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Facing Covid and China, US leads billion-plus vaccine push in India

Mar 12, 2021 (AFP)

US President Joe Biden, who has vowed to reinvigorate alliances in the face of growing worries about China, met virtually with the three nations' prime minister...

QR codes, health passports: China's tech arsenal against a pandemic

Mar 11, 2021 (AFP)

Now the country where the coronavirus was first detected is launching a digital "health passport" for its 1.4 billion population which it hopes will eventually ...

Climate change could have direct consequences on malaria transmission in Africa

Mar 11, 2021 (SPX)

For several years there has been a heated debate on the impact of global warming on malaria incidence. It is believed that the largest effect could occur in the...

Serbia to start producing Chinese Sinopharm vaccine

Mar 11, 2021 (AFP)

Vucic announced that a deal concerning the construction of a "vaccine factory" will be signed in the next two weeks, and it will be built with support of China ...

Chinese vaccines reach Congo as polls approach

Mar 10, 2021 (AFP)

Donated Sinopharm vaccines "prove that China remains alongside developing countries to fight Covid-19 together," Chinese ambassador Ma Fulin told reporters at t...

World failing to take green Covid recovery path: UN

Mar 10, 2021 (AFP)

Although the unprecedented economic slowdown caused by Covid-19 saw greenhouse gas emissions fall dramatically in 2020, institutions from the UN to the Internat...

China mission members urge 'routine' virus origin probes

Mar 10, 2021 (AFP)

"Why don't we do this with every outbreak, as a routine?" asked Marion Koopmans, a Dutch virologist who was a member of the World Health Organization mission to...

China launches virus passport

Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)

The digital certificate, which shows a user's vaccination status and virus test results, is available for Chinese citizens via a programme on Chinese social med...

China pioneers 'virus passports' as EU gets Russia jab boost

Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)

While other nations like Brazil and Mexico are still struggling to get the pandemic under control, Chinese citizens can download the new certificates and use th...

Pentagon authorizes more personnel for U.S. COVID-19 vaccinations

Mar 08, 2021 (UPI)

The next deployment will involve two Type 1 teams, to Georgia and Ohio, Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement on Saturday. Over 2,200 mili...

Singapore Airlines to pilot digital Covid travel pass

Mar 08, 2021 (AFP)

The app, developed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), will store information on passengers' health, including whether they have had virus te...

Chinese urgency on Covid-19 goes missing in jabs drive

Mar 07, 2021 (AFP)

"I'd like to keep an eye out for any adverse effects first," said Shi, who like many Chinese seems happy to take a wait-and-see approach. Through aggressive loc...

Covid origins report due out week of March 15: WHO

Mar 05, 2021 (AFP)

The report was originally due to be published in two stages: an initial summary in February followed by the full text. However, they will both now be released a...

WHO scraps plan for interim report on Wuhan virus mission: WSJ

Mar 05, 2021 (AFP)

Wuhan is the city where the pandemic is believed to have originated in late 2019. The WHO team returned recently from its visit there saying it had no clear fin...

Space in response to COVID-19

Mar 04, 2021 (ESA)

In mid-2020, ESA, along with the European Commission, launched the 'Rapid Action Coronavirus Earth observation' dashboard in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Fake Covid-19 vaccines seized in South Africa, China: Interpol

Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)

The Lyon-based Interpol said 400 vials -- equivalent to around 2,400 doses -- containing the fake vaccine were found at a warehouse in Germiston outside Johanne...

Czechs launch mass testing to battle Covid surge

Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)

The government also enabled regions to call up private doctors and other medical staff to work in public Covid hospitals, many of which have reached capacity. "...

Iraq starts vaccinations with jabs gifted from China

Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)

The campaign was launched as Iraq battles a second wave of Covid-19 infections, with more than 4,600 new cases a day, and ahead of a three-day visit by Pope Fra...

Hard-hit Czech Republic turns to Russian jabs after EU delays

Feb 28, 2021 (AFP)

The EU member tops the world in new infections per 100,000 people over the last 14 days and is second only to neighbouring Slovakia in deaths, according to an A...

Chinese coronavirus jab brings relief, and concern in Hungary

Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)

The inoculations began Thursday as some Hungarian doctors fret that Sinopharm's Chinese maker has provided only minimal information on clinical trials of its va...