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Going it alone on Covid-19 brings 'greater disaster': China foreign minister

Sep 28, 2020 (AFP)

Days after the United States and China lashed out at each other on UN platforms over the coronavirus outbreak, China's top diplomat Wang Yi told a forum in Beij...

Rebound and reflection in Wuhan as virus claims million lives

Sep 28, 2020 (AFP)

Pride at the city's resilience in the face of the calamity is tinged with sadness at the mounting death toll elsewhere. "One million people dead, maybe relative...

Texas on alert after brain-eating amoeba kills boy, 6

Sep 28, 2020 (AFP)

The child died on September 8 following an infection caused by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic organism that breeds in the warm, fresh water of lake...

Beijing passes law to protect medical whistleblowers

Sep 28, 2020 (AFP)

China's leaders suffered a rare wave of public outrage after ophthalmologist Li Wenliang died of the disease in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus first emer...

Trump says UN must 'hold China accountable' for Covid-19

Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)

In a recorded message played to the annual meeting of the UN, Trump accused Beijing of allowing the coronavirus to "leave China and infect the world." "The Unit...

Ai Weiwei's Covid lockdown film traces China's ruthless efficiency

Sep 18, 2020 (AFP)

Ai, a dissident who left China five years ago, directed and produced the film "Coronation" from Europe, where he now lives, using footage shot often in secret b...

China lab leak infects thousands with bacterial disease

Sep 18, 2020 (AFP)

Health officials in Lanzhou city said 3,245 people had contracted brucellosis, a disease often caused by close contact with infected animals or animal products ...

Chinese hackers 'stole data from Spanish vaccine labs': report

Sep 18, 2020 (AFP)

The report emerged as drug companies around the world race to produce an effective jab to counter a virus that has now killed more than 940,000 people and infec...

Wuhan next-of-kin accuse China of blocking Covid lawsuits

Sep 17, 2020 (AFP)

But they have had their lawsuits abruptly rejected, dozens of others face pressure from authorities not to file, and lawyers are being warned against helping th...

Warming climate to shift threat of West Nile virus in the U.S.

Sep 15, 2020 (UPI)

According to a new model, as the climate warms, West Nile virus transmission is likely to increase in some parts of the United States, while the threat dissipat...

China says Covid-19 vaccine could be ready for public by November

Sep 15, 2020 (AFP)

Chinese manufacturers have been bullish about development, with companies Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm even putting their vaccine candidates on display at a tr...

NASA funds eight new projects exploring connections between the environment and COVID-19

Sep 14, 2020 (SPX)

Kerner is among eight researchers recently awarded a rapid-turnaround project grant, which supports investigators as they explore how COVID-19 lockdown measures...

WHO delivers Europe death warning as infections hit new high

Sep 14, 2020 (AFP)

Israel is among the countries battling a new spike, announcing a three-week lockdown from Friday when people will not be allowed more than 500 metres from their...

Iraqis dig up Covid-19 dead to rebury in family graves

Sep 13, 2020 (AFP)

"Now he can finally be with our people, our family, in the old cemetery," 49-year-old Bahadli said, as relatives sobbed over the body, wrapped in a shroud. Afte...

Pandemic has led to 'infodemic' of scientific literature

Sep 11, 2020 (UPI)

To make sense of all the new information, and to ensure the most accurate and useful information isn't drowned out by less discerning research, the authors of a...

North Korea issues shoot-to-kill orders to prevent virus: US

Sep 11, 2020 (AFP)

The impoverished North -- whose crumbling health system would struggle to cope with a major virus outbreak -- has not confirmed a single case of the disease tha...

Brazil could launch Chinese Covid-19 vaccine this year: governor

Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)

Sao Paulo, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in hard-hit Brazil, is one of six states helping to test the so-called CoronaVac vaccine developed by Chine...

Varying degrees of success for coronavirus apps in Europe

Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)

Here is a round-up of the main European contact tracing initiatives and their varying degrees of success. - Germany: no cure-all - Launched in June, the German ...

China celebrates virus success as Europe suffers

Sep 08, 2020 (AFP)

The upbeat mood in Beijing comes as concerns grow about a resurgence of the virus across Europe, with France tightening restrictions, cases in Britain spiking a...

China passed 'extraordinary' virus test, says bullish Xi

Sep 08, 2020 (AFP)

The nation's propaganda machine has churned out praise for the Chinese government's Covid-19 response, reframing the public health crisis as an example of the a...