One of India’s leading medical experts, Dr. Randeep Guleria, director of the New Delhi-based All India Medical Sciences Institute (AIIMS), has advised caution on ‘Sputnik V,’ the coronavirus vaccine that Russia has given regulatory approval. Talking to India Today TV, Dr Randeep Guleria said before using the vaccine, it needs…
South Africa is approaching 500,000 confirmed cases, but not at peak
Saturday, South Africa exceeded 500,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, accounting for more than 50 percent of all recorded coronavirus infections in 54 countries in Africa. Saturday night, Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize reported 10,107 new cases taking the country’s overall total to 503,290, including 8,153 deaths. According to a survey by Johns…
With Chinese aid, Hong Kong offers people free universal Covid Testing
On Friday, Hong Kong’s leader said China should help the authorities give residents free coronavirus tests as infections continue to grow in a finance hub where Beijing’s deep mistrust has become ingrained. Initially a poster child for the fight against coronavirus, Hong Kong saw a third wave brought in by…
Taiwan informs the official China visiting the United States to try to turn it into next Hong Kong
Taiwan is facing an increasingly difficult situation as China is forcing the democratic island to accept conditions that would turn it into the next Hong Kong, its top diplomat told US Secretary of Health Alex Azar on Tuesday. Azar arrived as the highest-level US official to visit Taiwan on Sunday…
Coronavirus epicenter Wuhan is back to normal as people return to social activity
Fans dancing at a festival of electronic music, long queues at breakfast stands, gridlocked traffic — these days the scenes in coronavirus ground zero Wuhan would have been unimaginable in January. The recovery of the central Chinese town after a 76-day lockdown in April was lifted has brought life back…
Australian police warn Chinese students of ‘virtual kidnap’ scam
Australian police have warned Chinese officials and universities about a spurt in “internet kidnapping” scams that would compel foreign students to falsify their own abductions and trick families overseas into paying ransoms. As friction has risen between Australia and China over trade, human rights and state-linked hacking allegations, police said…
With Chinese help, Hong Kong offers citizens free universal Covid testing.
On Friday, Hong Kong’s leader said China will be helping authorities give residents free coronavirus tests as infections continue to grow in a finance hub where Beijing’s deep mistrust has become ingrained. Initially a poster child for the fight against coronavirus, Hong Kong saw a third wave brought in by…
University of Washington predicts 300,000 US coronavirus deaths
Nearly 300,000 Americans could be dead from Covid-19 by Dec. 1—Thursday, health experts at the University of Washington estimated that 70,000 lives could be saved if people were scrupulous about wearing masks. The latest forecasts from the widely-quoted Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) University came as White House…
Coronavirus talks on the brink of collapse, the sides are still ‘far apart’
Washington talks about critical Covid-19 rescue money are on the verge of failure after a marathon meeting in the Capitol on Thursday night created a flood of recriminations but little progress on the key issues faced by negotiators. Mnuchin and Chief of Staff of the White House Mark Meadows said…
90 percent of Covid-19 patients recovered from lung damage in Wuhan.
Beijing, Aug 5 (PTI) Ninety per cent of a study group of coronavirus-recovered patients in a prominent hospital in China’s Wuhan City, where a pandemic broke out, reported lung damage and five per cent reported quarantine again after positive virus testing, according to a media report on Wednesday. Since April,…