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Inventor of Israel's Iron Dome seeks coronavirus 'game-changer'
Jul 12, 2020 (AFP)
With the nation facing surging coronavirus cases amid a pandemic that has triggered unprecedented economic hardship, Gold is trying to replicate his Iron Dome b...
Hong Kong to shut all schools after virus cases spike
Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)
The government has ordered all schools to close from Monday, bringing forward the start of the summer holidays, Kevin Yeung said, after the city recorded an "ex...
Coronavirus can still be brought under control: WHO
Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the examples of Italy, Spain, South Korea and India's biggest slum showed that however bad an outbreak was, the virus ...
Kazakhstan denies China's claim of new deadly virus
Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)
In an alert for Chinese citizens posted on the embassy's website Thursday, Beijing warned of a disease with "a mortality rate far higher than COVID-19" -- an as...
China offers glimpse inside lab near Wuhan virus origin
Jul 09, 2020 (AFP)
President Donald Trump and other US figures have repeatedly suggested the virus could have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or even been deliberatel...
Experts pitch surveillance system to detect viruses before next pandemic
Jul 09, 2020 (UPI)
Evidence shows the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, came from bats that likely passed the virus onto another species before infecting humans, according t...
Beijing reports zero virus cases for first time since new outbreak
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
A total of 335 people have been infected since a cluster emerged at the city's massive Xinfadi wholesale market in early June. The news comes as millions of stu...
Australia locks down millions as US struggles to contain virus
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
While some countries are worried about second waves of infections, the worst-hit -- the United States -- was still "knee-deep" in its first, its top expert warn...
Russia urges against marmot hunt over plague fears
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
Russian public health authorities appealed to residents of the mountainous Tuva and Altai regions following last week's confirmation of two bubonic plague cases...
WHO monitoring China bubonic plague situation
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
A herdsman in China's northern Inner Mongolia region was confirmed at the weekend to have the bubonic plague. Two other cases were confirmed in Khovd province i...
HIV patient 'first in remission' without transplant
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
HIV affects tens of millions of people globally and while the disease is no longer the automatic death sentence it once was, patients need to take medication fo...
China steps up precautions after bubonic plague case
Jul 06, 2020 (AFP)
The man was in stable condition at a hospital in Bayannur, the city health commission said in a statement. The commission has forbidden the hunting and eating a...
WHO first alerted to virus by its own office; Beijing reports zero cases
Jul 04, 2020 (AFP)
The UN health body has been accused by US President Donald Trump of failing to provide the information needed to stem the pandemic and of being complacent towar...
Monkeys infected with novel coronavirus developed short-term immunity
Jul 02, 2020 (AFP)
While the monkeys displayed initial immunity, it's unclear how long such immunity will last in humans - it will be necessary to wait months, or even years, to k...
Number of COVID-19 cases among military service members doubled in June
Jul 02, 2020 (UPI)
As of Wednesday, 6,493 U.S. service members currently have the virus -- up from 2,807 on June 10. The number of cumulative cases listed on the departments's web...
China downplays potential new swine flu pandemic
Jul 01, 2020 (AFP)
The deadly COVID-19 pandemic, which has now infected more than 10 million people worldwide, first emerged in China and is thought to have originated in bats and...
Beijing lifts some lockdowns as virus cases drop
Jul 01, 2020 (AFP)
The Chinese capital had closed off dozens of residential compounds and carried out mass testing last month after hundreds of infections raised fears of a virus ...
Iraq says coronavirus deaths surpass 2,000
Jul 01, 2020 (AFP)
Health authorities announced there were now 51,524 cases of the COVID-19 disease in the country and that 2,050 people had died of the virus, while 26,267 people...
Post-COVID, more in West see China as major power
Jun 30, 2020 (AFP)
A survey of French, German and US opinion released by the German Marshall Fund of the United States found significant increases in perceptions of Chinese influe...
New swine flu found in China has pandemic potential
Jun 30, 2020 (AFP)
Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009. It possesses "all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to ...
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