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An interview with Peter Daszak, an animal disease specialist, just after his return from an investigative research mission to Wuhan, the site of the original Covid outbreak, and surrounding areas. A team of experts selected by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the virus that caused the …
Read More »With Mission to China, W.H.O. Tries to Rehabilitate Its Image
A lead scientist said the research showed that the virus most likely spread naturally from animals to humans, playing down the possibility that it emerged from a laboratory. A team of World Health Organization scientists said on Tuesday in China that the coronavirus probably first spread to humans through an …
Read More »W.H.O. Team Finally Lands in China to Begin Tracing Coronavirus
Beijing has repeatedly impeded the beginning of the World Health Organization’s inquiry into the virus’s emergence, worried about drawing attention to its early mistakes. More than a year after a new coronavirus first emerged in China, a team of experts from the World Health Organization finally arrived on Thursday in …
Read More »China Places Over 22 Million on Lockdown Amid New Covid Wave
The country is experiencing its worst coronavirus flare-up since last summer, testing the government’s success in subduing the disease. When a handful of new coronavirus cases materialized this month in a province surrounding Beijing — apparently spread at a village wedding party — the Chinese authorities bolted into action. They …
Read More »Apple purges 39,000 game apps from China store to meet year-end licence deadline
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data, for enterprise technology decision-makers, presented by the #1 publisher in AI and Data Learn More (Reuters) — Apple removed 39,000 game apps from its China store Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a …
Read More »China Long Avoided Talking About Mental Health. Then Covid Hit.
The government has deployed extensive resources to address the spike in depression and anxiety. But social stigmas and long-term challenges remain. China’s fight against the coronavirus was mostly over, but Zhang Xiaochun, a doctor in Wuhan, was sinking into depression, convinced she had failed as a daughter and mother. She …
Read More »‘Netflix Of China’ iQiyi To Hire Over 200 Staff For Its New S’pore Office By 2025
Chinese streaming service iQiyi unveiled on Tuesday (December 15) its Singapore office at Robinson Road, which will serve as its regional headquarters. Kuek Yu Chuang, iQiyi’s vice-president for its international business shared that the firm currently has 25 employees, and it plans to hire over 200 staff in Singapore in …
Read More »Vaccine Unproven? No Problem in China, Where People Scramble for Shots
Ethan Zhang needed to get back to work. Work was in Ivory Coast, however, and since January the global coronavirus outbreak had stranded the 26-year-old translator in mainland China. Then friends told Mr. Zhang of a way he could get his hands on what might be the world’s most coveted …
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