Chinese authorities have granted the first invention patent to a domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which experts said demonstrates the vaccine’s originality and creativity, and would enhance the international market’s trust in Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines amid the US’ groundless accusations of Chinese hackers trying to steal novel coronavirus data on treatments and vaccine development from
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Oil prices rose on Monday as China’s plans to ship in large volumes of U.S. crude in August and September outweighed concerns over a slowdown in demand recovery after the coronavirus pandemic and an uptick in supplies. Brent crude added 30 cents, or 0.7 per cent to $45.10 a barrel by 0410 GMT while U.S.
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Following outrage caused by the $500 million loans collected by the Nigerian government from China, the government of the Asian country has insisted that there is no motive to take over Nigeria’s sovereignty should there be any default in repayment. The DAILY VENDOR recalls that the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, while answering
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The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, has allayed fears over the signing of loan agreements with a clause that waives Nigeria’s sovereign immunity to China should she default in its repayment plan, assuring that President Muhammadu Buhari will at all times act in national interest. This is
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Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives made open clauses in a loan collected by the Nigerian Government from China that concedes the country’s sovereignty to the Asian country (China). Chairman of the House Committee on Treaties, Protocol and Agreements, Ossai Nicholas Ossai, laid it out while probing loans received by the government. It was acclaimed
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The White House said Thursday that China’s “slaughter” of protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989 has not been forgotten, urging Beijing to give its first accurate accounting of the bloodshed. “The Chinese Communist Party’s slaughter of unarmed Chinese civilians was a tragedy that will not be forgotten,” President Donald Trump’s press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said
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The World Health Organization(WHO) said Friday it hoped China would invite it to take part in its investigations into the animal origins of the novel coronavirus. “WHO would be keen to work with international partners and at the invitation of the Chinese government to participate in an investigation around the animal origins,” WHO spokesman Tarik
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened China with fresh tariffs as he stepped up his attacks on Beijing over the coronavirus crisis, saying he had seen evidence linking a Wuhan lab to the contagion. The diatribe from the Republican incumbent came as data showed the United States shed more than 30 million jobs in
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China on Tuesday went on the offensive against international criticism over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, accusing US politicians of “barefaced lies”. The new virus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year before spreading across the world, and countries including the United States and Australia have called for an investigation
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The African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU ECOSOCC) Nigeria office has urged China, France, Japan and India to write off Nigeria’s debt or allow a two-year moratorium on repayments. The Union also commended the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for granting a relief to 25 nations under its Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT)
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China has promised to share COVID-19 containment strategies, drugs and vaccines with Nigeria. The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Zhou Pingjian, said he and other Chinese diplomats would stay in the country and work closely with medical professionals to defeat the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking while presenting some medical items, including hand gloves, sanitisers, automatic hand dryers
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At least ten people were killed in the collapse of a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China, authorities said Sunday. Rescuers retrieved 48 people from the rubble, of whom 38 are still alive, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on social media. The building in the coastal city of Quanzhou had
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Around 70 people were trapped after a hotel collapsed in China’s eastern Fujian province on Saturday evening, officials said. Xinjia Hotel collapsed around 7:30 pm (1130 GMT) and around 23 people had been rescued by 9:00 pm, according to a Quanzhou city government statement. The 80-room hotel was recently converted to a quarantine facility for
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China on Sunday reported 573 new infections, the highest figure in a week after a dip. All but three of them were in Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital. The virus has spread to more than 60 countries around the globe, prompting the World Health Organization to raise its risk assessment to its
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As death toll from the deadly C0VID19 rises, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said on Saturday that five travelers from China tested negative to the Coronavirus also known as COVID19. Recall that the NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Friday that the centre had “two cases and tests are going on at the
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