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(Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry said on Monday that the highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu had been found in wild birds in the northeastern province of Liaoning, marking the first confirmed cases of the strain
FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks stroll at Eminonu district amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Istanbul, Turkey March 3, 2021. REUTERS/Murad SezerANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey recorded 44,756 new coronavirus cases in the last
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan has completed checks on its first batch of AstraZeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccines and the first shots may start being administered from Monday, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said.FILE PHOTO: Vials of Oxford/AstraZeneca’s
FILE PHOTO: A nurse holds China’s Sinovac vaccine, a potential vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Sao Lucas Hospital of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), in Porto Alegre,
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Health authorities in Australia’s Victoria state ramped up contact tracing and prepared for more mass testing of residents in Melbourne after a new COVID-19 cluster linked to a quarantine hotel grew to
FILE PHOTO: A sign of Sinopharm is seen at the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), following the COVID-19 outbreak, in Beijing, China September 5, 2020. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File PhotoBANGKOK (Reuters) – Laos
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa will put on hold use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot in its vaccination programme, after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild-to-moderate infection caused by the country’s dominant coronavirus variant.FILE
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is expected to extend a state of emergency in Tokyo and other regions for another month on Tuesday, seeking to keep the upper hand over a COVID-19 outbreak even as daily
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s Seegene Inc said on Monday it developed the world’s first COVID-19 diagnostic test that is capable of identifying multiple mutant variants of the virus in a single reaction. The diagnostic