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Shanghai neighbourhood evacuated after three virus cases
Jan 21, 2021 (AFP)
Officials did not say how many people were being moved out of the area in central Shanghai as they ramped up testing to stamp out the small outbreak, the latest...
China to donate 500,000 Covid-19 vaccines to Pakistan
Jan 21, 2021 (AFP)
It comes as the number of coronavirus cases surged to 527,146 in Pakistan, with over 11,000 deaths since the virus was first detected in February last year. "Pa...
Partial lockdown in Beijing as UK virus variant detected
Jan 20, 2021 (AFP)
China has lauded its response to the pandemic, which emerged in the central city of Wuhan just over a year ago but has been broadly brought to heel, officially ...
Chile approves Chinese coronavirus vaccine
Jan 20, 2021 (AFP)
CoronaVac was developed by China's Sinovac firm and has been approved for emergency use in Brazil, China, Indonesia and Turkey. Chile joined the small club on W...
China latest of 60 nations with UK virus strain as US to rejoin WHO
Jan 20, 2021 (AFP)
Covid-19 has claimed more than two million lives globally since it was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan more than a year ago, while the total number ...
Chinese city rushes to build massive Covid-19 quarantine centre
Jan 19, 2021 (AFP)
China has largely brought the virus under control even as the rest of the world struggles with mounting deaths and overburdened hospitals. But a spate of small,...
Serbia starts vaccination with Chinese-made Sinopharm
Jan 19, 2021 (AFP)
"It is the only way to return to normal life," said Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar, the first who received the vaccine. "These are all very safe vaccines," Lon...
Scientists can detect new COVID-19 variants by analyzing wastewater
Jan 19, 2021 (UPI)
In Britain, scientists have been regularly sequencing the DNA of hundreds of COVID-19 samples on a weekly basis. Since Britain's Covid-19 Genomics Consortium wa...
China locks down another three million after travelling salesman spreads virus
Jan 18, 2021 (AFP)
While China has largely brought the virus under control, a sharp rise in cases in the past few weeks has prompted fresh lockdowns, travel restrictions and multi...
WHO, China could have acted faster on pandemic: experts
Jan 18, 2021 (AFP)
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said its evaluation of the start of the crisis in China "suggests that there was potential for earl...
Philippines, Cambodia, Serbia in line for China's Covid-19 vaccines
Jan 16, 2021 (AFP)
President Rodrigo Duterte's administration is scrambling to lock in supplies of Covid-19 vaccines for the country's 110 million people, after being criticised f...
India starts huge vaccine drive as global virus deaths top 2 million
Jan 16, 2021 (AFP)
The World Health Organization has called for accelerating vaccine rollouts worldwide as well as ramping up efforts to study the sequencing of the virus, which h...
Pompeo pushes new claim of China covering up Covid origin
Jan 16, 2021 (AFP)
The top US diplomat in a statement urged the World Health Organization team that landed Thursday in Wuhan, where Covid-19 was first detected, to "press the gove...
China puts 20,000 villagers in central quarantine over virus risk
Jan 15, 2021 (AFP)
The country had largely brought the virus under control after strict measures including mass testing and travel restrictions. But recent weeks have seen numbers...
Tech, health firms team up on digital vaccination certificates
Jan 14, 2021 (AFP)
The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) includes the Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce. The companies said they were working on a way to get dig...
WHO team arrives in Wuhan for virus investigation
Jan 14, 2021 (AFP)
The international team of 13 scientists landed for their much-delayed mission, met by Chinese officials in hazmat suits and given throat swabs on arrival, and w...
Zapping Covid: Tech sector takes aim at virus with new gadgetry
Jan 14, 2021 (AFP)
The health crisis which forced this week's 2021 Consumer Electronics Show online has also spawned innovations for fighting the pandemic. Drone maker Draganfly s...
China logs first virus death in 8 months as WHO huddles on new strains
Jan 14, 2021 (AFP)
The gathering in Geneva of the World Health Organization's emergency committee comes as their colleagues landed in Wuhan for a long-delayed mission to find the ...
US Covid-19 deaths hit daily record as China rushes to contain outbreaks
Jan 13, 2021 (AFP)
Global infections have soared past 91 million, and the spikes have forced governments around the world to reimpose restrictions such as unpopular and economical...
Turkey approves China's Sinovac jab, Senegal in talks buy Sinopharm vaccine
Jan 13, 2021 (AFP)
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca rolled up his sleeve and received the first shot of CoronaVac after announcing plans to start administering it nationally on Thur...
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