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Wuhan party chief on track to becoming governor for handling COVID-19 outbreak

William Zheng, South China Morning Post
Posted at May 04 04:52 PM

Wang Zhonglin caused controversy for saying the city should be grateful to Xi Jinping and the party for coronavirus response but his performance pleased Beijing. Wang and Hubei party boss Ying Yong, who is also tipped for promotion, were brought in amid a purge of provincial leaders at the height of the pandemic.    Read more »

Thousands of revelers attend Wuhan music festival

Martin Quin Pollard, Reuters
Posted at May 02 07:38 AM

The festival was making a return in Wuhan after it was forced to be online only last year due to COVID-19 restrictions.   Read more »

Xi Jinping offers China’s help to address India's COVID-19 crisis

Amber Wang, South China Morning Post
Posted at May 01 12:44 PM

Chinese president tells Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi he is willing to strengthen cooperation and provide support and assistance. India reported almost 390,000 new cases and 3,500 deaths on Friday, and has appealed for aid such as oxygen concentrators. Read more »

World military spending grows despite pandemic

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 26 12:26 PM

Military expenditure worldwide rose to nearly $2 trillion in 2020, defying the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers said Monday. Read more »

WHO seeks next steps in COVID-19 origins probe

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 22 04:15 PM

After an international mission to China turned up more questions than answers about the pandemic origins, the WHO is evaluating how to move forward through a diplomatic quagmire to solve the mystery. Read more »

China's Q1 GDP grows at record 18.3 percent year-on-year as recovery speeds up

Reuters
Posted at Apr 16 10:38 AM

China's economy grew at a record pace in the first quarter, official data showed on Friday, expanding 18.3 percent from a year earlier as the recovery from the coronavirus slump accelerated. Read more »

Philippines receives add’l 500,000 doses of Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 11 09:27 PM

The Philippines received on Sunday an additional supply of 500,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Beijing-based Sinovac and purchased by the government, officials said. Read more »

Mix and match? China mulls mixing vaccines to improve efficacy of jabs

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 11 12:22 PM

China is considering the mixing of different COVID-19 vaccines to improve the relatively low efficacy of its existing options, a top health expert has told a conference. Read more »

How China took unlikely lead in the global supply of COVID-19 vaccines

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 09 08:54 PM

Chinese shots have reached more than 60 countries so far, as rich nations guard their doses for mass inoculation at home. But the vaccines are still under review for WHO authorization, and concerns remain over efficacy and data transparency.  Read more »

Wuhan market where virus spotted in early stage may be demolished

Kyodo News
Posted at Apr 09 11:23 AM

A market in the central China city of Wuhan, where many people were confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus in the initial stage of the outbreak in late 2019, is expected to be demolished, the nation's media reported Thursday. Read more »

Indonesia turns to China to help plug vaccine shortage after AstraZeneca delays

Stanley Widianto, Reuters
Posted at Apr 08 05:52 PM

Indonesia is in talks with China on getting as many as 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to plug a gap in deliveries after delays in the arrivals of AstraZeneca shots, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Wednesday. Read more »

Scientists call for new probe into COVID-19 origins - with or without China

Reuters
Posted at Apr 08 01:15 PM

In an open letter, 24 scientists and researchers from Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan said the study was tainted by politics.   Read more »

COVID-19: Report on WHO-led Wuhan mission leaves unanswered questions

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 03 08:32 AM

The 300-page-plus document provides interesting hints of information: there was a rise in acute respiratory illness among the elderly in Wuhan in early December 2019, several weeks before doctors identified an outbreak in the city, and more than half of Wuhan’s earliest known cases had some connection to food markets. Read more »

114 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines rolled out in China, where pandemic began

Reuters
Posted at Mar 31 03:58 PM

China carried out about 3.7 million vaccinations against COVID-19 on March 23, bringing the total number administered to 114.69 million, according to data released by the National Health Commission on Tuesday. Read more »

Draft WHO coronavirus report pours cold water on lab-leak theory - report

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 30 01:04 PM

The virus that causes COVID-19 most likely passed from bats into humans via an intermediary animal, but it is “extremely unlikely” that it came from a laboratory leak, according to a draft of a highly anticipated World Health Organization investigation report into the origins of the virus.   Read more »

Coronavirus likely jumped to humans from bats through 'missing link': expert report

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 29 09:04 PM

GENEVA, Switzerland - An international expert mission to Wuhan concluded in a report seen Monday that Covid-19 likely first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal, with investigators all but ruling out a laboratory leak. Read more »

UAE, China launch project to produce Sinopharm vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 29 06:31 AM

The United Arab Emirates and China on Sunday announced a venture to produce the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine in the Gulf nation, state media reported.   Read more »

Taiwan to help allies buy vaccines, but not from China

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 24 03:31 PM

Taiwan will help its handful of remaining diplomatic allies buy COVID-19 vaccines but on the condition that Taiwanese money is not used to obtain Chinese vaccines, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Wednesday. Read more »

400,000 pang doses ng Sinovac vaccines dumating sa Pilipinas

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 24 08:18 PM

Dumating ngayong Miyerkoles sa Pilipinas ang dagdag na 400,000 doses ng COVID-19 vaccines ng Sinovac, na bahagi ng donasyon ng gobyerno ng China. Read more »

China donating COVID-19 vaccines to 'soften blow' of seizing PH territories: Carpio

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 24 01:55 PM

China is trying to "soften the blow" of seizing West Philippine Sea by donating vaccines to Manila, former Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said Wednesday. Read more »