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Erdogan gets jab as Turkey unrolls Chinese vaccine
Jan 13, 2021 (AFP)
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...
Chinese coronavirus vaccine shows 50% efficacy in Brazil
Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)
Coronavac has been given to frontline health care workers in close contact with coronavirus patients. The Butantan Institute repeated its claim from last week t...
China places 5 million more under lockdown to stamp out virus cluster
Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)
The country had largely curbed the spread of the coronavirus, which first emerged in Wuhan in late 2019, with small outbreaks swiftly snuffed out using mass tes...
WHO experts to arrive in Wuhan for delayed virus probe
Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)
The ten scientists will investigate the origins of the new virus in a politically fraught mission that comes more than a year after the pandemic began and after...
WHO warns coronavirus herd immunity unlikely this year
Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)
Infections numbers are surging around the world, especially in Europe where nations have been forced to ramp up virus restrictions even as vaccines are rolled o...
Detecting COVID-19 antibodies in 10-12 seconds
Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)
The results were published this week in the journal Advanced Materials. Carnegie Mellon's collaborators included the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and the UPM...
WHO says China mission not playing blame game
Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)
WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said the delayed mission -- finally given the green light by Beijing -- was about science, not politics. Ten international...
Vaccination efforts boosted, WHO to probe Covid origins in China
Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)
As countries across the globe looked forward to vaccines finally allowing a return to normality in the months ahead, WHO experts were also focusing on Covid-19'...
A year after first death in China, coronavirus source still a puzzle
Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)
January 11 marks the anniversary of China confirming its first death from Covid-19, a 61-year-old man who was a regular at the now-notorious Wuhan wet market. N...
UK helps raise $1 billion in global vaccine donations
Jan 10, 2021 (AFP)
The UK said, in addition, it has committed 548 million to the COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC), after matching with 1 every $4 pledged by other donors. Can...
China tightens virus restrictions on new cluster ahead of Lunar New Year
Jan 09, 2021 (AFP)
China has largely brought its domestic outbreak under control after the coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan in late 2019 but a spike in Hebei province, bordering...
Europe bulk buys vaccines as WHO urges rich countries to share
Jan 08, 2021 (AFP)
The pandemic has already killed 1.9 million people out of 88 million infections and is picking up speed, with 14 percent more cases reported globally per day th...
UK rejects Australian, Belgian attacks on vaccine rollout
Jan 06, 2021 (AFP)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said health authorities were clear that approvals of two vaccines followed rigorous trials. "No corners have been cut w...
Beijing's crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong
Jan 06, 2021 (AFP)
In the latest salvo, about 50 opposition figures were arrested on Wednesday under a new national security law on charges of "subversion" -- by far the largest o...
China moves to stamp out virus outbreak in city of 11 million
Jan 06, 2021 (AFP)
Ten major highways leading into the city of Shijiazhuang, around 300 kilometres (200 miles) south of Beijing, have been closed and a bus terminus was closed in ...
WHO virus mission to China in disarray as entry denied
Jan 06, 2021 (AFP)
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was "very disappointed" with the last-minute bar on entry, in a rare castigation of Beijing from the UN body. A 10-...
China rushes to stamp out virus outbreak in city of 11 million
Jan 06, 2021 (AFP)
Ten major highways leading into the city of Shijiazhuang, around 300 kilometres (200 miles) south of Beijing, have been closed and a bus terminus was also shut ...
Impasse over WHO virus mission 'not just a visa issue': China
Jan 06, 2021 (AFP)
A year after the outbreak started, international health experts were expected to arrive in China this week for a highly politicised visit to explore the beginni...
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