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Chinese coronavirus vaccines
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United States

Opinion | US vaccine sceptics are now in charge. That’s bad news for the world

As RFK Jnr replaces CDC vaccine experts with hand-picked sceptics, at peril is not just US public health but its global scientific authority.

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Science

China’s Wuhan institute creates nasal Covid-19 vaccine for ‘future pandemics’

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong to stop offering Sinovac Covid jabs when stocks expire in October

US-China relations

My Take | ‘Missteps’ admitted, but no apology by US military for anti-vax propaganda

US operations exploiting foreign vaccine programmes have time and again caused untold damage to the public health of countries targeted.

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Imee Marcos. Photo: AFP
European Union

European Commission wrong to redact Covid-19 vaccine deal details: EU court

The commission failed to show how divulging indemnification details would harm the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical groups supplying the vaccines, the EU General Court ruled.

US-Asean relations

Asian Angle | US has to regain Asean’s trust after its anti-China Covid jab fake news campaign

News of the US military’s secret disinformation campaign to undermine China’s Covid-19 vaccine has outraged the Philippines.

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US-China relations

Opinion | No good reason for US to spread anti-vax rumours in the Philippines

Whatever one thinks of the Sinovac jab, it is unconscionable to undermine public confidence towards vaccines in a partner country during a pandemic.

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Rodrigo Duterte, then president of the Philippines, receives a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine at the presidential palace in Manila on May 3, 2021, to encourage more Filippinos to get vaccinated amid the pandemic. Photo: Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP
US-China relations

Opinion | US anti-vax campaign in Philippines smacks of an own goal

Whatever one thinks of the Sinovac jab, it is unconscionable to undermine public confidence towards vaccines in a partner country during a pandemic.

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US-China relations

China lashes out at US over report of Pentagon’s secret anti-vax campaign

Beijing calls on Washington to ‘stop fabricating and disseminating false information against other countries’.

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US-China relations

Pentagon not denying secret campaign to discredit Chinese vaccines

In wake of report on its anti-vaccine programme, Pentagon says it conducts a wide range of operations ‘to counter adversary malign influence’.

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Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte (left) receives a dose of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine in Manila in May 2021. Photo: AP
US-China relations

Sinovac hits back over reported US campaign to discredit China’s Covid vaccine

Chinese pharmaceutical company says Pentagon’s social media attack targeting its coronavirus jabs could lead to ‘enormous disaster’.

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The Pentagon’s campaign targeting the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine reached Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East, Reuters says. Photo: AFP
Corruption in China

Man behind China’s first approved Covid-19 shot loses seat in legislature

Yang Xiaoming has lost his post as NPC deputy over alleged ‘serious violations of discipline and law’, NPC Standing Committee says, as China cracks down on corruption in the healthcare sector.

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Coronavirus pandemic

Brazil’s Bolsonaro indicted over alleged falsification of own vaccination data

Police accuse Bolsonaro and his aides of tampering with the health ministry’s database shortly before he travelled to the US in December 2022.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

‘Hongkongers should get Covid XBB variant jabs ahead of Lunar New Year’

Professor Ivan Hung says about 80 per cent of cases at Queen Mary Hospital’s isolation ward are related to Covid-19.

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Residents waiting to get Covid-19 jabs at a clinic last year. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong receives first batch of Covid XBB variant vaccines

Vaccination arrangements for the 100,000-jab batch manufactured by US drug firm Pfizer expected to be announced in December.

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The first batch of Covid XBB variant vaccines has arrived in Hong Kong. Photo: Sam Tsang
Medicine

Fosun Pharma to deliver China-made surgical robots in key medical milestone

The Fosun Group is looking to make another major leap in the healthcare industry as it prepares to deliver locally-made surgical robots to hospitals.

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Science

Chinese mRNA researchers celebrate Nobel win for field’s pioneers

It will take up to a decade for China to catch up with global developments in the technology, which is the foundation of Covid-19 vaccines, scientist says.

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Coronavirus China

Coronavirus in China: new vaccination drive as next Covid wave looms

China’s top health agency is urging the elderly and vulnerable groups to get vaccinated ahead of the cooler autumn weather.

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With cooler seasons on the way, Beijing hopes to avoid a repeat of the Covid wave that slammed the country last year. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong stock market

Chinese pharma stocks surge as nods for more Covid-19 jabs on the way

Chinese pharmaceutical stocks gain traction again, as health authorities said new vaccines targeting coronavirus variants are in the pipeline to tackle Covid-19 outbreaks.

Science

Global virus database GISAID pledges clarity after journal flags access issues

Journal report says researchers’ access was cut off in response to criticism, which Global Initiative for Sharing All Influenza Data has denied.

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Does Chinese tech giant’s AI algorithm hold the key to better mRNA vaccines?

Baidu-led researchers say their method takes just minutes to find optimal mRNA sequence for more effective and stable Covid-19 jabs, and it can also be used to develop cancer medicine and monoclonal antibodies.

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The Baidu team borrowed techniques from natural language processing to develop their algorithm for improving Covid-19 vaccines. Photo: Shutterstock
Singapore

Singapore’s Covid cases are on the rise. Most young kids aren’t fully protected

Only 28 per cent of children aged five to 11 have ‘minimum protection’ against the disease, according to the city state’s Health Ministry, as weekly Covid case numbers top 27,000.

As of last month, just 28 per cent of children aged five to 11 had received the number of doses required to achieve “minimum protection” against Covid, Singapore’s health ministry said. Photo: Shutterstock
Coronavirus China

Covid rates in China were rising in run-up to Labour Day holiday

Medical authorities say case numbers are likely to rise further, but risk of severe infections remains low.

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Coronavirus China

Time for China to limit Covid mask mandates, Zhong Nanshan says

Respiratory expert says extended use of face coverings does not encourage development of natural resistance to disease, particularly in children.

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Coronavirus China

How China’s Covid-19 self-reliance medical goal could lose momentum

While the next wave is predicted to be far less severe, experts are calling for more home-grown mRNA vaccines and antivirals to be approved.

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There are calls for China to speed up approvals of domestically developed mRNA vaccines and treatments for Covid-19. Photo: AFP
Coronavirus China

China reports first case of coinfection by two Omicron subvariants

Disease control authorities say a woman in Chongqing tested positive for a virus that had features of two Omicron strains.

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A woman in Chongqing is China’s first case of coinfection with two Omicron variants. Photo: Shutterstock
Coronavirus China

How much did China pay to vaccinate its population against Covid-19?

A national health body says the cost per dose was about the same for the main jabs used around the country.

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Coronavirus China

Immune imprinting makes some Covid-19 booster shots less effective: study

Scientists from Shanghai Jiao Tong University school of medicine cast doubt on effectiveness of booster shots after comparing serum samples from 135 patients infected with the BA2 strain of the Omicron variant.

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