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There Are 4,000 Variants of COVID-19 Worldwide, and Questions Arising Whether Vaccines Will Work On All
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…
Read More »China Now Tests for COVID-19 Through The Anus
Residents of Dongcheng District in Beijing line up for Covid-19 testing on Jan. 22. China’s lockdowns are also getting tougher, rivaling the severity of curbs placed on Wuhan a year ago. Photographer: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images China is ramping up efforts to neutralize the coronavirus as new outbreaks challenge its already stringent…
Read More »Chinese and Russian Vaccines in High Demand Despite Having No WHO Approvals
Russian officials say 1.5m people worldwide have already received its Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine © Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images 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…
Read More »US to Repeal Trump’s Anti-abortion Rule on Foreign Aid and Join Covax Vaccine Scheme
President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) 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…
Read More »Buying Power: How China Co-opts the UN
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…
Read More »EU Working with US to Restructure WHO, Top Officials Reveal
(FromL) World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme Director Michael Ryan, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove attend a daily press briefing on COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO heardquaters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. – WHO Director-General…
Read More »African Union Slams “Discriminatory Practices” Against Blacks in America
A white officer with the Minneapolis Police Department, State of Minnesota, was recorded in a now viral video placing a knee on the neck of George Floyd. He died from the incident The African Union has taken a swipe at the United States in reaction to incident in which a…
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