Tue 13 May 2025: COVID-19 cases continue to surge across Taiwan, with nearly 10,000 seeking medical care last week, Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday, Focus Taiwan reported. On May 4-10, Taiwan saw 9,978 outpatient and emergency visits related to COVID-19, a 66% increase from the previous week. According to the CDC, this marks the fifth […]
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Sat 19 April 2025: The increasing trend of reducing foreign aid to Africa is forcing the continent to reassess its approach to healthcare delivery. African countries face a major challenge of dealing with high rates of communicable diseases, such as malaria and HIV/Aids, and rising levels of non-communicable diseases. But the continent’s health systems don’t have the […]
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Sat 19 April 2025: The Trump administration replaced the Covid.gov website with a platform that centers on the theory that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, NBC News reported Friday. Once a hub for COVID-19 resources such as vaccine information, testing access and long COVID support, the site now redirects users to […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Tue 08 April 2025: A deadly, highly antibiotic-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii has been detected in a hospital in Terengganu, Malaysia. Scientists identified the strain as belonging to the globally prevalent GC2 lineage, posing a serious public health threat. Researchers analyzed 126 bacterial samples collected between 2011 and 2020, revealing strong resistance to […]
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Wed 02 April 2025: Australia is facing the regular emergence of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus more than five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. The latest variant — LP.8.1 — is on the rise, making up close to one in five COVID-19 cases in New South Wales, local broadcaster SBS News reported Wednesday. It has become the […]
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Fri 14 March 2025: China Thursday said that it is “extremely unlikely” that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, rejecting the claims of the German intelligence report. “It is ‘extremely unlikely’ that the pandemic was caused by a lab leak, this is the authoritative conclusion reached by the […]
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Thu 13 March 2025: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a “pandemic” on March 11, 2020, and since then, over 7 million people have lost their lives worldwide. Although the disease was removed from the “International Public Health Emergency” category in 2023, fatalities continue. The first cases of COVID-19 emerged in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, when patients […]
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Tue 11 March 2025: German biotech firm BioNTech reported a loss of €665.3 million ($721 million) in 2024, as demand for its COVID-19 vaccines fell, according to the company’s financial results report on Monday. The company, which posted a €930.3 million profit in 2023, failed to make a profit in a fiscal year for the […]
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Sun 02 March 2025: Long-term health risks for COVID-19 patients who are hospitalized include increased chances of death and organ disorders, even years after discharge, according to a nationwide study published in the journal Infectious Diseases. Researchers examined data from over 380,000 individuals, including more than 60,000 hospitalized due to COVID-19 in 2020. They tracked […]
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Sun 23 February 2025: A Chinese team discovered a new bat coronavirus that poses a risk of animal-to-human transmission as it uses the same human receptor as the COVID-19 virus, a Hong Kong daily reported on Thursday, citing the latest study. The study, conducted by the Guangzhou Laboratory in collaboration with the Guangzhou Academy of […]
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