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Governments and vaccine producers are grappling with a new development in the pandemic more research shows there are thousands of variants of the virus around the world. It is emerging after new variants were identified in South Africa, then surfaced in UK and a few other countries. Millions of people…

China is ramping up efforts to neutralize the coronavirus as new outbreaks challenge its already stringent pandemic strategy, with another weapon added to an arsenal of border curbs, mass testing and hard lockdowns: anal swabs. While there’s no nationwide policy on use of the technique, some residents in China’s northern…

As the international scramble for Covid-19 vaccines intensifies Chinese and Russian manufacturers have found a growing list of foreign buyers despite lingering concerns over incomplete trial data and the rigour of domestic approval processes. Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology has agreed to sell its Sputnik V vaccine…

President Biden is preparing to reverse a Trump administration policy that prohibits U.S. funding for nongovernmental groups that provide or refer patients for abortions — the first of several moves reproductive rights advocates are hoping to see from the Biden administration. In prepared remarks released by the White House on…

China’s Peace and Development fund has translated into a stronger UN commitment to the goals and activities of China It was one of those forgettably historic moments at the United Nations. The year was 2015, the UN’s 70th anniversary, and China’s President Xi Jinping was in New York, speaking in…

BRUSSELS – European governments are working with the United States on plans to overhaul the World Health Organization, a top health official for a European country said, signaling that Europe shares some of the concerns that led Washington to say it would quit. The European health official, who spoke on…

The African Union has taken a swipe at the United States in reaction to incident in which a black man was killed by Police caught on video – prompting widespread anger across America. On Monday, a white officer with the Minneapolis Police Department, State of Minnesota, was recorded in a…