China Port City Imposes COVID-19 Restrictions
China’s Guangzhou city, a port city of more than 13 million people, on Saturday ordered more restrictions due to a rise in ...
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Chinese Scientists Developing Inhalable COVID Vaccine
Chinese state media report that scientists are developing an inhalable, fine-mist COVID-19 vaccine. The Chinese Food and Drug ...
FDA Approves Obesity Drug That Helped People Cut Weight 15%
Regulators on Friday said a new version of a popular diabetes medicine could be sold as a weight-loss drug in the U.S. The Food ...
UN Launches Decade of Ecosystem Restoration
The United Nations is marking World Environment Day with the launch of a decade dedicated to restoring the Earth’s ecosystem, ...
Latest NASA Supply Ship to Space Includes Newly-Hatched Squid
The U.S. space agency NASA said cargo on the latest supply ship headed for the International Space Station (ISS) includes newly ...
US Government Finds No Evidence Aerial Sightings Were Alien Spacecraft – NYT
U.S. intelligence officials found no evidence that unidentified aerial phenomena observed by Navy aviators in recent years were ...
WHO: Threat of Third COVID Wave in Africa ‘Real and Rising’
“The threat of a third wave” of COVID-19 in Africa is “real and rising,” Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health ...
Japan Donates More Than 1 Million AstraZeneca Jabs to Taiwan
Tokyo is donating more than 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines to Taiwan, Japan’s foreign minister ...
US Announces COVID Vaccine Donation to COVAX
The White House has announced it will deliver the bulk of its first 25 million donated doses of COVID-19 vaccine through COVAX, ...
Rate of HIV Infections in US Fell by 73% from 1981 to 2019: Study
New annual infections with HIV fell by 73% between 1981 and 2019, according to a new analysis by U.S. health authorities released ...
‘Lucky strike’ Pierces ISS, and NASA Reveals Plans for Venus
Space junk finally hits its mark. Plus, NASA now eyes Venus after its first major flight issue on Mars. VOA’s Arash ...
Bahrain Offers Pfizer-BioNTech Boosters to Those Previously Vaccinated with Chinese Shot
Just six months after receiving two shots of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, some people in Bahrain are being offered ...
ASMR Videos Are New Way to Fight Stress
YouTube videos that cause an autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, are likely something school-age kids know all about. ...
G-7 Health Ministers to Meet on Vaccine Sharing
Britain is hosting a two-day summit of health ministers from the Group of Seven nations, with a focus on sharing vaccines and ...
Slow to Start, China Mobilizes to Vaccinate at Headlong Pace
In the span of just five days last month, China gave out 100 million shots of its COVID-19 vaccines.After a slow start, China is ...
Science Chief Wants Next Pandemic Vaccine Ready in 100 Days
The new White House science adviser hopes that for the next pandemic, a vaccine will be ready in 100 days. Eric Lander tells The ...
Biden Aims to Vaccinate 70% of US Adults by July 4
President Joe Biden is launching a monthlong nationwide push to get 70% of American adults vaccinated by Independence Day on July ...
Biden Calls for a Country United by COVID-19 Vaccinations
U.S. President Joe Biden is concerned about the nation splitting into two groups: the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.”I ...
Hundreds of Lakes in US, Europe Losing Oxygen, Study Finds
Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found. ...
Zimbabweans Protest COVID-19 Vaccine Shortages
Hundreds of Zimbabweans protested Wednesday about a shortage of COVID-19 vaccines as the country awaits more doses from China. ...
Melbourne Extends COVID-19 Lockdown for Another Week
Authorities in Australia’s southern state of Victoria have extended a one-week lockdown for its capital, Melbourne, to contain ...
Australia’s MAVIS Super Telescope Aims to Outdo NASA’s Hubble
Australian scientists are leading an international consortium that is building one of the world’s most powerful ground-based ...
Another Devastating Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast for 2021
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns the United States and countries in the Caribbean and Central America to be ...
WHO Approves Chinese-Made COVID Vaccine for Emergency Use
The World Health Organization has granted emergency approval for the use of a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine for adults 18 and ...