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A British Airways crew has flown 2.5million pieces of PPE equipment back to the UK from China in a 28-hour non-stop mercy mission. Seven pilots and six crew made the trip to pick up the supplies and bring them back to be used by NHS frontline staff amid a nationwide shortage. Every seat on the … Read more
A new type of smart fabric developed in China heats or cools the skin of its wearer depending on the weather. Scientists took sugar from the skeleton of shellfish to form microscopic holes, which contain a chemical that absorbs and releases thermal energy. This allows the fabric to adapt to changing weather conditions, keeping its … Read more
A lead virologist and her team at a Wuhan lab warned of the possibility of SARS-like coronavirus outbreaks in China 11 months before the novel coronavirus epidemic ravaged the city. The ominous prediction came from a study carried out by Shi Zhengli and her colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology when they stressed the … Read more
Government pays BA to fly to China to bring back 2.5million face masks and gloves – crammed into empty passenger seats – for the UK’s frontline health workers BA was paid by the Government to bring vital PPE to the UK from China Seven pilots and six crew made the trip in a Boeing 777 … Read more
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has claimed that China ‘deliberately’ allowed the rest of the world to become infected with the novel coronavirus. He made the comments during an interview on Fox’s Outnumbered Overtime after it emerged that US intelligence officials are investigating whether the virus could have leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. Cotton said … Read more
Beijing today said the WHO has found no evidence coronavirus was man-made, fending off accusations that it was created in a Chinese lab. President Donald Trump said yesterday his government was ‘doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation,’ while US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Chinese ‘need to come clean’ on … Read more
Beijing today said the WHO has found no evidence coronavirus was man-made, fending off accusations that it was created in a Chinese lab. President Donald Trump said yesterday his government was ‘doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation,’ while US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Chinese ‘need to come clean’ on … Read more
These creepy-crawlies native to the forests of China use incredible camouflage to blend into their surroundings, from bark frogs on trees to dragonhead caterpillars on ferns. Photographer John Horstman, 52, said: ‘There are amazing living beings scraping out a viable existence in every niche and every corner of the world, including in the most developed … Read more
The first results from an international experimental US antiviral drug are promising, even as a trial of the same drug in China shuts down. More than half of a group of severely ill coronavirus patients from the US, Canada, Europe and Japan improved after taking remdesivir made by California-based Gilead Sciences. Originally developed as a … Read more
Face masks could soon be an everyday sight in Britain as health officials admit that they are reconsidering their advice for people not to wear them. In countries such as China, Japan and South Korea, wearing face masks when you’re ill is common – East Asia has learned from deadly virus outbreaks in the past. … Read more