As the world races to create a vaccine, the World Health Organization and partners have launched the COVID-19 Technology Access pool. It's an initiative aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatment
By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaPresident Rodrigo Duterte said he believes China will be the first among countries developing a vaccine to stop the dreaded COVID-19.Speaking
Virus knows no borders, and the unknown of COVID-19 is greater than the known, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday, adding that China is open to international cooperation in the pandemic a
The leaders of the European Union and Japan said on Tuesday that global solidarity, cooperation, and effective multilateralism are required to defeat the coronavirus.
India has about 0.3 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 of population which is among the lowest in the world, against the statistics of 4.4 deaths per 100,000 population for t
Thai COVID-19 vaccine research team on Monday said it will be recruiting human beings for vaccine trials later this year following an ongoing three months test on monk
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. /Photo Courtesy: South African Presidency South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced plans by the government to further ease lockdown restri
China's COVID-19 vaccine trial, the first such vaccine to reach phase 1 clinical trial, has been found to be safe, well-tolerated, and able to generate an immune response against SARS-COV-2 in humans
China's COVID-19 vaccine trial, the first such vaccine to reach phase 1 clinical trial, has been found to be safe, well-tolerated, and able to generate an immune respo
Italy has left the worst part of the COVID-19 emergency behind and as lockdown restrictions are slowly lifted the country must now enter the new phase with confidence a
COVID-19 vaccine development and deployment in China, when available, will be made a global public good, which will be China's contribution to ensuring vaccine accessi
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks to reporters in Washington, U.S., March 3, 2020. /Reuters The U.S. economy will recover from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
Three COVID-19 vaccines have entered phase II clinical trials in Beijing, a municipal health official said on Sunday.Xu Qiang, head of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, said
The World Health Organization (WHO) never asked to visit a specific lab in China and allegations that China denied WHO experts a visit to the P4 lab in Wuhan are against the facts, officials from the
Israel's Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Neovii, a Swiss-based biopharmaceutical company, announced on Thursday that they have signed an agreement to advance a patent-ba
A COVID-19 vaccine might be ready and available in at least one year, the Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday. "Vaccine development timelines are difficult to predict,
01:42 There are over 100 different vaccines are under development and at least eight of them are already in human trials globally, according to the World Health Organization.Pfizer, an