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China, Malaysia seek to strengthen ties during FM's meeting

01:14 China and Malaysia sought to strengthen ties during Thursday's meeting between Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Malaysian counterpart Hishammuddin Hus

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China recommends COVID-19 vaccination for elderly above 60

Elderly people aged over 60 are now recommended to receive vaccination against COVID-19 in China, said the National Health Commission (NHC) on Thursday in an updated gu

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S. Korean PM says to adopt 'vaccine passport' in April

South Korea said on Thursday it will issue so-called COVID-19 vaccine passports to immunized citizens.At a government meeting, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said a mobile app, which will allow intern

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Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is 100% effective in kids ages 12-15

Pfizer/BioNTech said on Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine was 100 percent effective in kids aged between 12 to 15 in a phase three clinical trial testing.

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Updates: WHO releases report on global tracing of COVID-19 origins

SUMMARYThe number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has exceeded 128 million, with over 2.8 million deaths and more than 72 million recoveries, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JH

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Zimbabwe receives new shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from China

Zimbabwe received its third shipment of COVID-19 vaccine doses on Tuesday procured from the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac.The delivery of the vaccines comes at a time when the country is sca

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Upcoming Boao Forum aims to reshape world growth confidence

A view of Boao, Hainan Province, China. /CFP This year's Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference (AC) 2021 will reshape growth confidence, said the forum secretariat at a press conference in Bei

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Boeing seals large 737 MAX order as airlines eye recovery

Boeing 737 Max airplanes sit parked at the company's production facility in Renton, Washington, November 18, 2020. /VCG U.S. carrier Southwest Airlines agreed to buy 100 additional Boeing 737

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Rise of vaccine nationalism

01:29 The bitter dispute between the UK and European Union over AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine has led to a new and for some, life-threatening, trend: vaccine nationalism.Even U.S Pres

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Philippines receives first batch of Chinese Sinovac vaccine

The first batch of 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech arrived in Manila, capital of the Philippines, on Monday.Philippine President Rod

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South Africa plans to vaccinate 200,000 people daily against COVID-19 - report

South Africa plans to administer coronavirus vaccines to up to 200,000 people a day beginning around May, the Sunday Times newspaper said on Sunday, citing Health Minis

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Brazil gets more active ingredients for COVID-19 vaccine from China

Two more batches of active ingredients provided by China to make the COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Brazil on Saturday, which will be used to produce 12.2 million shots of vaccine.The initial shipment o

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1 million doses of China's Sinovac vaccine arrive in El Salvador

An aircraft carrying doses of COVID-19 vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech arrives in El Salvador, March 28, 2021. /Press Secretariat of the Presidency of the Repub

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EU Won’t Let Astra Export Covid Doses Until It Meets Commitments

The European Union will block exports of AstraZeneca Plc coronavirus vaccines if the company fails to deliver the doses bought by the region on time, according to the E

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China's CanSino to offer COVID-19 vaccines to COVAX

Products of CanSinoBIO. /CFP China's CanSino Biologics Inc has proposed supplying "tens of millions of doses" of its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to the global vaccine-sharing scheme known as

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The push for farmworkers to get COVID vaccinations in the U.S.

02:47 As the vaccine rollout continuesacrossthe United States, there’s one group,farmworkers, which is quickly trying to catch up.They say they should be a prioritysincefarmworkers are

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WuXi Biologics to produce COVID-19 vaccine in Germany by end of year

China's WuXi Biologics will likely produce COVID-19 vaccines in Germany by the end of the year, according to local media Saturday.The Chinese pharmaceutical company last December struck a 150-million