnik shot.

Finland plans to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for health and social care workers, the government said on Wednesday.

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has so far been detected in the Americas in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico and the United States, but it is just a matter of time before it circulates in more countries, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned on Wednesday.

California must prepare for an influx of women seeking abortions in the liberal state if the U.S. Supreme Court ends the constitutional right to the procedure, dozens of women's health and rights groups said in a report released on Wednesday.