Author: Xinhua
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Equitable access to vaccines now the most urgent focus — WHO
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The most urgent focus now for the World Health Organization (WHO) is ensuring that all countries have access to vaccines on an equitable basis, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday.
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Foreigners see China’s victory against poverty on trip
HEFEI, Jan. 10 – As his conversation in a mountain village museum proceeded, all the familiar laughs that Zimbabwean youth Albert Mhangami saw during his trip flashed into his mind, warmly and inspiringly.
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Fauci accepts Biden’s offer to be his chief medical adviser
WASHINGTON – Anthony Fauci, a top US infectious disease expert, said on Friday that he has accepted President-elect Joe Biden's offer to be his chief medical adviser.
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Diego Maradona Jr. bids farewell to his father
Diego Maradona Jr., son of the late Argentine football great Diego Armando Maradona, bid an emotional farewell to his father on Friday, with a moving message on Instagram.
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17th China-ASEAN Expo to open in south China
The 17th China-ASEAN Expo scheduled from Nov. 27 to 30 in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, will hold a slew of online and offline activities.
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Global COVID-19 cases surpass 60 million: WHO
The number of COVID-19 cases reported worldwide has surpassed 60 million as of Thursday afternoon (17:38 GMT), reaching 60,074,174, with 1,416,292 coronavirus-related deaths, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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APEC economies commit to free, open trade, investment for economic recovery
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on Monday reiterated their commitment to pursuing free and open trade and investment as well as reinvigorating the efforts towards regional economic recovery and growth from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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6,620 brucella cases confirmed in NW China, compensation allocated
LANZHOU -- A total of 6,620 people have been confirmed antibody-positive for brucella since contaminated factory exhaust caused infections in 2019 in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, local authorities told a press conference on Thursday.
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US COVID-19 cases surpass 8 million
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 8 million on Friday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
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Global COVID-19 deaths surpass 1.1 million– Johns Hopkins University
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 1.1 million on Friday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
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Nigeria resumes yellow fever vaccination campaign amid COVID-19 outbreak
LAGOS, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria has resumed yellow fever vaccination with safety measures against COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Singapore researchers to find drugs for COVID-19 treatment by tapping AI
SINGAPORE, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A group of researchers in Singapore will tap their artificial intelligence (AI) platform to evaluate 12 locally available drugs to derive a combination of drugs that can be used to treat COVID-19, local media reported on Friday.
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Flood death toll rises to 18 in Cambodia as over 25,000 evacuated
PHNOM PENH, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Flash floods in Cambodia have so far left 18 people dead and forced the evacuation of 25,192 people, Seak Vichet, a spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said on Friday.
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Germany reports new record of 7,334 daily COVID-19 infections
BERLIN, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- New COVID-19 infections in Germany kept climbing and reached a new record with 7,334 cases within one day, bringing the total number to 348,557, the national disease control agency Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Friday.
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Chile reports decrease in number of new COVID-19 cases
SANTIAGO, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chilean Health Minister Enrique Paris said Friday that 13 regions in the country have shown a decrease in the number of new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past week.
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UN chief sees no end yet in COVID-19 spread
UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said there is still no end in sight to the spread of COVID19 as he called for solidarity to fight the virus after deaths from the disease surpassed 1 million worldwide.
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Six COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including 3 from China, now in phase-3 trials — WHO
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Six COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including three from China, have entered phase-3 trials, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Thursday.
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US conducts further clinical trial for remdesivir as COVID-19 treatment
WASHINGTON, United States -- The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Thursday the start of a randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of a treatment regimen consisting of the antiviral remdesivir plus the immunomodulator interferon beta-1a in COVID-19 patients.