BEIJING: Nearly two years into a pandemic that has seen China pursue some of the world’s most stringent coronavirus measures, some grumbling has started to emerge over the strategy, particularly as other nations learn to live with the virus. The zero-Covid approach is unrelenting — with border closures, targeted lockdowns and mass testing triggered sometimes … Read more
BEIJING: With the world still in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese scientists are accelerating the development of COVID-19 medicines. Tsinghua University, the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen and Brii Biosciences have jointly developed a cocktail therapy of monoclonal antibodies BRII-196 and BRII-198, which are derived from antibodies isolated from people who had recovered … Read more
National Health Commission (NHC) has claimed that China has no new locally diffused Covid-19 cases for the first time since July. China has been contending the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant since July 20, when a bunch of Covid-19 contaminations was noticed among airport vacuuming staff in the city of Nanjing. Since then, … Read more
