– State media tries to reassure public that there are plentiful supplies of basic goods
– ‘It’s going to be a cold winter’, shopper says while loading up her rice, oil and other essential items
The report, “‘America Ranked First’?! The Truth about America’s Fight against COVID-19”, said the US has not only disrupted global efforts to fight the coronavirus, but also cast US citizens into a deepening “crisis”, with the country now facing a fourth wave of infections and a new high in confirmed cases.
LONDON – Interim analysis of Phase 3 clinical trial of the CoronaVac vaccine in more than 10,000 participants in Turkey suggests the efficacy of two doses of the vaccine is 83.5 percent against symptomatic cases of COVID-19, according to a study published on Thursday in The Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal.
China’s inactivated vaccines against COVID-19 are exceptionally agile at tackling emerging variants and domestic vaccine manufacturers are fully prepared to update their shots, health experts and drugmakers have said.
Several cities across China have recently started offering residents a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine in addition to the two-dose inactivated vaccines that were already widely used in the country’s vaccination drive.
The EMA did not provide a time frame for its final decision, but it said the process should ‘take less time than normal’
With India reeling from a sustained surge in COVID-19 deaths and infections, China has reaffirmed an offer of help to its neighbor.
China has begun inoculating foreigners in the country with COVID-19 vaccines.
BEIJING — China’s National Health Commission (NHC) has updated its rules on the diagnosis of COVID-19 cases, stating that diagnosis based on the presence of antibodies only applies to those who have not yet been vaccinated.
In an editorial published on Saturday, medical journal The Lancet reviewed China’s COVID-19 response strategy and discussed how China has managed to control the epidemic and what lessons the global scientific community can learn from China’s experiences.
D’après ces conclusions, qui n’ont pas encore été officiellement rendues publiques, l’hypothèse de la fuite du SARS-CoV-2 d’un laboratoire est « extrêmement improbable ».
La Chine va déployer des certificats de santé pour les voyageurs internationaux, qui indiqueront le statut vaccinal d’une personne ou les résultats de tests récents pour faciliter la circulation sûre et ordonnée du personnel, a annoncé le 7 mars Wang Yi conseiller d’État et ministre des Affaires étrangères chinois.
Early research shows that the inactivated COVID-19 vaccines produced by Sinopharm can provide protection against 10 mutated variants of SARS-CoV-2, including strains from the United Kingdom and South Africa, said Yu Qingming, Sinopharm’s board chairman and a deputy to the National People’s Congress.
China’s COVID-19 vaccines are effective against the two major variants of the novel coronavirus that have been imported, but sustained efforts are still needed to prevent other strains from entering, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Plusieurs pays d’Afrique, comme le Sénégal, l’Egypte, la Guinée Equatoriale ou le Zimbabwe, ont reçu des vaccins contre le Covid-19 de la Chine. Pékin veut renforcer son influence sur le continent.
