Could Covid vaccines be taken as a pill or as powder? 

Producing powdered versions of the Covid vaccines would make it easier to reach distant corners of the world, where refrigeration, electricity, and slow vaccination programmes delay the immunisation 

The debate over the origins of the coronavirus continue. 

And now a fresh row has erupted over virus research being carried out in China using US funds. 

China rejects a proposal from the World Health Organisation to return to Wuhan to investigate the origins of Covid-19. 

Chinese officials insist that laboratory leak is extremely unlikely and that researchers should instead make a priority of the ‘very likely’ possibility that the virus originated in animals. 

Some countries call it vaccine diplomacy, others vaccine assistance or ‘global public good’, but it looks that a few of them are taking advantage of the distribution of the vaccines to gain political power and more allies

Would this be the dawn of a new Cold War?

The official communication signed off by the leaders of the 30-member alliance, stated China’s ambitions and asserted behaviour present systemic challenge to the rules-based international order.

It’s been a year and a half since the pandemic started and engulfed the world, yet how the virus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan remains a mystery

According to Rhodium Group, a climate research organisation, China accounts for more greenhouse gases than all the world’s developed nations combined. 

Moderna is to supply 500 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine to COVAX, the WHO initiative which provides vaccines to poor countries 

The director of the China Centres for Disease Control, Gao Fu, recognised at a conference last Saturday that their vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates.”

China’s top disease control official said the efficacy of the vaccine produced by Sinovac in China is low and the government is considering mixing them to offer greater protections against COVID-19.

The CDC reported that people with heart disease and diabetes are at higher risks of COVID complications