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WHO virus probe team visits China propaganda exhibit, hospital in Wuhan
Jan 30, 2021 (AFP)
Details of the trip have been scant so far, with the media kept at arm's length and information on the itinerary dribbling out via tweets from the World Health ...
Pandemic slows across world
Jan 29, 2021 (AFP)
Here is the state of play worldwide: - Slowdown worldwide - The pace of the pandemic slackened for the second week in a row, with 11 percent fewer new cases per...
Bird flu behind mass pelican deaths in Senegal
Jan 29, 2021 (AFP)
The birds -- 740 juveniles and 10 adults -- were discovered in the Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary on January 23, and the environment ministry said on Wednesday ...
Hungary first in EU to approve Chinese Covid vaccine
Jan 29, 2021 (AFP)
"Today the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYEI) gave its approval for the Sinopharm vaccine," Chief Medical Officer Cecilia Muller told a briefi...
Virus origin probe set to begin as China and US trade barbs
Jan 28, 2021 (AFP)
The investigators are in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus emerged more than a year ago before going on to infect more than 100 million and kill more than...
Europe's vaccine row worsens as WHO probe set to begin in China
Jan 28, 2021 (AFP)
With countries across the world again tightening restrictions after months of stop-and-start closures to curb virus infections, the economic toll so far was com...
Hong Kong turns to 'ambush lockdowns' to fight virus
Jan 27, 2021 (AFP)
Police cordoned off a row of densely packed tenement buildings in the Yau Ma Tei area overnight on Tuesday through to Wednesday morning to conduct mandatory tes...
Wuhan next-of-kin say China silencing them as WHO visits
Jan 27, 2021 (AFP)
Scores of relatives have banded together online in a shared quest for accountability from Wuhan officials who they blame for mishandling the outbreak that tore ...
W.House demands 'robust' intl. probe into Covid-19 origins
Jan 27, 2021 (AFP)
Speaking to reporters, she said it was "imperative we get to the bottom" of how the virus appeared and spread worldwide. Psaki highlighted "great concern" over ...
Norway cancels manoeuvres with NATO allies over virus fears
Jan 26, 2021 (AFP)
The Joint Viking manoeuvres were to involve 10,000 soldiers, including 3,400 from the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Germany. "Norway, along with t...
In confined spaces, air purifiers may actually aid the spread of COVID-19
Jan 26, 2021 (UPI)
Since the beginning of the global pandemic, health officials have warned of the dangers of viral transmission in confined spaces where air circulation is limite...
Colombian defense minister dies of Covid-19 complications
Jan 26, 2021 (AFP)
Trujillo is the highest-ranking Colombian official and one of nearly a dozen sitting cabinet ministers worldwide to have succumbed to the virus that has killed ...
Google offers facilities for US vaccination sites
Jan 25, 2021 (AFP)
Chief executive Sundar Pichai made the announcement as part of a $150 million initiative to promote vaccine education and equitable access. "To help with vaccin...
Borders tightened as coronavirus curfew fury spills over
Jan 25, 2021 (AFP)
The United States was set to join France, Israel and Sweden in pulling up the drawbridge to certain arrivals, with special concern about new strains of the path...
Brazil's late and rocky start on vaccinations fuels public ire
Jan 24, 2021 (AFP)
The campaign only began on Monday in the country of 212 million, weeks after the United States and European countries launched their vaccination programs. The l...
Wuhan marks a year since lockdown as Biden warns of 600,000 dead
Jan 23, 2021 (AFP)
Traffic hummed, sidewalks bustled, and citizens packed parks and public transport in Wuhan, underscoring the scale of the recovery in the metropolis of 11 milli...
Hong Kong orders thousands to stay home in two-day virus lockdown
Jan 23, 2021 (AFP)
The order bans about 10,000 people living inside multiple housing blocks within the neighbourhood of Jordan from leaving their apartments until all those in the...
In Spain, hospitals pay price for Christmas festivities
Jan 22, 2021 (AFP)
Electronic bleeps alert them to the multiple needs of patients in their care, most of whom are intubated and unconscious. At one bed, several staff are turning ...
Beijing launches mass testing to stem virus outbreak
Jan 22, 2021 (AFP)
Long queues snaked through the Chinese capital -- which reported 19 coronavirus cases in the past week -- as the mass testing campaign got under way in Dongchen...
Too early to draw Covid origin conclusions: WHO
Jan 22, 2021 (AFP)
A team of WHO experts arrived in Wuhan on January 14 to start probing the origins of the deadly coronavirus, more than a year after the first cases were detecte...
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