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Xi and his unremitting call for global health cooperation

Over the past seven years, Chinese President Xi Jinping has on various occasions stressed the importance of global health cooperation, expressed China's support for international health organization

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Second potential COVID-19 vaccine in U.S. starts safety test

A second U.S. company began safety tests for a vaccine against COVID-19 on Monday. Inovio Pharmaceuticals said Monday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Who has the most high-profile COVID-19 tracking map?

Screenshot of the COVID-19 tracking map on Johns Hopkins University's website. As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, reporting data of new and total confirmed cases on a daily basis has become

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WhatsApp introduces new limit on message forwards to fight spread of misinformation

WhatsApp is imposing additional restriction on how frequently a message can be shared on its platform in its latest effort to curtail the spread of misinformation.The Facebook -owned instant messagin

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British virus crisis deepens, while New York sees positives

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained in intensive care Tuesday for treatment of his coronavirus illness, while authorities in New York hoped that a leveling of

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World Health Day 2020: Support nurses to ensure a healthy world

VCG "Nurses are the backbone of any health system," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday, which marks this year's World Health Day. "Today, many nurses find themselv

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Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide at 0000 GMT, April 7

The following are the latest updates on the COVID-19 global confirmed cases in hardest-hit countries by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins

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Football stars rally to fight COVID-19 as pandemic takes its toll

Both Lionel Messi (L) and Cristiano Ronaldo are doing their bit for the COVID-19 fight. /VCG As COVID-19 continues to ravage countries and upend lives around the world, a growing number of foo

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Swarm gets all the approvals it needs to begin operating its satellite connectivity service in the U.S.

Space startup Swarm emerged from stealth mode in an unusual way two years ago when it turned out that it had launched some of its satellites in contravention of an FCC order not to do so. The regulato

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COVID-19 deaths top 70,000 worldwide

The fresh figure reached 70,356, as the global total confirmed cases reached 1,286,409. NEW YORK, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from COVID-19 exceeded 70,000 world

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COVID-19 Global Roundup: International vaccine collaborations

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Italy, Spain and France see slowing coronavirus death toll

A woman walks a dog on Palm Sunday in Naples, Italy, April 5, 2020. /Reuters Italy, Spain and France have seen a decline in daily deaths from the novel coronavirus over a 24-hours period, than

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OPEC has no choice but to deliver

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Beijing probably under long-term epidemic control: official

BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Epidemic prevention and control in Beijing will probably become a long-term normal, a spokesperson for the municipal government said Sunda

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Apple has sourced over 20 million protective masks, now building and shipping face shields

As it mobilizes its supply chain, employees, and partners to provide personal protective equipment to medical workers and others working to stop the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, Apple has sourced

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Sunny weather tempts Europe; UK queen urges self-discipline

As warm, sunny weather beckoned across Europe, Queen Elizabeth II appealed to Britons on Sunday to exercise self-discipline in “an increasingly challenging time” as the

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Medical supplies donated by Chinese company arrive in Jordan

A batch of medical supplies donated by a Chinese company have arrived in Jordan, the Jordanian Royal Court said on Saturday. The support package, donated by the Jack M