An academic from China's top science institution said Friday at a press conference that China is closely tracking the mutation of the virus and actively deploying related scientific research proje
Congress on Wednesday approved $8.3 billion in emergency funding to respond to the spreading novel coronavirus, COVID-19, which has already sickened eighty people across thirteen states and killed nin
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday inspected the scientific research on novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as well as the diagnosis and treatment of the disease
Observers around the world said Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech on Sunday has demonstrated the country's governance capacity and social system strength in its fight against the COVID-19. In his
01:16 Karla Satchell, a professor of Microbiology-Immunology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, is a part of the task force doing research for a vaccine that wil
The White House has sent to Congress its 2.5-billion-USD supplemental budget request for additional money to fight the coronavirus. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The White House sent to U.S. Cong
02:57 Scientists around the world are racing to find a vaccine for COVID-19. That includes the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases, a consortium of nine labs in eight
01:12 The global fight against COVID-19 is on. The search for a vaccine is underway while Western drugs are being used to treat patients with the virus. But traditional Chinese medicin
Central China's Hubei Province, the center of COVID-19 outbreak, launched 23 projects on the research of the novel coronavirus, the provincial science and technology d
The coronavirus vaccine is expected to be submitted for clinical trials as early as late April, Xu Nanping, China's vice minister of science and technology, said at a p
The World Health Organization (WHO) suggested on Thursday to strike a balance of investment in simple public health interventions and in vaccine development, to fight COVID-19. "It's a matter of str
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that a WHO team of experts is currently in China to find answers to some unknowns of COVID-19. "The WHO-led
China's Guangdong Province will invest at least 500 million yuan (about 71.4 million U.S. dollars) in research projects to support the fight against the novel coronavi
China's state-owned pharmaceutical enterprise Sinopharm Group is not only working on developing a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, but has also stepped up efforts to produce chloroquine phosphat
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that the first vaccines for the novel coronavirus could be ready in 18 months. In the meantime, he tweeted
02:11 As the novel coronavirus, or Covid-19 as it has now been named, rages on, scientists around the world are racing against time to find a vaccine. In the UK, one leading research t
A U.S. health official said Friday that the development of vaccine against the coronavirus is going well, with "no glitches." Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Inf