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Bodies pile up as Covid overwhelms India
Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)
While rising vaccinations in the United States have allowed the country that was once the worst hit by coronavirus to relax its mask-wearing in some locations, ...
Pandemic a shot in the arm for anti-vaccine movement
Apr 24, 2021 (AFP)
But while the "anti-vax" camp has long understood the importance of the information battle, says science historian Laurent-Henri Vignaud, the health authorities...
India's death toll hits new record as Covid 'tsunami' worsens
Apr 24, 2021 (AFP)
Twenty patients died in one night at one New Delhi hospital suffering from oxygen shortages, medical officials said. A Delhi court said that the new pandemic wa...
WHO seeks next steps in Covid origins probe
Apr 22, 2021 (AFP)
Determining how the virus that causes Covid-19 first began spreading among humans is seen as vital to preventing future outbreaks. But a long-delayed report, dr...
Sweat sensor could warn of impending COVID-19 cytokine storm
Apr 16, 2021 (UPI)
Cytokine storms feature a surge of pro-inflammatory immune proteins. They can be triggered by a variety of infections, including COVID-19 and the flu. Studies h...
China's Coronavac 80% effective at preventing Covid deaths: Chile results
Apr 16, 2021 (AFP)
"These figures should convey peace of mind to the country," Health Minister Enrique Paris told journalists as he announced the outcome of two months' of vaccina...
COVID-19 subvariant Omicron XE emerges in Australia
Apr 15, 2021 (UPI)
New South Wales health authorities said that the first reported case was confirmed when a traveler returned from overseas last week. XE is a combination of prev...
New Zealand trials 'early warning' virus app at border
Apr 15, 2021 (AFP)
The app, "elarm", connects to wearable devices such as fitness trackers and smart watches, using artificial intelligence to check variables such as heart rate a...
China gives 200,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to Cameroon
Apr 11, 2021 (AFP)
The vaccine will be used in the first phase of the central African country's inoculation campaign. Health Minister Malachie Manaouda urged Cameroonians to get t...
China mulls mixing vaccines to improve efficacy of jabs
Apr 11, 2021 (AFP)
Authorities have to "consider ways to solve the issue that efficacy rates of existing vaccines are not high", Chinese media outlet The Paper reported, citing Ga...
DoD to prioritize overseas personnel in COVID-19 vaccine distribution
Apr 08, 2021 (UPI)
Army Lt. Gen. Ronald J. Place, director of the Defense Health Agency, told reporters Thursday that deployed personnel are being prioritized due to limited avail...
China weighs carrots and sticks in push to vaccinate millions
Apr 08, 2021 (AFP)
The country has administered around 140 million doses -- most people will require two shots -- since vaccinations began last year and aims to fully inoculate 40...
Scientists make breakthrough in malaria infection study of humans, apes
Apr 06, 2021 (UPI)
A report published in the peer-reviewed Nature Communications journal explains the origins of the parasite Plasmodium malariae, or P. malariae. Before evolving ...
Hong Kong bar owners in 'hunger strike' over virus closures
Apr 05, 2021 (AFP)
The four-day protest started on the pavement outside the Hong Kong government's headquarters on Sunday -- the one-year anniversary of when authorities first ord...
Uzbekistan begins jab drive with AstraZeneca, Chinese vaccine
Apr 01, 2021 (AFP)
Russian, Western and Chinese vaccines are all in play in ex-Soviet Central Asia, with Uzbekistan's neighbour Kazakhstan producing and distributing Russia's Sput...
China slams Covid-19 probe critics as Europe reels from surges
Mar 31, 2021 (AFP)
WHO-backed experts had judged it "extremely unlikely" that the virus was leaked from a Chinese lab after a politically sensitive mission to the ground-zero city...
WHO experts give nod to China jabs, boosting global vaccine drive
Mar 31, 2021 (AFP)
Fewer than 600 million jabs have been given out across the world, three months after vaccination programmes began in earnest in Western countries and leaders ha...
WHO chief toughens tone on China with lab probe call
Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)
The director-general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also rebuked China for sitting on key data. The theory that the new coronavirus...
Palestinians get 100,000 Chinese Covid vaccine doses
Mar 29, 2021 (AFP)
The PA's vaccination campaign was launched this month after the delivery of thousands of vaccines through the UN's Covax programme for poorer nations. The Pales...
The Wuhan lab at the heart of the 'extremely unlikely' leak theory
Mar 29, 2021 (AFP)
And a WHO report -- seen on Monday by AFP before its official release -- found that Covid-19 was most probably first passed to humans from a bat through an inte...
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