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Inside one of the new production facilities the China National Biotec Group (CNBG) has built for manufacturing a Covid-19 vaccines CNBG announced that one of the potential vaccine candidates had completed phase one and phase two clinical trials. Photo: The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission China National Biotec Group (CNBG) says tests show its…

June 16, 2020 | 3:01pm The novel coronavirus pandemic can’t be stopped without proper treatment. Just look at the global curve, which is anything but flat. The past few weeks brought a surge in the number of confirmed cases, with daily tolls averaging between 120,000 and 140,000. As of Monday morning, the total count passed…

Researchers whose canceled U.S. grant caused an outcry from other scientists urge preventive monitoring of viruses in southwestern China.The horseshoe bat genus, Rhinolophus, seems to have originated in China tens of millions of years ago and has a long history of co-evolution with coronaviruses.Credit...DeAgostini/Getty ImagesJune 1, 2020Updated 3:01 p.m. ETAn international team of scientists, including…

TOPLINE Shi Zhengli, the deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, said in an interview Monday on China Global Television Network that new viruses being discovered, such as Covid-19, are "just the tip of the iceberg," and that international cooperation is needed to prevent future epidemics. BEIJING, CHINA - MAY 25: Soldiers of the…

President Donald Trump has singled out a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson in his latest attack on Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic, branding government statements "a disgrace" and blaming the Chinese Communist Party for "pain and carnage" caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.The president did not specify which spokesperson he was attacking, but on Wednesday spokesperson Zhao…