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New Zealand's Ardern to host emergency APEC virus summit
Jul 15, 2021 (AFP)
The virtual meeting, called with less than five days' notice, would also examine the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group's response to its ...
Myanmar says will receive 6 million Covid vaccine doses from China
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
The military government has "bought four million" doses and Beijing will donate a further two million, a senior official from the information ministry told AFP ...
Iraq virus surge stretches health system after Covid unit fire
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
Nearly 1.5 million Covid-19 cases have been reported in Iraq since the start of the pandemic, including more than 17,000 deaths, overwhelming hospitals crippled...
Australia denies meddling in PNG rollout of Chinese jab
Jul 09, 2021 (AFP)
Relations between Canberra and Beijing have deteriorated sharply in recent years, with disputes over everything from telecoms giant Huawei to the origins of the...
Pentagon considering mandatory COVID-19 vaccines
Jul 07, 2021 (UPI)
While he noted that the vaccine is currently optional and administered under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Emergency Use Authorization, full FDA appro...
Moderna begins human trial for multi-strain mRNA flu vaccine
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
The company intends to recruit 180 adults in the United States for the Phase 1/2 portion of the trial to evaluate the safety and strength of immune response to ...
Suu Kyi vaccinated 19 in military custody; As China tightens Myanmar border over COVID
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
Suu Kyi has been all but invisible since being detained by the military in February, with a handful of court appearances in a special court in Naypyidaw her onl...
Tunisia hospitals struggle with Covid 'tsunami'
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
"Some patients have died without us realising it," said Imen Fteiti a nurse at the Ibn Jazzan hospital in the central city of Kairouan, one of the hardest hit b...
Iraqi restauranteurs pay bribes to dodge virus curfew
Jul 01, 2021 (AFP)
After Covid-19 restrictions hammered his business last year, Seif said he decided to do what many of his neighbours in the capital's central Karrada district we...
New face mask prototype can detect Covid-19 infection
Jun 30, 2021 (SPX)
The sensors are based on freeze-dried cellular machinery that the research team has previously developed for use in paper diagnostics for viruses such as Ebola ...
China certified malaria-free after 70-year fight
Jun 30, 2021 (AFP)
The country reported 30 million cases of the infectious disease annually in the 1940s but has now gone four consecutive years without an indigenous case. "We co...
US urges Covid cooperation at G20 as China critical
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
Italy welcomed foreign ministers of the Group of 20 major economies to the southern city of Matera for their first in-person talks since the start of the pandem...
Record Covid deaths in Russia as Australia locks down major cities
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
Fears grew over major sporting events like Euro 2020 and the Olympic Games, even as an AFP tally showed the world passed the milestone of over three billion Cov...
Hong Kong bans flights from UK over Delta Covid variant
Jun 28, 2021 (AFP)
"All passenger flights from the UK will be prohibited from landing in Hong Kong," the statement said. The UK would now be designated in the "extremely high-risk...
China gives one-billionth Covid shot as Brazil toll hits milestone
Jun 20, 2021 (AFP)
The global death toll from Covid-19 is now more than 3.8 million and many nations are still battling outbreaks, but vaccine drives in some countries are allowin...
US sends 2.5 mn Covid vaccine doses to Taiwan
Jun 19, 2021 (AFP)
China expressed fury earlier this month when US senators visited Taiwan and announced the vaccine donation amid simmering tensions between Washington and Beijin...
South Africa sends army medics to Covid-hit province
Jun 18, 2021 (AFP)
South Africa, the worst-hit country in the continent, has entered a third Covid wave, with new daily cases doubling over the past two weeks. Gauteng province --...
Chinese jab added hurdle for some African visitors to EU
Jun 18, 2021 (AFP)
"It seems very much as if a vaccine has become a visa," said Moroccan columnist Karim Boukhari. "I have my visa, but my vaccine is Chinese. It's as if I don't h...
Guinea to declare end to Ebola epidemic
Jun 17, 2021 (AFP)
Speaking during a webinar hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), Health Minister Remy Lamah said the viral epidemic will be declared over on Saturday --...
Republicans introduce bill to fire Fauci, face of US Covid response
Jun 15, 2021 (AFP)
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene led a handful of colleagues in announcing the so-called Fire Fauci Act, which would reduce the famed infectious disease exp...
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