Tag: #Novel Coronavirus

Live coronavirus can be imported through long-distance transportation and infect cold-chain workers

Left Review Online November 02, 2020

Live coronavirus can be imported through long-distance transportation and infect cold-chain workers

China has detected novel coronavirus on the packaging of frozen food, indicating that live coronavirus can be imported through long-distance transportation and infect cold-chain food industry workers who do not have effective protection, according to guidelines on COVID-19 prevention in the production and operation of cold-chain food issued...More

Virus fight is a test moment for UN

Left Review Online September 11, 2020

Virus fight is a test moment for UN

Editor's Note: With the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic still raging in many parts of the world, multilateral cooperation is seen as the sole solution. The United Nations (UN) is considered the pillar of upholding multilateralism. Whereas this year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of this international organization, a...More

Chinese company begins vaccine trials on minors; Xi’an denies inoculation

Hu Yuwei September 10, 2020

Chinese company begins vaccine trials on minors; Xi’an denies inoculation

A Chinese vaccine maker has begun COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials on minors to better understand the vaccine's safety and efficacy to a wider population, the Global Times learned on Tuesday. The China National Biotec Group (CNBG) of SinoPharm, China's leading vaccine producer with two inactivated vaccine candidates for...More

COVID-19 antibodies may decay faster than expected, resulting in ‘second infection’: Chinese epidemiologist

Zhang Hui and Liu Caiyu August 30, 2020

COVID-19 antibodies may decay faster than expected, resulting in ‘second infection’: Chinese epidemiologist

The COVID-19 vaccine that countries around the world are racing to acquire may not be able to provide permanent protection, and recipients who recover from the infection may become reinfected even after getting the COVID-19 vaccine, a Hong Kong virologist told the Global Times after a recent study...More

China’s daily COVID-19 testing capacity hits 4.84 million

GT Staff Reporters August 08, 2020

China’s daily COVID-19 testing capacity hits 4.84 million

China's COVID-19 testing capacity can fully meet domestic demand, authorities said on Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China's daily COVID-19 nucleic acid testing capacity hit 4.84 million at the end of July, with 4,946 institutions and more than 38,000 technical staff now...More

Birth of coronavirus still a mystery, blame game needs to be averted

Wen Sheng May 11, 2020

Birth of coronavirus still a mystery, blame game needs to be averted

The birth of the lethal COVID-19 remains a mystery, as French virologists have determined a male patient near Paris who was diagnosed with pneumonia on December 27, and actually was infected with the novel coronavirus. This is a stunning scientific find. The Frenchman, in his 50s who has...More

COVID-19 spread in emerging markets brings in new round of shocks to global economy

Left Review Online May 11, 2020

COVID-19 spread in emerging markets brings in new round of shocks to global economy

As the coronavirus pandemic is seeing an accelerating situation in emerging markets, the third round of hits to the global economy is shaping up and emerging market economies will encounter tougher challenges. Although the spread of the COVID-19 has seen flattened curves in Europe and the US, with...More

Read the past, know the future

Wang Wen May 01, 2020

Read the past, know the future

Former British prime minister Winston Churchill once said: "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." The COVID-19 pandemic has repeatedly broken people's previous assumptions. At first, people thought it was just a new SARS, then it was predicted to likely come...More

Unpacking lies that aim to deceive US into war with China: Exclusive with Grayzone founder

Liu Xin (GT) April 30, 2020

Unpacking lies that aim to deceive US into war with China: Exclusive with Grayzone founder

Editor's Note: The Grayzone, a US-based independent news outlet, recently published a story busting the conspiracy theory of COVID-19 escaping from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, adding that it is "the Trump administration’s Iraqi WMD." This is one of three parts of "US using coronavirus to escalate new...More

As pandemic spreads in the US, so do racism and xenophobia

Xin Qiang April 29, 2020

As pandemic spreads in the US, so do racism and xenophobia

While the coronavirus epidemic in China has been tamed, it has not stopped Western media, especially those in the US, from trying to exploit the crisis. They have now found another weapon to demonize China, calling it "racist" and "xenophobic." This hype has been constant over the past...More

GT investigation: Is China’s job market facing risk of social instability?

Left Review Online April 28, 2020

GT investigation: Is China’s job market facing risk of social instability?

Editor's Note: In the epic global struggle to recover from the coronavirus crisis, many observers agree that in China, unemployment has become the most pressing issue - more pressing than a historic 6.8 percent contraction in GDP - that needs to be dealt with urgently as it pertains to...More

Enhance ability to fight long virus battle: Chinese Media

Left Review Online April 26, 2020

Enhance ability to fight long virus battle: Chinese Media

The head of the World Health Organization has warned that "the worst is yet ahead of us" in the coronavirus outbreak. The warning came as many in the US and Europe are eager to go back to work amid the outbreak. The prospect of an outbreak remains uncertain....More

Nepal Govt extends suspension of flights till May 15

Left Review Online April 25, 2020

Nepal Govt extends suspension of flights till May 15

Kathmandu. The suspension of the domestic and international flights has been extended until May 15. The suspension was introduced as a measure to control the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-9) in the country and effective till April 30. The meeting of the high-level committee for the control of...More

Nathan Rich debunks anti-China political bias amid COVID-19

Bi Mengying and Bai Yunyi April 24, 2020

Nathan Rich debunks anti-China political bias amid COVID-19

"I've never said that you can't criticize China. Never. What I always say is if you are going to say something bad about China, especially if you have a big platform, you'd better have the actual facts behind you," said Nathan Rich in an interview with the Global...More

Trump needs to explain high COVID-19 death toll in the US

Li Qingqing April 23, 2020

Trump needs to explain high COVID-19 death toll in the US

US President Donald Trump is eager to restart the US economy, but the number of COVID-19 deaths is still increasing in the country. The US' high mortality rate in this epidemic has led to a serious humanitarian crisis. The number of confirmed cases in the US is still...More