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China grants emergency approval for its first Covid drug
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
The move comes as regulators around the world give the green light to treatments -- particularly for high-risk groups -- amid worries over the new Omicron varia...
Hong Kong mandates Covid tracing app for most adults in bars, restaurants
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
The international finance hub has kept infections at bay thanks to mostly closed borders, some of the world's strictest quarantine rules and ongoing social dist...
HIV infections drop, but Covid hampers fight: WHO
Dec 07, 2021 (AFP)
"Africa has made significant progress against HIV over the past decade, reducing new infections by 43 percent and nearly halving AIDS-related deaths," the WHO A...
Dutch hospital welcomes back troops amid Covid surge
Dec 06, 2021 (AFP)
Helped by 50 members of the military with medical backgrounds, the UMC Utrecht hospital has opened a second care unit which can take patients with Covid-19 from...
UN biodiversity summit postponed over new Covid variant
Dec 02, 2021 (AFP)
"Uncertainties posed by the Omicron variant and resulting travel measures and restrictions" have forced physical meetings to be postponed, they said in a statem...
Chinese city suspends rail imports after fresh Covid outbreak
Dec 01, 2021 (AFP)
Health authorities reported 91 new cases in or close to Manzhouli -- a city of 231,000 in Inner Mongolia that handles more than 65 percent of China-Russia trade...
Biden marks World AIDS Day with plan to eradicate disease
Dec 01, 2021 (AFP)
"It's not hyperbole to suggest that we are within striking distance," he told an audience of activists and political supporters at the White House. Biden's spee...
Moderna boss says vaccines likely no match for Omicron: FT
Nov 30, 2021 (AFP)
Stephane Bancel told the newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that data would be available on the effectiveness of current vaccines in the next two weeks...
AIDS timeline: Four decades but still no silver bullet
Nov 30, 2021 (AFP)
- 1981: First alert - In June 1981, US epidemiologists report five cases of a rare form of pneumonia in gay men in California, some of whom have died. Unusual v...
China says Omicron will 'lead to challenges' for Winter Olympics
Nov 30, 2021 (AFP)
Although China has largely quashed the coronavirus within its borders through travel restrictions and snap lockdowns, recurrent domestic outbreaks linked to the...
AIDS: Years of research but still no vaccine
Nov 30, 2021 (AFP)
So why have decades of HIV/AIDS research yielded so little progress on a jab to prevent a disease that claimed some 680,000 lives in 2020? As the globe marks Wo...
British Airways halts Hong Kong flights over quarantine
Nov 29, 2021 (AFP)
"We have made the difficult decision to temporarily suspend flights to Hong Kong while we review operational requirements for this route," said a statement from...
China leader promises Africa 1 bn Covid vaccine doses
Nov 29, 2021 (AFP)
In a speech made via videolink to a China-Africa summit near Senegal's capital Dakar, President Xi Jinping said his country would donate 600 million doses direc...
HIV infection rates not decreasing fast enough: UNAIDS
Nov 29, 2021 (AFP)
Published two days ahead of World AIDS Day, the report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS said shortcomings in the pandemic response can also be ...
In slap at China, US praises SAfrica's detection of new Covid strain
Nov 27, 2021 (AFP)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with South Africa's international relations and cooperation minister, Naledi Pandor, and they discussed cooperation on v...
German air force transfers patients as clinics fill up
Nov 26, 2021 (AFP)
A specially equipped Airbus 310 medical transport plane took off from Memmingen in the hard-hit state of Bavaria headed for Muenster/Osnabrueck airport in the w...
Flights cancelled, schools shut over three Covid-19 cases in Shanghai
Nov 26, 2021 (AFP)
Beijing has largely succeeded in controlling the spread of the coronavirus within its borders through travel restrictions and snap lockdowns, but frequent domes...
France says 5th Covid wave hitting at 'lightning' speed
Nov 21, 2021 (AFP)
The seven-day average of new cases reached 17,153 on Saturday, up from 9,458 a week earlier, according to the health authorities, an increase of 81 percent. "Th...
First Wuhan Covid case days later than initially reported: scientist
Nov 19, 2021 (AFP)
Rather than the original patient being a man who had never been to the Wuhan market where wild and domestic animals were sold, the first known case of Covid-19 ...
China journalist jailed over Covid reports; Iraq gets Million doses of Pfizer
Nov 19, 2021 (AFP)
The UN rights office voiced alarm at reports that 38-year-old Zhang Zhan's health was deteriorating rapidly and that her life was at serious risk from the hunge...
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