COVID-19 and SARS are both deadly – but different. SARS symptoms were quick to appear, making it easier to contain. Because health officials were able to contain it, the virus died off.
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Michelle Grattan talks with Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher (remotely) about the week in politics.
Preliminary results from a US trial show remdesivir may help in treating COVID-19. But the findings haven’t been peer-reviewed, and the results from other clinical trials have shown little effect.
In time of crisis like today, instead of blaming one another, countries should foster international cooperation.
A new study forecasts that thousands of miles of new road construction will cut through tiger habitat across Asia by 2050. Planning can make these projects more tiger-friendly.
Covid-19, like other major epidemics, is not unrelated to the biodiversity and climate crisis we are experiencing.
China rose to become the second biggest market for venture capital in the world. Then came COVID-19.
African countries should draw from past experience to put together plans to manage the post-COVID-19 tourism void
The world rightly expressed shock and dismay at Donald Trump’s suspension of US funding for WHO. To respond, other governments, funders and citizens are urgently needed to fill the gap.
China has embarked on ambitious reforms to modernise the People’s Liberation Army to be able to defeat the US in a potential conflict. But many challenges remain.
In the coming months, China will have the power to appoint or nix global UN investigators on freedom of speech, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention and health.
Australia’s call for an inquiry into the origins of the pandemic has been met with a rebuke from Beijing. China is ramping up its own narrative about the virus, making greater transparency impossible.
An analysis of the expressions used by Donald Trump to designate Covid-19 sheds light on his political calculations and on the evolution of his relationship with China in recent weeks.
Beijing is touting its role in the world and praising its autocratic governmental system and its huge countrywide surveillance network. Hawks in Washington aren’t impressed.
By providing assistance to many countries affected by the pandemic, the People’s Republic of China is seeking to create a diversionary tactic to quietly put increasing pressure on Taiwan.
Racism, xenophobia or insensitivity? The treatment of Africans in Guangzhou has sparked diplomatic anger.
If China hopes to protect its economic interests in Southeast Asia’s largest economy and improve its global image, it should help Indonesia during this pandemic.
Trump has staked his re-election on a strategy of making confident predictions about beating the virus and shifting the blame to ‘foreign’ elements.
Stressed animals are more likely to harbour new diseases because their immune systems are compromised.
It is not all democracies that struggle to deal with the coronavirus; it is those in which the people do not feel the system works for them.
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