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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 ...
China takes Covid-19 controls to Everest with climber ban
May 17, 2021 (AFP)
The block on climbing was announced over concerns of the risk of Covid-19 infection by climbers starting out in Nepal, where the pandemic is raging. China was t...
Australia calls for empowering WHO after Covid panel
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
Australia has been in the firing line from China, its largest trading partner, over steps including backing US-led calls for a probe into Covid's origins, with ...
China says backs talks on IP waiver for Covid vaccines
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
The World Trade Organization has for months faced calls to temporarily remove patent protections on coronavirus vaccines, in a bid to get the drugs to poorer co...
Western powers urge China to end repression of Uyghurs
May 12, 2021 (AFP)
Rights groups say up to one million Uyghurs and people from other mostly Muslim groups are detained in internment camps in the northwest Xinjiang region of Chin...
China donates vaccine doses to Senegal and Bangladesh
May 12, 2021 (AFP)
In a tweet on Tuesday, Senegalese President Macky Sall said that China was going to deliver 300,000 vaccine doses, as well as 308,000 syringes. "I appreciate th...
Hong Kong scraps mandatory vaccines for foreign domestic workers
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
But authorities ordered all foreign helpers to undergo another round of mandatory testing, triggering renewed criticism from the Philippines. Health officials p...
Novavax delays Covid vaccine authorization request
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
The company now hopes to file for authorization in the US and Europe in the third quarter of 2021, it said in a statement, sending shares tumbling 12 percent. N...
The French tech whiz bringing Covid data to the masses
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
"I would never have imagined all the innovations, the creativity, that have their source in these data," Rozier told AFP. His Covidtracker.fr site and its sibli...
Honduras says El Salvador will help it get Chinese vaccines
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
Honduras is one of 15 countries to maintain an official relationship with Taiwan, which Beijing considers a rebel province of China. El Salvador in 2018 switche...
Virus deaths top 4,000 in India as WHO green-lights Chinese vaccine
May 08, 2021 (AFP)
And while many Western countries have started easing restrictions thanks to rapid vaccinations, the head of the World Health Organization warned that more count...
Dust storms and valley fever in the American West
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
George Mason University's Daniel Tong, one of the first scientists to discover the link between dust storms and Valley fever, leads a NASA-funded team to track ...
WHO approves Chinese Covid vaccine as India logs new virus record
May 07, 2021 (AFP)
And while many Western countries are starting to reopen as vaccinations gain pace, authorities in Tokyo and other parts of Japan extended virus states of emerge...
Brazil's Bolsonaro links pandemic to 'germ warfare'
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
"It's a new virus. Nobody knows whether it was born in a laboratory or because a human ate some animal they shouldn't have," said the far-right leader. "But the...
EMA opens review of China's Sinovac coronavirus jab
May 04, 2021 (AFP)
Made by Sinovac's Beijing-based Life Sciences unit, the vaccine by the Chinese biotech firm is the second shot developed outside the West after Russia's Sputnik...
Chinese tourists out in force as virus fears recede
May 04, 2021 (AFP)
Beijing's historic alleyways were packed with camera-wielding visitors Tuesday, while a bride dressed in red tulle took wedding photos with her groom outside th...
India infections top 20 million but numbers offer slight hope
May 04, 2021 (AFP)
The South Asian nation's plight is in stark contrast to Europe and the United States, where mass vaccinations have allowed the easing of many coronavirus restri...
Philippines' Duterte gets Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccine
May 03, 2021 (AFP)
Officials said Duterte was given the vaccine made by China's Sinopharm -- the same one secretly administered to members of his security team last year before an...
EU slams 'manipulation' of vaccine info by China, Russia
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
"The so-called 'vaccine diplomacy' follows a zero-sum game logic" that seeks to "undermine trust in Western-made vaccines, EU institutions and Western/European ...
HIV self-test prices to be slashed in half in 135 countries
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
The international health agency said it had closed a deal with US-based global healthcare company Viatris that will see blood-based HIV self-tests made availabl...
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