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WHO says confident China will cooperate on Covid origins probe
Aug 18, 2021 (AFP)
Pressure has again been mounting on Beijing to consider a fresh probe into the origins of a pandemic which has killed more than four million people and paralyse...
Pentagon to deploy up to 5 COVID-19 medical assistance teams in U.S.
Aug 17, 2021 (UPI)
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday the teams will include about 20 medical personnel, including doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists. Th...
Super-spreader events, local perception cloud judgment of COVID-19 risk
Aug 16, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new survey, published Monday in the journal Decision, the public's perception of risk and mortality remains highly variable and often fails to co...
'China's Fauci' probed for plagiarism after questioning Covid policy
Aug 16, 2021 (AFP)
Beijing has basked in its success in bringing to heel a virus that first emerged in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019, but was virtually extinguished throu...
Serbian cave hermit gets Covid-19 jab, urges others to follow
Aug 13, 2021 (AFP)
Last year, on one of his visits to town, the dreadlocked man with a long beard found out there was a pandemic raging. After vaccines against Covid-19 became ava...
China says bringing Delta-driven Covid outbreak under control
Aug 13, 2021 (AFP)
Multiple cluster outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta variant have spread to 48 cities in 18 provinces nationwide, infecting more than 1,282 people, officia...
Facebook delays return to campus as Delta variant rages
Aug 13, 2021 (AFP)
The leading social network set a new target of having employees back on its campuses in January, but promised to provide ample notice before they are required t...
Documentary probing Covid source puts China lab back under spotlight
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
China has reacted furiously to any suggestions that the pandemic, which has killed at least 4.3 million people since emerging in the city of Wuhan in December 2...
WHO asks China for more data on Covid origins as Russia deaths spike
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
The World Health Organization's plea came as Russia saw its highest daily death toll from the pandemic that has killed at least 4.3 million people worldwide. Th...
China approves first mixed-vaccine trial as Delta spreads
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
The trial will test the efficacy of combining an "inactivated" vaccine made by China's Sinovac with a DNA-based one developed by US pharmaceutical company Inovi...
Biological engineers find a new target for malaria drugs
Aug 11, 2021 (SPX)
To help overcome that resistance, scientists are now searching for drugs that hit novel molecular targets within the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that causes ...
China virus cases rise as Delta variant challenges Beijing
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
State media has described the current outbreak -- which has sparked local lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions -- as the most severe since the virus ...
Facebook shuts down vaccine disinformation 'laundromat'
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
The leading social network labeled the operating a "disinformation laundromat" which sought to legitimize false claims by pushing them through people with clean...
U.S. military to require COVID-19 vaccination by mid-September
Aug 09, 2021 (UPI)
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo to troops Monday he had consulted with military leaders and medical professionals about the mandate, prompting him...
Pentagon to mandate Covid shots for military
Aug 09, 2021 (AFP)
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo he would ask President Joe Biden to approve the move in about five weeks, even if none of the current vaccines gai...
China's Wuhan completes citywide Covid tests on 11 million residents
Aug 08, 2021 (AFP)
The tests -- which began on Tuesday -- provide "basically full coverage" of all residents in the city except for children under the age of six and students on t...
US making plans to reopen to fully vaccinated foreigners as China curbs travel
Aug 05, 2021 (AFP)
The two countries' travel-related moves come as the fast-spreading Delta variant cuts a deadly swath across the planet, not only affecting movement between coun...
Covid cases top 200 million worldwide as China vows massive vaccine boost
Aug 05, 2021 (AFP)
The more infectious strain is driving a resurgence in the pandemic, especially in the Asia-Pacific region where Thailand, Indonesia and Japan continued to see n...
Canada warns citizens about possible Hong Kong exit bans
Aug 05, 2021 (AFP)
The law, granting the immigration chief powers to bar people from boarding planes to and from the city, came into effect on Sunday. "Under this amendment, indiv...
China pledges two billion vaccine doses to world: Xi
Aug 05, 2021 (AFP)
The pledge came in a written message by Xi to a video forum on vaccine cooperation as China battles a fresh outbreak fuelled by the highly contagious Delta vari...
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