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CORRECTED: Virus crisis gives throwaway plastic a new lease on life
Jun 18, 2020 (AFP)
Largely to blame is the coronavirus and the response to ward it off -- the masks, gloves and other plastic-based items, many of which are now ending up in our o...
US sues Chinese firm over half-million 'fake' N95 masks
Jun 05, 2020 (AFP)
In a complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, the department said Guangdong-based King Year Packaging and Printing shipped three batches of purpo...
As doctors go virtual, pandemic turbocharges telemedicine
Jun 02, 2020 (AFP)
In a matter of weeks, the coronavirus pandemic sparked a technological revolution in healthcare systems across the world that might otherwise have taken years. ...
China accuses US of selfishness, blackmail over cutting ties with WHO
Jun 01, 2020 (AFP)
Washington and Beijing have clashed repeatedly on different topics and on Friday Trump said he would sever ties with the UN health body, which he had previously...
Pentagon awards $2.2M deal to Hollingsworth and Vose for N95 masks, filters
May 28, 2020 (UPI)
The deal, announced Thursday and facilitated by the DoD Joint Acquisition Task Force, uses funds authorized and appropriated under the CARES Act passed in April...
Proposed health code app sparks anger in China
May 26, 2020 (AFP)
China has already developed apps that indicate an individual's likelihood of contracting coronavirus based on their travel history and whether they had come int...
France looks past Google, Apple for virus track; Tunisia launches app
May 20, 2020 (AFP)
The move, which leaves France relatively isolated in Europe alongside Britain and Norway, reflects differences on how such apps should be structured, who has ac...
WHO faces virus probe; Beijing says Trump 'shirking responsibility' to WHO
May 19, 2020 (AFP)
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said dealing with the pandemic must come first, however, as COVID-19 continued to unleash death and economic dev...
Beijing says Trump 'shirking responsibility' to WHO
May 19, 2020 (AFP)
The American leader has been locked in a bitter war of words with Beijing, alleging it covered up the initial outbreak in central China late last year before th...
Trump calls world health body 'puppet of China' as virtual assembly starts
May 18, 2020 (AFP)
"They're a puppet of China, they're China-centric to put it nicer," he said at the White House. Trump said the United States pays around $450 million annually t...
Pompeo says Taiwan exclusion 'further damages' WHO credibility
May 18, 2020 (AFP)
The WHO member states at the annual meeting delayed discussion on whether to grant observer status to Taiwan, which Beijing considers a province awaiting reunif...
US-China war of words clouds WHO meet focused on pandemic
May 16, 2020 (AFP)
The UN health agency, which for months has been consumed by the towering task of trying to coordinate a global response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, will ...
From producer to wearer -- lifecycle of the humble face mask
May 15, 2020 (AFP)
But where do they come from? Where are they mandatory? What do they cost and where do they end up? Contrasting cover-up rationales Wearing a mask has been quite...
China calls on US to pay its debts to the United Nations
May 15, 2020 (AFP)
"As of May 14, the total unpaid assessments under the UN regular budget and peacekeeping budget amount to 1.63 billion and 2.14 billion US dollars respectively,...
Hospital ship USNS Mercy leaves Los Angeles
May 15, 2020 (UPI)
Mercy departed the World Cruise Center Terminal of the Port of Los Angeles for San Diego, its home base, after treating a wide variety of patients. Several surg...
EU offers vaccine hope as Trump slams China over virus
May 14, 2020 (AFP)
World leaders past and present have insisted that any eventual vaccines and treatments should be made available to everyone free of charge, as the World Health ...
China admits coronavirus exposed 'shortcomings' in healthcare system
May 09, 2020 (AFP)
China has faced criticism both at home and abroad for downplaying the virus and concealing information about the outbreak when it first emerged in the central c...
Tests show heating is the best way to disinfect N95 masks for reuse
May 06, 2020 (UPI)
With N95 masks still in short supply in many parts of the country. Doctors, nurses and other professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic have been...
EU top diplomat urges medical supply autonomy
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
In an interview with European newspapers, including Austria's Die Presse, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said: "It is not normal that Europe doesn't prod...
US says Remdesivir shows 'clear-cut' effect in treating coronavirus
Apr 29, 2020 (AFP)
Anthony Fauci made the remarks at the White House shortly after the medicine's maker, Gilead Sciences, revealed it had met its primary goals in the largest and ...
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