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China limits travel in most populous province over Covid-19 cases
May 31, 2021 (AFP)
Travellers leaving Guangzhou -- the capital of the southern province home to 100 million people -- must show negative Covid-19 test results from the past 72 hou...
Neighbourhood in south China under lockdown after fresh virus outbreak
May 29, 2021 (AFP)
The industrial hub north of Hong Kong home to nearly 15 million people has reported 20 new cases of the coronavirus in the past week. A notice by the Guangzhou ...
Hong Kong tycoons offer $1 million flat to boost Covid jabs
May 28, 2021 (AFP)
Worth HK$10.8 million (US$1.4 million), the one-bedroom apartment will be the lucky draw's grand prize, the property developers announced Friday. They will also...
CoronaVac reduces mortality by 97 percent: Uruguay study
May 28, 2021 (AFP)
In people who had received two doses, it reduced infection with the coronavirus by 57 percent and intensive care admissions by 95 percent, said a report by the ...
Covid origins search 'being poisoned by politics': WHO
May 28, 2021 (AFP)
"We would ask that we separate the science from the politics, and let us get on with finding the answers that we need in a proper, positive atmosphere," WHO eme...
Facebook reverses course, won't ban lab virus theory
May 27, 2021 (AFP)
The latest move by Facebook, announced late Wednesday on its website, highlights the challenge for the world's largest social network of rooting out false and p...
Covid sparks French rush for country homes
May 27, 2021 (AFP)
The FNSafer association, which is in charge of managing the rural property market, recorded 111,930 house purchases by people from outside the farming community...
China rails at Biden intelligence probe into virus origins
May 27, 2021 (AFP)
Washington is reviewing its diplomatic position with China on issues spanning trade, technological supremacy and rights, while it steps up efforts to hook Weste...
Defense Dept. eases COVID-19 travel bans at most installations
May 26, 2021 (UPI)
A Defense Department statement on Tuesday noted that of 230 military installations worldwide, restrictions remain at only 24. Eight are located in the United St...
China says US peddling conspiracies as Biden orders Wuhan lab report in 90 days
May 26, 2021 (AFP)
Led by the US, pressure is mounting for a new probe into the origins of Covid-19 after a World Health Organization (WHO) mission to China, beset by delays and d...
Biden orders intelligence report on Covid origins within 90 days
May 26, 2021 (AFP)
Agencies should "redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90...
Covid lab origin theory gains traction in United States
May 25, 2021 (AFP)
The government's position has shifted to agnosticism in recent weeks, with top pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dir...
Hong Kong warns it could end up binning unused vaccine doses
May 25, 2021 (AFP)
Hong Kong is one of the few places in the world fortunate enough to have secured more than enough doses to inoculate its entire population of 7.5 million people...
China rejects claim of illness at Wuhan lab in late 2019
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
Since infecting its first victims in the central Chinese city in late 2019, the pathogen has afflicted almost every country in the world, killing more than 3.4 ...
'We are at war' with Covid, says UN chief
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the "tsunami of suffering" sparked by the coronavirus crisis. Addressing the opening of the World Heal...
Countries urge deeper probe of Covid origins at WHO meet
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
Addressing the World Health Organization's main annual meeting of member states, representatives from several countries stressed the continued need to solve the...
EU lines up Covid travel pass, Eiffel Tower to reopen
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
The deal will allow anybody living in the EU's 27 countries to secure a digital health pass by the end of June that displays their vaccination status, results o...
Study: Pandemics spread in much the same way as invasive insects
May 19, 2021 (UPI)
According to the study, published Wednesday in the journal BioScience, the emergence and spread of both harmful pathogens and invasive species follow similar pa...
Singapore shuts schools, Taiwan bars foreigners to battle outbreaks
May 17, 2021 (AFP)
Taiwan also shut schools in the capital Taipei to control an outbreak, and the island banned all foreigners from entry or transit for a month unless they had a ...
Biden surges international vaccines aid in riposte to Russia, China
May 17, 2021 (AFP)
Biden confirmed that 20 million more doses are being released over the next six weeks, bringing the total earmarked for shipping out by the end of June to 80 mi...
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