China’s censors blocked live coverage of the vice presidential debate on Wednesday night when Mike Pence was asked a question about the communist nation. “The outage affected only a small number of people in China with access to channels like CNN, which is available in some hotels. She came back …
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China, which has four coronavirus vaccine candidates in stage 3 clinical trials, said on Friday that it will join the Covid-19 vaccine alliance known as COVAX. The country signed an agreement with GAVI, the co-leader of the alliance, on Thursday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement. China initially …
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People wait in line at a Covid-19 testing site in Beijing. (AP Photo / Mark Schiefelbein) China, in addition to denying US allegations that COVID-19 has emerged from a biological laboratory in Wuhan, also denied that it emanated from a wet market in the central Chinese city of bats or …
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The COVAX facility aims to deliver at least 2 billion doses of vaccines by the end of 2021 (Representational) Beijing: China’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the country has formally joined the global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as COVAX, making it the largest economy to date to pledge its …
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China is participating in a vaccination effort backed by the World Health Organization, stepping in to fill a gap in global health leadership created by the Trump administration. Beijing on Thursday joined the $ 18 billion Covax initiative that aims to give low-income countries the same access to vaccines as …
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China claimed that the coronavirus broke out in various parts of the world last year. Beijing: China claimed on Friday that the coronavirus broke out in various parts of the world last year, but was the only one to report and act first, refuting the widely held view that the …
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In the last 24 hours, India recorded 70,496 new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) and 964 deaths, bringing the overall count and death toll to 6,906,151 and 106,490, respectively. The country’s active cases, which have been below a million for 17 consecutive days, fell further below 900,000 on Friday, while more …
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US President Donald Trump has returned to the White House from a military hospital. Washington: US President Donald Trump has warned that China will have to “pay a high price” for the spread of the coronavirus globally. Less than 50 hours after he returned to the White House from a …
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China said that Taiwan is an inalienable part of its territory. New Delhi: India on Thursday took a veiled shot from China on guidelines issued by its embassy in New Delhi to Indian media not to violate the “One China” policy before Taiwan’s national day, saying there are “free media” …
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China was accused by Taiwan of attempting to impose censorship on India after its embassy in New Delhi advised journalists to observe the “one China” principle after newspapers ran advertisements for Taiwan’s national day. Just a few months after the deadly clashes between Indian and Chinese troops on the disputed …
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