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WHO chief says all Covid origins hypotheses still open
Feb 12, 2021 (AFP)
The mission to Wuhan, where the first cases were spotted, failed to identify the source of the virus but poured cold water on the theory that it leaked from a v...
China donates 100,000 Covid vaccines to Equatorial Guinea
Feb 11, 2021 (AFP)
The vaccines were ceremonially handed over at Malabo airport on Wednesday to Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the son of head of state Teodoro Obian...
Mexico approves Chinese Covid vaccines CanSino and CoronaVac
Feb 11, 2021 (AFP)
The approval was announced by deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell as Mexico struggles to manage the pandemic. "I have given the authorization for emergency...
WHO expert slams US pandemic intel as curbs tightened in Europe
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to seek an extension of strict virus curbs, as the European Commission chief addressed the stumbling vaccination rollout...
Germany toughens China travel warning over 'invasive' Covid tests
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
In its latest travel advisory update, the foreign ministry said that the stringent measures were imposed on "people cured of Covid-19", as well as others who te...
Covid origins still a mystery as WHO-China probe ends
Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)
It remains unclear which species first transmitted Covid-19 to humans, said Liang Wannian, who headed up the Chinese contingent of an inquiry carried out jointl...
WHO team probing Covid origins in China to brief media
Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)
"The international team working to understand the origins of the Covid-19 virus is completing its four weeks' stay in Wuhan, China and together with their Chine...
Model shows how air conditioning influences COVID-19 transmission
Feb 09, 2021 (UPI)
In a study published Tuesday in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers used sophisticated computer simulations to study how cold air from air conditioning i...
Facebook ramps up effort to curb vaccine hoaxes
Feb 08, 2021 (AFP)
The move includes banning groups which repeatedly spread misinformation and debunked claims about the virus and vaccines in general. The leading social network ...
China delivers 600,000 vaccine doses to ally Cambodia
Feb 07, 2021 (AFP)
Cambodian leader Hun Sen announced last month that China would donate one million doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the kingdom -- which will cover 500,000 pe...
Chinese social media tributes mark anniversary of whistleblower doctor's death
Feb 06, 2021 (AFP)
Li, one of a group of doctors in Wuhan who shared posts on social media warning of a SARS-like virus spreading in the central city in December 2019, was reprima...
COVID-19 pandemic's economic shock hit less-developed countries hardest
Feb 05, 2021 (UPI)
To account for the scope of economic shockwaves triggered by the pandemic, researchers conducted several thousand phone surveys in Burkina Faso, Colombia, Ghana...
Hungary says first Chinese jabs can be given this month
Feb 05, 2021 (AFP)
Hungary broke ranks with the EU last month by becoming the first bloc member to approve and order both Sinopharm and Russia's Sputnik V jab, in quantities of fi...
Macron warns of risks of Chinese vaccines
Feb 04, 2021 (AFP)
Speaking to the Atlantic Council think-tank, Macron conceded that China's early "diplomatic successes" in distributing vaccines to other countries could be seen...
Experts discussed virus lab theory with Chinese scientists: WHO leader
Feb 04, 2021 (AFP)
The talks covered famous claims widely reported in global media, Peter Ben Embarek said in an interview a day after he and his WHO team visited the lab. While h...
Virus team visits China lab as poorer nations get vaccine boost
Feb 03, 2021 (AFP)
The World Health Organization-backed Covax scheme said it would roll out tens of millions of doses to lower income countries in the next few months, with India ...
China suspends most foreign travel from Canada
Jan 31, 2021 (AFP)
"In view of the current Covid-19 situation and the need of epidemic prevention and control... all foreign nationals who hold valid Chinese residence permits for...
WHO mission at ground-zero China market as nations tighten virus curbs
Jan 31, 2021 (AFP)
France's borders were to close at midnight to non-European countries, a day after Germany imposed a ban on most travellers from nations hit by new, more contagi...
Pentagon pauses plan to give Covid vaccine to Guantanamo detainees
Jan 30, 2021 (AFP)
"No Guantanamo detainees have been vaccinated," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby tweeted. "We're pausing the plan to move forward, as we review force protection pr...
Wuhan neighbourhood banishes memory of lockdown death
Jan 30, 2021 (AFP)
The grim scene, captured a year ago by AFP, was around the corner from a hospital in the Chinese metropolis -- now known as the pandemic's "ground zero". But th...
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