After mandating the wearing of masks outdoors last week, the government sought the additional measures, with the number of new cases rising to around 5,000 a day in the past week. Bank of America reaffirmed a buy rating on shares of Johnson & Johnson in a research report on Monday, July 20th. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 66,658 shares in the company, valued at $10,233,336.16. The governments scientific advisers at that time recommended ministers go further, suggesting a two- to three-week national lockdown to short-circuit rapidly rising infection rates. 2020 Market data provided is at least 10-minutes delayed and hosted by Barchart Solutions. Unlike a study hold imposed by government regulators, a pause is initiated by the sponsor of the drug trial and often can be quickly resolved. The SEC announced the game has been tentatively rescheduled for Dec. 12. (Cheryl Gerber/Courtesy of Johnson & Johnson via AP, File), Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte meets the media in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. The institutional investor owned 261,402 shares of the companys stock after acquiring an additional 184,993 shares during the period. The new system comes three weeks after the governments last nationwide program, which banned gatherings of more than six people and required pubs and restaurants to close at 10 p.m. WARSAW, Poland Polands Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says hell quarantine after he met last week with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus. Chuang said the man had been working in the eastern province of Jiangsu, which, according to Chinas National Health Commission, has not reported any recent cases of local transmission. TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwan says it has disagnosed coronavirus in a Taiwanese citizen returning from China for the first time since February. In other news, EVP Kathryn E. Wengel sold 16,115 shares of Johnson & Johnson stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, September 2nd. It seems the market has basically discounted in its present legal issues and potential liabilities. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini), A man wearing a mask in the colors of the U.S. flag looks at the ancient Colosseum in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. This leaves ample room, including with its free cash flow, to pay a worst-case scenario of $50 billion. In a weekly briefing published Tuesday, WHO said weekly virus cases and deaths across Europe jumped by 34% and 16% respectively. Bosnia has reported 926 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus in a country of 3.3 million. Such pauses are not uncommon in long clinical studies, as some participants come down with an unrelated illness. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and eleven have given a buy rating to the stock. The numbers on Tuesday bring the total in the country to more than 108,600 cases and 448 deaths. The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, September 8th. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Several brokerages have recently issued reports on JNJ. Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ). (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha), Primary care workers take part in a protest against their working conditions during a strike in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. At a meeting of top government officials from across the country Tuesday, Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar said 3,497 so-called smart lockdowns have been imposed in districts across the country of 220 million people. HERES WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK: WHO: Europe reported more than 700,000 coronavirus cases last week, India has 55,342 coronavirus cases, lowest single-day tally since mid-August, Israel surpasses 2,000 deaths from coronavirus, A safety monitoring panel will try to determine what might have caused sickness in a second COVID-19 vaccine trial paused over unexplained illness. Optimum Investment Advisors decreased its holdings in shares of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He says Johnson & Johnson gave information on the case to the independent monitoring board overseeing the safety of patients in the study, as the research protocol requires. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 67.44% of the companys stock. Poland's government has announced the entire country a yellow zone after the number of new registered case of coronavirus infection spiked to almost 4,300 on Thursday. WHO described lockdowns a last resort when countries have no other options and urged officials to use more targeted methods to stop the virus. In fact, JNJ spent $4.7 billion on share buybacks or 59% of its FCF. Various regions in Spain, including northern Navarra and northeastern Catalonia, are either planning or implementing fresh restrictions against the spread of the new coronavirus. Without a shared set of values and guiding principles deeply ingrained throughout the organization, it is doubtful that Johnson & Johnsons response would have been as rapid, cohesive, and ethically sound..