Reuters published by ChannelNewsAsia GENEVA: A wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus last year, as the source or possibly as an “amplifying setting”, the World Health Organization said on Friday (May 8), calling for more research. Chinese authorities shut down the market
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Blood thinners may help patients with severe Covid-19 infections, study finds
By Maggie Fox, CNN (CNN) – Blood thinning drugs could help save some patients who are the most severely affected by the new coronavirus, doctors reported on Wednesday. The findings from a team at Mount Sinai Hospital could help with a troubling problem that has shocked and horrified doctors treating coronavirus patients around the world
Read moreEuropean Union backs international inquiry into origins of coronavirus outbreak
By Stuart Lau, South China Morning Post THE European Union has called for a worldwide investigation into the origins and spread of Covid-19 in a move its foreign policy chief described as “standing aside from the battlefield between China and the US”. The EU said the bloc and its 27 member states would co-sponsor a
Read moreReport warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus
By Reuters and published by Daily Mail BEIJING could face a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into “armed confrontation”, an internal Chinese report has warned. The report, presented early last month by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing leaders
Read moreIndia to start mass production of Oxford vaccine
A LEADING candidate for a Covid-19 vaccine has shown promising results in animal trials, and is expected to see mass production in India within months, a Reuters report published by South China Morning Post said today (29.4.2020) The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest maker of vaccines by volume, said on Tuesday that it
Read moreCoronavirus pandemic will cause global famines of ‘biblical proportions,’ UN warns
By Rob Picheta, CNN Updated 0956 GMT (1756 HKT) April 22, 2020 London (CNN)The world is facing multiple famines of “biblical proportions” in just a matter of months, the UN has said, warning that the coronavirus pandemic will push an additional 130 million people to the brink of starvation. Famines could take hold in “about three dozen
Read moreDire warning from Trump and some travel tips
THE coronavirus death toll continues to rise reaching at least 64,606 worldwide today (5.4.2020) and we should all pray for the victims and do our best to cooperate with our government in fighting this deadly virus wreaking havoc everywhere. The grim data circulated by Johns Hopkins University as of 9 a.m. Beijing time (8 a.m.
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