China reports 13 new COVID-19 cases vs 20 a day earlier Reuters 3 hrs ago
SHANGHAI, April 30 (Reuters) - China reported 13 new mainland COVID-19 cases on April 29, down from 20 cases a day earlier, the country s national health authority said on Friday.
All of the new cases were imported infections originating from overseas, the National Health Commission said in a statement. The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, rose to 19 from 14 cases a day earlier.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China now stands at 90,655, while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,636.
(Reporting by Jing Wang and Emily Chow; Writing by Se Young Lee; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
Monoclonal antibody CT-P59 shows preclinical efficacy against South African SARS-CoV-2 variant
Researchers in the Republic of Korea (South Korea), The Netherlands, and South Africa have demonstrated the potential of the monoclonal antibody CT-P59 as an effective therapeutic for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the South African B.1.351 variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Soo-Young Lee from Celltrion Inc., in Incheon and colleagues, found that although the antibody exhibited reduced antiviral activity against the B.1.351 variant
in vitro, it demonstrated potent antiviral activity in ferrets when administered at clinically relevant doses.
A therapeutic dosage of CT-P59 significantly decreased viral load and infectious viral titer in both the upper and lower respiratory tracts of the animals, compared with untreated controls.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 20 new mainland COVID-19 cases on April 28, up from 12 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authorit.
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Russian and Chinese media are systematically seeking to sow mistrust in Western COVID-19 vaccines in their latest disinformation campaigns aimed at dividing the West, a European report said on Wednesday. From December to April, the two countries state media outlets pushed fake news online in multiple languages sensationalising vaccine safety concerns, making unfounded links between jabs and deaths in Europe and promoting Russian and Chinese vaccines as superior, the EU study said. The Kremlin and Beijing deny all disinformation allegations by the EU, which produces regular reports and seeks to work with Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft to limit the spread of fake news. Russian and Chinese vaccine diplomacy follows a zero-sum game logic and is combined with disinformation and manipulation efforts to undermine trust in Western-made vaccines, said the EU study released by the bloc s disinformation unit, part of its EEAS foreign policy arm. Both