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On China’s coronavirus front line, not everyone wants a vaccine – just yet
As a medical specialist at a public hospital in northeast China, Zhang Quan is at high risk of exposure to the coronavirus.The 37-year-old gastroenterologist from Anshan, Liaoning province, tries to…
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Why Asia is poised to leapfrog the West on its way to a fast pandemic recovery
As the world prepares for the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, Asia is on target for a fast economic recovery. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development projects that China, Asia’s…
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Pacific Islands look to US, Australia, New Zealand for help with Covid-19 vaccines
Pacific Island countries are banking on the support of larger regional neighbours to vaccinate their populations against Covid-19, as their economies reel from the collapse of tourism and international travel.The…
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New museums and Smokey Bear: what’s in the $900bn US stimulus package?
Tucked into a 5,593-page bill are a range of obscure provisions that appear to have little to do with fortifying a fragile economy Late on Monday night, Congress approved a…
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France eases ban on British travel meant to stop spread of mutated coronavirus strain
France will reopen its borders to passengers from England on Wednesday, ending a blockade intended to stop the spread of a new coronavirus variant, but which has held up thousands…
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Coronavirus: Top US scientist Anthony Fauci gets Moderna vaccine
Anthony Fauci, the United States’ top infectious disease specialist, received his Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday along with other senior officials and six health workers at a live streamed event at…
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How we are counting every US healthcare worker who dies from coronavirus
Over 70 reporters at The Guardian and Kaiser Health News have scrutinized data sources, interviewed the bereaved and spoken with healthcare experts Why is there a need to count frontline…
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Indonesia’s Joko Widodo replaces health minister in cabinet reshuffle as coronavirus crisis deepens
Indonesia’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic will now be spearheaded by a new health minister who comes from the banking sector and has an educational background in nuclear physics.Budi Gunadi…
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How the self-inflicted collapse of US-China scientific ties compounded Washington’s coronavirus failure
This is the sixth instalment of a 15-part series looking back at the effects of the coronavirus outbreak one year after it first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan.…
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BioNTech confident its vaccine will work on new coronavirus strain
German pharmaceutical company BioNTech is confident that its coronavirus vaccine works against the new UK variant, but further studies are needed to be completely sure, its chief executive said on…