People wearing face masks to help protect from the coronavirus walk on a pedestrian overhead bridge past construction cranes at the central business district in Beijing, Oct 18, 2021. (Andy Wong / AP) BEIJING – Beijing's Changping District on Friday reported four positive cases of COVID-19, according to the district health commission. The four people […]
A medical worker inoculates a citizen with a booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Fanyu district of Guangzhou city, south China's Guangdong province, Oct 18, 2021. (DENG HUA / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 28 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its […]
Staff members are on duty at a residential community under quarantine in Chengguan district of Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu province, Oct 20, 2021. (CHEN BIN / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported 13 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Thursday. Of the new […]
In this March 31, 2021 photo, a resident receives nucleic acid testing for COVID-19 at Mengmao village of Mengmao township, Ruili city, southwest China's Yunnan province. (CHEN XINBO / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland reported 22 imported COVID-19 cases and two locally-transmitted infections on Sunday, the National Health Commission said in its daily report […]
In this file photo taken on March 31, 2021, a resident undergoes nucleic acid testing for COVID-19 in Ruili city, southwest China's Yunnan province. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland reported 19 imported COVID-19 cases and one locally-transmitted infection on Saturday, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday. The […]
In this file photo taken on Sept 14, 2020, a medical worker collects a throat swab sample to test for COVID-19 at Ruili People's Hospital in Yunnan province. (YANG XUEMEI / CHINA DAILY) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 10 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, all imported from outside the mainland, the National Health […]
SYDNEY, Oct 15, 2021 – (亞太商訊 via SEAPRWire.com) – Topelia Australia 是一家生物技術公司，旨在將一種用於隔離的澳大利亞人的新型 ATT 治療商業化，該公司啟動了一項投資計劃，旨在保留澳大利亞人擁有的發明——同時將治療推廣到世界各地。 Thomas Borody 教授 – Topelia 宣布籌集 2500 萬美元的 A 系列資金，以資助 COVID-19抗病毒三聯療法 (ATT) 的製造和臨床試驗。– Topelia 已從 Thomas Borody 教授那裡獲得 COVID-19 抗病毒三聯療法的全球獨家專利權。– Borody 的業績記錄包括對消化性潰瘍和克羅恩病的有效治療、腸道微生物群的重新定植以及 3 種 FDA 批准的市場上的藥物。– 根據目前的研究，ATT 為 COVID-19 的預防和早期治療提供了一種廉價且醫學上有效的治療方法。– 該公司正在從澳大利亞、亞洲和美國的投資者那裡籌集 2500 萬美元。該公司表示：“Topelia 提議在當前的疫苗接種計劃的同時提供 ATT 治療，以治療和接種我們的疫苗以擺脫這種大流行。隨著澳大利亞解除封鎖，世界各國的病例激增，因此快速-至關重要 跟踪安全的早期抗病毒藥物治療套件的生產。 新型抗病毒三聯療法，將被命名為 Ziverdox，包括幾十年來 TGA 批准的具有特殊安全性的藥物。 […]
Medical workers work in a lab for COVID-19 nucleic acid testing in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province, Aug 11, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported 21 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 20 imported ones and one local infection, the National Health Commission said in its daily report […]
Third dose of COVID-19 vaccine found to boost immunity levels significantly A medical worker administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a citizen at a community health center in Qingxiu district of Nanning, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Aug 27, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Some local governments in China have begun offering COVID-19 booster […]
Kids play at a park in Huli District of Xiamen, Fujian province, Oct 5, 2021. (ZENG DEMENG / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 24 new COVID-19 cases, all imported from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday. Ten of the cases were reported in […]
In this file photo taken on March 31, 2021, a resident undergoes nucleic acid testing for COVID-19 in Ruili city, southwest China's Yunnan province. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland reported 24 imported COVID-19 cases and two locally-transmitted infections on Tuesday, the National Health Commission in its daily report on Wednesday. One of the […]
A 42-year-old Vietnamese woman tested positive to COVID-19 in Macao on Tuesday, raising the number of infections in the renovation worker cluster to four. The Macao Special Administrative Region launched a citywide COVID-19 testing on Monday night – its third in the past three months – after the first case in the cluster was reported. […]
A medical worker works at a temporary lab for nucleic acid testing in Bayan county, Harbin of northeast China's Heilongjiang province, Sept 25, 2021. (XIE JIANFE / XINHUA) BEIJING – Sunday saw 26 imported COVID-19 cases and one locally-transmitted infection newly reported on the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said in its daily report […]
Medical workers collect swab samples from students for nucleic acid testing at a school in Fuzhou, Fujian province. (LYU MING/CHINA NEWS SERVICE) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland reported 26 imported COVID-19 cases and two locally-transmitted infections on Saturday, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday. One of the newly-added local cases […]
In this file photo taken on Sept 19, 2017, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the General Debate of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at the UN headquarters in New York. (PHOTO / XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – Some 75 countries, including China, on Friday called for global solidarity for vaccine equity […]
SINGAPORE, Sep 30, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has developed an Automated Vaccine Inoculation Dispenser (AVID) system, which replaces the manual step of filling injection syringes with vaccine liquid. AVID is customised for the vaccination centres which are set up by the Ministry of Health […]
A health worker inoculates a woman with a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination at a zoo in Surabaya on Sept 13, 2021. (JUNI KRISWANTO / AFP) GENEVA – China and a group of like-minded countries support the waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, and call upon competent countries […]
In this file photo on July 30, 2021, a medical worker takes a swab sample from a child for COVID-19 nucleic acid test at a testing site in Siming district of Xiamen, East China's Fujian province. (PHOTO / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 13 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National […]
Patients recovered from COVID-19 get on an ambulance to a medical facility for rehabilitation in Xiamen, east China's Fujian province, on Sept 25, 2021. (JIANG KEHONG / XINHUA) BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported nine new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday. Of the […]
Taxi driver Zheng Ruiwen (front) puts on a protective gown before setting off to transport COVID-19 nucleic acid samples in Putian, Fujian province, on Sept 23, 2021. (ZHANG BIN / CHINA NEWS SERVICE) Chinese biotechnology company Clover Biopharmaceuticals said on Wednesday that a large trial shows its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine is 79 percent effective against […]