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16.03.2021 / 08:05

China approves a fourth COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

TAIPEI – China has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, one that was developed by the head of its Center for Disease Control, adding to its arsenal.

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New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

COVID-19 pandemic have been complicated by factors including the massive surge of human infections in the pandemic's first two years and an increasingly bitter political dispute. It took virus experts more than a dozen years to pinpoint the animal origin of SARS, a related virus. Goldstein and his colleagues say their analysis is the first solid indication that there may have been wildlife infected with the coronavirus at the market.

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China mulls mixing Covid vaccines to improve efficacy of jabs

China is considering the mixing of different Covid-19 vaccines to improve the relatively low efficacy of its existing options, a top health expert has told a conference.Authorities have to "consider ways to solve the issue that efficacy rates of existing vaccines are not high", Chinese media outlet The Paper reported, citing Gao Fu, the head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.His comments mark the first time a top Chinese expert has publicly alluded to the relatively low efficacy of the country's vaccines, as China forges ahead in its mass vaccination campaign and exports its jabs around the world.China has administered around 161 million doses since vaccinations began last year -- most people will require two shots -- and

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A year after first death in China, coronavirus source still a puzzle

- Doubts about Wuhan market -China won early kudos for reporting the virus and releasing its gene sequence in a timely manner, compared with its cover-up of the 2002-03 SARS outbreak.But there has also been secrecy and shifting stories.Wuhan authorities initially tried to cover up the outbreak and later spent precious weeks denying human-to-human transmission.Early on, Chinese officials declared flatly that the outbreak began at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan.But Chinese data in January 2020 showed that several of the first cases had no known links to the now-shuttered market, suggesting a source elsewhere.China's story morphed again last March when top Chinese disease control official Gao Fu said the market was not the source, but a

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China’s CDC director gets injected with experimental vaccine: ‘I hope it will work’

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention says he has been injected with an experimental coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to persuade the public to follow suit when one is approved.“I’m going to reveal something undercover: I am injected with one of the vaccines,” Gao Fu said in a webinar Sunday hosted by Alibaba Health, an arm of the Chinese e-commerce giant, and Cell Press, an American publisher of scientific journals.

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'You have to be brave': Top Chinese official gets experimental covid vaccine

BEIJING : The head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention says he has been injected with an experimental coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to persuade the public to follow suit when one is approved.“I'm going to reveal something undercover: I am injected with one of the vaccines," Gao Fu said in a webinar Sunday hosted by Alibaba Health, an arm of the Chinese e-commerce giant, and Cell Press, an American publisher of scientific journals.“I hope it will work." The Associated Press reported earlier this month that a state-owned Chinese company injected employees with experimental shots in March, even before the government-approved testing in people — a move that raised ethical concerns among some experts.Gao did not say when

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Wuhan wet market 'was not where coronavirus started but was super-spreader site'

The Chinese authorities claim the wet market in Wuhan said to be at the centre of the coronavirus pandemic is actually a 'victim' of the virus.

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Fresh hopes for coronavirus vaccine as Chinese official claims one could be ready by September

A top Chinese health official has said a coronavirus vaccine could be ready for "emergency" use by September.

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Coronavirus vaccine may be ready for 'emergency use' by September, China claims

China's chief medical officer has claimed that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready for emergency use by September.

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