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Hong Kong and South Korea start coronavirus vaccination drives

Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)

South Korea plans to inoculate 70 percent of its population within seven months while Hong Kong aims to vaccinate all adults by the end of the year. Both places...

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...

Philippine soldiers ordered to get virus vaccine

Feb 25, 2021 (AFP)

Pressure is mounting on President Rodrigo Duterte's government to kickstart the delayed vaccine rollout, amid accusations its officials have bungled the procure...

China's CanSino, Sinopharm unit, seek approval for Covid vaccines

Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)

Sinopharm affiliate Wuhan Institute Of Biological Products said in a statement its vaccine's efficacy rate was 72.51 percent, while the overall efficacy for Can...

Hungary starts using Chinese vaccine in EU first

Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)

The country of 10 million has ordered around five million doses of the Chinese jab, and has already started inoculating its population with Russia's Sputnik V v...

HSBC ramps up Asia pivot as pandemic hammers profits

Feb 23, 2021 (AFP)

Reported profit after tax came in at $6.1 billion, which the bank blamed primarily on higher-than-expected credit losses and other bad debts. The results came a...

Philippines approves Chinese jab but health workers to miss out

Feb 22, 2021 (AFP)

CoronaVac is the third vaccine approved for emergency use in the country, but so far none have been delivered and President Rodrigo Duterte's government is unde...

Privacy faces risks in tech-infused post-Covid workplace

Feb 21, 2021 (AFP)

Temperature checks, distance monitors, digital "passports," wellness surveys and robotic cleaning and disinfection systems are being deployed in many workplaces...

Ebola strikes West Africa again: key questions and lessons from the past

Feb 19, 2021 (The Conversation)

But countries in the West African region are in a very different position seven years on. Liberia and Sierra Leone have already mobilised and activated their na...

BioNTech 'committed' to Taiwan; HK fast tracks China's Sinovac approval

Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)

Taiwanese health minister Chen Shih-chung said Wednesday that negotiations with the German firm to acquire five million Pfizer/BioNTech shots fell through in De...

Zimbabwe, Algeria begin vaccine roll-outs with Chinese jabs;

Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)

Constantino Chiwenga, wearing a rosary around his neck, received a dose of Sinopharm vaccine at a hospital in the capital Harare and urged citizens to register ...

Deep-freeze case could help transport vaccines in Africa

Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)

Johannesburg-based natural gas producer Renergen is developing an ultra-cold biologic transport freezer for the task as countries throughout Africa plan for rol...

Italy police probe middlemen in Chinese masks deal

Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)

The contracts, signed by the government's coronavirus crisis commissioner Domenico Arcuri with three Chinese consortiums, were for the supply of more than 800 m...

One-third of US military refusing Covid vaccine: Pentagon

Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)

Major General Jeff Taliaferro revealed the high refusal rate in Congressional hearing, as the US Defense Department continues to classify covid vaccines as opti...

Taiwan says 'political pressure' blocking coronavirus vaccine deal

Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)

Health minister Chen Shih-chung revealed during a radio interview that a crucial deal to acquire the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine had failed "at the final step" of n...

Lightning lockdowns curb virus in Melbourne, Auckland

Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)

Authorities said swift action in Melbourne and Auckland helped contain flare-ups of the highly contagious UK coronavirus variant, contrasting with the less rigo...

Zimbabwe gets first batch of Sinopharm jabs from China

Feb 15, 2021 (AFP)

Wrapped in white tarpaulin, the shipment of 200,000 doses, a donation from the Chinese government, arrived early Monday aboard the country's only working aircra...

Iraq detects new UK-based strain, reimposes partial lockdown

Feb 15, 2021 (AFP)

"Unfortunately, government labs showed genetic mutations in the Covid-19 strain, detecting the new fast-spreading strain in Iraq," Hassan al-Tamimi told reporte...

Guinea health chief calls Ebola outbreak 'epidemic', 7 cases confirmed

Feb 14, 2021 (AFP)

"Very early this morning, the Conakry laboratory confirmed the presence of the Ebola virus," Sakoba Keita said after an emergency meeting in the capital. Health...

US, WHO push China for data from early days of contagion

Feb 13, 2021 (AFP)

A team of World Health Organization experts and Chinese counterparts visited key sites around the city of Wuhan, where Covid cases were first detected, but said...