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China Reports Progress In Swine Fever Vaccine Trials

2020-12-31T17:11:51Z

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A widespread outbreak of swine fever wiped out about 40 percent of China's pig herd A vaccine developed in China for African swine fever, which devastated the country's pig herd and caused pork prices to soar, is progressing smoothly, according to results reported on Wednesday. The widespread outbreak of swine fever since August 2018 has disrupted the supply of pork in China, where it is a staple meat, with millions of animals culled. The disease wiped out about 40 percent of the country's pig herd, causing prices to rocket as officials struggled to stabilise supplies. Authorities have since been looking into means of preventing the disease, and the vaccine strain passed a national review in December 2019, according to a report by the China Science Daily posted on the website of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). In March, the vaccine was approved by the agriculture ministry for clinical trials in northern Heilongjiang province, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] central Henan province and northwest Xinjiang region. Clinical trials of the vaccine developed by the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute were seeing "smooth progress", according to the CAAS. About 3,000 pigs are involved in the ongoing trials, launched between April and June, with the animals in "good condition", said the report. Vaccinated sows have not shown abnormal clinical conditions or miscarriages, and the pigs have not made any toxic discharge of the [http://de.bab.la/woerterbuch/englisch-deutsch/vaccine vaccine]. Since immunisation, the fatality rate has been under one percent, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm] the immunised herd has not shown significant differences to the control group. The CAAS is expected to "accelerate the development of the vaccine" in the next step.

Fresh Test For Wuhan As Cluster Sparks Mass Virus Screening

2020-12-31T11:00:59Z

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A new cluster of cases has sparked mass coronavirus testing in the central Chinese city of Wuhan Nervous residents of China's pandemic epicentre of Wuhan queued up across the city to be tested for the novel coronavirus on Thursday after a new cluster of cases sparked a mass screening campaign. Lines of residents keeping their social distance formed at makeshift testing sites set up under tents in parking lots, parks and residential communities as rain trickled down in the metropolis of 11 million people. "This is a good thing. It's a way to be responsible towards others and to yourself," a 40-year-old man told AFP after completing the process. The man had already been tested 10 days before, but given Wuhan's history as the source of the virus and China's worst-hit city he welcomed a little extra assurance. "If you have the opportunity, wouldn't you do it again?" he asked. The previously unknown contagion emerged in Wuhan in late 2019, prompting the Chinese government to impose a tight lockdown on the city on January 23, isolating the industrial and transport centre from the rest of the country and confining residents to their homes. According to government figures more than 3,800 people have died from COVID-19 in the city, accounting for the vast majority of fatalities in China. Life is slowly returning to normal in Wuhan, where a coronavirus lockdown was lifted in April The quarantine was only fully lifted in early April, and life is slowly returning to normal. But Wuhan was given a fresh jolt when several new local infections emerged last weekend after more than a month in which none were reported. Fearful of a reliving the virus nightmare, officials have launched a drive to conduct nucleic acid tests on the city's entire population. Men, women, children and the elderly filed forward to medical workers in head-to-toe white protective suits and plastic face shields, who recorded their personal details before quickly jabbing a swab into the backs of their throats. - On edge - Some remained anxious. "I know this plan requiring the city to do large-scale testing serves as a basic safeguard. I wasn't planning to get myself tested," said a woman who did not give her name. China has largely brought its coronavirus outbreak under control, but it has been on edge about a potential second wave of infections "But the safety measures inside are really bad. (People) are too close and the testing person handled a lot of samples from people but I didn't see him wash his hands." China has largely brought the novel coronavirus under control, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] but has been on edge recently about a potential second wave of infections as it has lifted lockdowns and [http://photobucket.com/images/restrictions restrictions] across the country. Besides the six new Wuhan cases, virus clusters have appeared in recent weeks in the northeastern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang, which border Russia. President Xi Jinping told a Communist Party leadership meeting on Thursday that containment measures must be stepped up in Jilin, Heilongjiang and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm] Wuhan "to forestall resurgence of infections", according to the official Xinhua news agency. "We must never allow our hard-earned previous achievements on epidemic control to be made in vain," Xi said. With the virus taking hold in other nations, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm] China has barred most foreigners from entering the country. Despite the lingering concerns, pandemic-hardened residents of Wuhan have done their best to resume their lives. Dozens of people kicked up their heels to Chinese folk music on a promenade by the Yangtze River on Wednesday night, shrugging off the concerns of a new wave. Couples wearing masks pranced under street lamps, with the men leading the women into turns near a bridge lit with huge Chinese characters saying: "Go Wuhan". "I'm very happy (to be dancing outside)," said Qiu Jumei, a 53-year-old hotel waitress. "The atmosphere wasn't the same when I was at home and dancing alone. It was not fun," she added. "This is much better." burs-dma-lth/ch

China To Launch Mars Probe In Space Race With US

2020-12-29T17:39:51Z

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China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft is expected to launch for Mars aboard a Long March 5 rocket China aims to launch a rover to Mars on Thursday on a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space. The two countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are closest to send their probes, with China's mission due to lift off by Saturday and the US [http://www.msnbc.com/search/spacecraft spacecraft] on July 30. It will be a crowded field. The United Arab Emirates launched a probe on Monday that will orbit Mars once it reaches the Red Planet. But the race to watch is between the United States and China, which has worked furiously to try and match Washington's supremacy in space. The Chinese mission has been named Tianwen-1 ("Questions to Heaven") in a nod to a classical poem that has verses about the cosmos. It is expected to launch on a Long March 5 -- China's biggest space rocket -- from the southern island [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] of Hainan on Thursday, depending on the weather. Tianwen-1 is expected to arrive in February 2021 after a seven-month, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] 55-million-kilometre (34-million-mile) voyage. The mission includes a Mars orbiter, a lander and a rover that will study the planet's soil. "As a first try for China, I don't expect it to do anything significant beyond what the US has already done," said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The United States has already sent four rovers to Mars since the late 1990s. The next one, Perseverance, is an SUV-sized vehicle that will look for signs of ancient microbial life, and gather rock and soil samples with the goal of bringing them back to Earth on another mission in 2031. The Chinese mission is similar to NASA's Viking missions in 1975-1976, in that it has both an orbiter and a lander, McDowell said. Tianwen-1 is "broadly comparable to Viking in its scope and ambition," he added. - Catching up - After watching the United States and the Soviet Union lead the way during the Cold War, China has poured billions of dollars into its military-led space programme. China heads to Mars "China joining (the Mars race) will change the situation dominated by the US for half a century," said Chen Lan, an independent analyst at GoTaikonauts.com, which specialises in China's space programme. China has made huge strides in the past decade, sending a human into space in 2003. The Asian powerhouse has laid the groundwork to assemble a space station by 2022 and gain a permanent foothold in Earth orbit. China has already sent two rovers to the Moon. With the second, China became the first country to make a successful soft landing on the far side. The Moon missions gave China experience in operating spacecraft beyond Earth orbit, but Mars is another story. The much greater distance means "a bigger light travel time, so you have to do things more slowly as the radio signal round trip time is large," said McDowell. It also means "you need a more sensitive ground station on Earth because the signals will be much fainter," he added, noting that there is a greater risk of failure. China has upgraded its monitoring stations in the far-western Xinjiang region and northeastern Heilongjiang province to meet the Mars mission requirements, state news agency Xinhua reported last week. The majority of the dozens of missions sent by the US, Russia, Europe, Japan and India to Mars since 1960 ended in failure. Tianwen-1 is not China's first attempt to go to Mars. A previous mission with Russia in 2011 ended prematurely as the launch failed. Now, Beijing is trying on its own. "As long as (Tianwen) safely lands on the Martian surface and sends back the first image, the mission will... be a big success," Chen said.

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2020-12-29T17:39:47Z

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