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Iraq inks preliminary deal for Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
Dec 22, 2020 (AFP)
The country has been among the hardest-hit in the Middle East, with more than 580,000 reported cases although numbers have dropped dramatically in recent weeks....
Hong Kong bans flights from Britain over new virus strain
Dec 21, 2020 (AFP)
"From midnight there will be no more passenger flights arriving in Hong Kong from the United Kingdom," health secretary Sophia Chan told reporters. Anyone arriv...
Study details smallpox epidemics in London over three centuries
Dec 21, 2020 (UPI)
Their data analysis, detailed Monday in the PLOS Biology, revealed links between several historical events and smallpox outbreaks, as well as the effects of var...
New virus restrictions threaten Hong Kong's last true junk boat
Dec 18, 2020 (AFP)
But the wooden ship has been docked after new measures to stem a fourth wave of the coronavirus were introduced earlier this month, threatening the city's last ...
Sailors with COVID-19 replaced aboard USS Essex
Dec 18, 2020 (UPI)
The amphibious assault ship left San Diego in early December with a contingent of U.S. Marines for an exercise, and returned on Monday. An unidentified sailor o...
China to start opening vaccination programme to general public
Dec 18, 2020 (AFP)
At least one million people have already received a jab in China after vaccine candidates were approved for "emergency use", but so far they have been limited t...
International team seeking Covid origin will go to Wuhan: WHO
Dec 18, 2020 (AFP)
Asked about the international mission, which WHO has been working for months to get to China, World Health Organization emergencies chief Michael Ryan told repo...
Defense Logistics Agency ready to ship COVID-19 vaccine overseas
Dec 17, 2020 (UPI)
According to the Pentagon, the DLA has been working with Operation Warp Speed and Defense Health Agency officials to develop a plan for delivering the vaccine a...
International team seeking Covid-19 origin to go to China in January: WHO
Dec 16, 2020 (AFP)
"I can confirm that this will take place in January," WHO spokesman Hedinn Halldorsson told AFP when asked about reports that the expert team would finally go t...
China's Fosun Pharma to import 100 million BioNTech vaccine doses
Dec 16, 2020 (AFP)
China has been rapidly developing its own Covid-19 vaccine candidates and ramping up production facilities, but local firms have also been partnering with forei...
European nations tighten virus curbs as Christmas surge fears grow
Dec 16, 2020 (AFP)
The tougher measures came as EU members agreed to start coronavirus vaccinations on the same day. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen told European d...
Pentagon chief receives Covid-19 vaccine
Dec 15, 2020 (AFP)
The acting defense secretary received the jab at Walter Reed military hospital near Washington, according to a video published by the Pentagon. "That's all?! Oh...
Brazil drug agency questions 'transparency' of China vaccine
Dec 15, 2020 (AFP)
In a statement, Anvisa warned against the "influence of issues related to geopolitics" in promoting vaccines. "The Chinese criteria applied to grant the authori...
AGU panel explores environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as observed from space
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers from several institutions presented their early results in a virtual press conference on Dec. 7 at the American Geophysical Union's 2020 fall meetin...
Health centre water crisis increasing virus risk: WHO
Dec 14, 2020 (AFP)
The lack of this basic amenity endangers patients and staff alike at such centres, the WHO said in a joint report with the UN children's agency UNICEF. The stud...
China coronavirus cases on Russia border spark lockdowns, tests
Dec 12, 2020 (AFP)
There was one new case each in Dongning and Suifenhe, which both sit on the country's border with Russia. In Dongning, a 40-year-old maintenance worker at a por...
China's 'vaccine diplomacy': A global charm offensive
Dec 10, 2020 (AFP)
The strategy carries multiple possible benefits: deflecting anger and criticism over China's early handling of the pandemic, raising the profile of its biotech ...
Uber backs vaccine priority for rideshare drivers
Dec 10, 2020 (AFP)
Vaccinated drivers will be able to provide transportation for health care workers and people getting shots, Khosrowshahi said in a letter to the governors of st...
Pentagon to prioritize its health workers when it gets COVID-19 vaccine
Dec 09, 2020 (UPI)
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Thomas McCaffery told reporters that residents and staff of military-run long-term care facilities, other esse...
Chinese Covid-19 vaccine maker gets major funding boost; Indonesia gets Chinese vaccine supply
Dec 07, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing has largely brought the virus under control, with only 281 active cases still receiving treatment, according to official figures. But it has promised to...
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