[ad_1] NEW YORK: As the world celebrates the advances in vaccines against the new coronavirus, a leading expert from the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in an interview with Agence France-Presse that public mistrust ran the risk of rendering even treatments useless more effective against the pandemic. “A vaccine that …
Read More »Deep Freeze Hurdle Makes Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine One for the Rich
[ad_1] When Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine rolls off production lines, Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co. will be waiting to distribute it through a complex and expensive system of airport warehouses, refrigerated vehicles, and inoculation points in China. Once they arrive at the vaccination centers, the injections must …
Read More »8 Iranian coronavirus vaccines on WHO’s candidate list
[ad_1] TEHRAN – Eight homegrown COVID-19 vaccines have been listed among the 48 promising candidates from the World Health Organization (WHO). Eight COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in Iran are on the WHO list, and of course another eight are also likely to be included on the list, wrote Kianoush Jahanpour, a …
Read More »Keeping your fingers crossed on China’s five-year development plan – The Manila Times
[ad_1] Chinese President Xi Jinping recently spoke to the seven-member Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and gave a report on the development taken by the country’s 13th Five-Year Development Plan that began in 2015. He stated that all the objectives and tasks established …
Read More »‘Insincere public servants must not be tolerated’ – The Manila Times
[ad_1] HONG KONG: No country tolerates public servants who do not recognize their national identity or who do not sincerely pledge allegiance to the state when taking office and performing their duties, Chinese officials and experts said, dismissing accusations by some Western politicians about the latest decision of the China’s …
Read More »Peter Navarro: White House under ‘assumption’ of Trump’s second term
[ad_1] White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Friday that the White House is operating as if the president has a second term, ignoring the reality of the 2020 presidential election results. After Joe Biden was declared president-elect last week, the former vice president has begun building his cabinet and …
Read More »COVID-19 pandemic hits new highs and new lows
[ad_1] This week, COVID-19 headlines were torn between cautious optimism and abject despair. On the bright side, Monday morning brought us a shred of hope: claims from Pfizer and BioNTech that their vaccine candidate was very effective. Its tests so far showed it to be around 90 percent effective, although …
Read More »Trump touts questionable loss of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine after election
[ad_1] The elections ended but the pandemic did not About 53,000 people were hospitalized for coronavirus on Thursday in the United States and deaths surpassed 1,000 for the fourth day in a row as the country broke its record for the most Covid-19 cases in a single day on Friday, …
Read More »Arum plans to face Crawford vs Pacquiao if Brook’s fight goes
[ad_1] LAS VEGAS – Terence Crawford has long held a place in the mythical pound-for-pound rankings that boxing people like to argue about when all the fights of the day are over. What Crawford is still waiting for is the one fight that will put an end to all those …
Read More »How a human rights angel lost her halo
[ad_1] When Daw Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from years of house arrest a decade ago, never having used a smartphone or Facebook, held court in the office of her banned political party, the musty smell emanated from the stacked human rights reports. on the floor. . Armed with nothing …
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