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Brazil kicks off flu vaccine campaign amid pandemic

01:48 For South America, the month of April is the beginning of the flu season. This year, it comes during the Covid-19 pandemic.In Brazil, people are being urged to get a flu vaccine

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Flagship Pioneering raises $1.1 billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech

Flagship Pioneering, the Boston-based biotech company incubator and holding company, said it has raised $1.1 billion for its Flagship Labs unit.Flagship, which raised $1 billion back in 2019 for growt

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Xi says China ready to help Belgium with medical supplies amid COVID-19 outbreak

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday China is willing to help Belgium overcome the current shortage of medical supplies within its capacity. Xi, in a telephone conversation with King Philippe o

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China to deepen int'l cooperation on COVID-19

China will continue deepening international cooperation on responding to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the National Health Commission (NHC) said Thursday.

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Seed of hope: COVID-19 vaccine trials begin

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, threatening countries and regions around the world, progress in developing a vaccine is definitely good news. Currently, China has comm

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Vice premier stresses research on COVID-19 vaccine, treatment, medicine

Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan Wednesday stressed making full use of the effective drugs and treatment technologies and accelerating the progress of vaccine research

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Chinese military medical experts fast track drug research to aid virus battle: spokesman

China's military medical experts have wasted no time stepping up drug and vaccine research as well as virus source tracing to aid the country's battle against the nove

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IT Ministry: AI, 5G accelerate COVID-19 diagnosis, vaccine development

Artificial intelligence (AI), big data and 5G have all played important roles in diagnosis and vaccine development of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19), and th

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U.S. RNA medicines company part of race toward vaccine

02:55 Several biotech firms are racing to develop an effective COVID vaccine. One company in San Diego, California, says it might already have a viable product, but, as CGTN's Alasdair

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Communication, cooperation needed for coronavirus fight: health expert

More communication and cooperation are needed for the fight against the coronavirus, said Zhong Nanshan, renowned Chinese respiratory specialist, at a press conference Wednesday. "We hope that c

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Expert: Fight against COVID-19 should not rely on 'herd immunity'

CGTNRenowned Chinese respiratory specialist Zhong Nanshan said the fight against the COVID-19 should not be reliant on 'herd immunity', adding that the production of an

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Shanghai announces steady progress in COVID-19 vaccine development

The development of an mRNA-based vaccine to treat the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is progressing steadily with preliminary trials on primates and clinical trials expected to start in mid-

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Can recovered patients' plasma help me prevent COVID-19?

Designed by Li Yueyun The plasma of recovered patients of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) has been proven effective in treating the new disease because it contains large amounts of

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G7 schedules extraordinary Leaders Summit over COVID-19 outbreak

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the G7 extraordinary Leaders Summit through his Twitter account. Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries will hold an extraordinary leaders summ

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Researchers develop new test kit to detect coronavirus in 15 mins

A team led by Chinese respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan has developed a new test kit which is able to test the novel coronavirus infection in about 15 minutes.The study was published on Journal of

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Confirmed COVID-19 cases in UK rise to 206

A total of 206 patients have been tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Britain, according to the latest figures released Saturday by the Department of Health and Social Care. Two patients wh

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47 news COVID-19 cases confirmed in UK, bringing total infected number to 163

Britain has confirmed 47 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the country's total number of infections to 163, according to the country's health authorities. The latest figure includes 147 cases