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Beijing bars arrivals from UK, Belgium due to second Covid-19 waves

Nov 05, 2020 (AFP)

Covid-19 first emerged in central China late last year, but Beijing has largely brought its own outbreak under control through tight travel restrictions and str...

U.S. Forces Korea reports 10 new COVID-19 cases

Nov 05, 2020 (UPI)

According to USFK, the individuals who tested positive include five service members and five dependents who arrived on commercial or military flights. Half of t...

Europe took centre-stage in global spread of the coronavirus, says new research

Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)

The group's findings, recently published in a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Microorganisms, confirm that the virus originated in China and most lik...

Canada reports rare strain of swine flu found in a human

Nov 04, 2020 (AFP)

The case, detected in the western province of Alberta in mid-October, appears to be isolated "and there is no increased risk to Albertans at this time," local h...

Coronavirus mutation may have made it more contagious

Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)

The paper shows "the virus is mutating due to a combination of neutral drift - which just means random genetic changes that don't help or hurt the virus - and p...

First international, Chinese expert meeting on virus origin: WHO

Oct 30, 2020 (AFP)

The WHO has for months been working to send a team of international experts, including epidemiologists and animal health specialists, to China to help probe the...

Singapore allows visitors from mainland China, parts of Australia

Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)

Visitors will be required to take a virus test upon arriving in Singapore and will not need to quarantine if they record a negative result when the new rules ta...

'Made-in-Gaza' device fights coronavirus spread

Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)

Spraying hand sanitiser while taking the person's temperature, the two-metre (around 6.6-foot) high device offers an all-in-one disinfection experience. If the ...

Nature loss means deadlier future pandemics, UN warns

Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)

Warning that there are up to 850,000 viruses which, like the novel coronavirus, exist in animals and may be able to infect people, the panel known as IPBES said...

Longer-lingering droplets are less efficient carriers of COVID-19 virus

Oct 27, 2020 (UPI)

To better understand the behavior and virus-carrying potential of different types of aerosol droplets, researchers had volunteers breathe, speak and cough into ...

Giving up on virus control 'dangerous': WHO chief

Oct 26, 2020 (AFP)

"We must not give up," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing. He acknowledged that after months of battling the new coronavirus, which has claimed ...

More mass testing in China after 137 virus cases in Xinjiang

Oct 25, 2020 (AFP)

Mass testing began Saturday evening to cover 4.75 million residents in and around Kashgar, Xinjiang province, after a 17-year-old garment factory worker tested ...

'Trench warfare' in Liege, Europe's new virus front

Oct 23, 2020 (AFP)

It is the second time that Belgium, a small EU country of 11.5 million people, has ended up as one of the hardest hit by the global pandemic. It has already see...

Bolsonaro shoots down plan to buy Chinese vaccine

Oct 21, 2020 (AFP)

"The Brazilian people will not be anyone's guinea pig... That is why I have decided not to purchase this vaccine," the far-right leader wrote on Facebook. Bolso...

Brazil embraces Chinese Covid vaccine after row

Oct 21, 2020 (AFP)

Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said the federal government had reached a deal with Sao Paulo state, which is helping test and produce the vaccine, to buy 46 m...

Translation tools, air purifiers: face masks go high-tech

Oct 21, 2020 (AFP)

As masks become the norm worldwide, tech companies and researchers are rolling out weird and wonderful models to both guard against infection and cash in on a g...

Europe tightens virus curbs as global cases top 40 million

Oct 19, 2020 (AFP)

The latest global milestone came just hours after the number of people who have died from Covid-19 passed 250,000 in Europe, according to an AFP tally, as the p...

As US battles Covid-19, flu shot misinfo spreads

Oct 17, 2020 (AFP)

Misinformation on social media, particularly that a flu shot will increase the risk of contracting the coronavirus or cause you to test positive for Covid-19 --...

Czech army builds field hospital to combat virus surge

Oct 16, 2020 (AFP)

The country of 10.7 million people is faring worst in the 28-member bloc in terms of holding back the disease, according to the latest ranking by European Centr...

Sixty dollar experimental vaccine rolled out in east Chinese city

Oct 16, 2020 (AFP)

Officials in Jiaxing city said Thursday residents aged between 18 and 59 with "urgent needs" can seek consultations at clinics for a Sinovac Biotech vaccine tha...