2021-04-27
Having its own vaccine frees Kazakhstan from dependence on Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, which Kazakh officials had said is 'contraindicated for people from the COVID-19 infection risk group'.
2021-04-13
For much of the past year, the Kremlin has been more focused on winning the public relations aspects of the pandemic than on fighting the virus itself.
2021-02-16
Beijing's lack of transparency and selective data sharing have frustrated the team of international specialists tasked with probing the origin of the pandemic. No conclusive findings were made.
2021-02-02
The laboratory equipment includes items necessary for diagnosing and testing for COVID-19 and personal protective equipment.
2021-01-27
Beijing's spin took on more urgency in recent weeks as World Health Organisation (WHO) experts arrived in Wuhan to probe the origins of the coronavirus.
2021-01-21
One year after the Wuhan lockdown, Beijing is eager to promote its narrative of how it contained the pandemic, but history tells another story.
2021-01-18
Beijing's history of secrecy, disinformation and delays raises concerns that the team of World Health Organisation specialists will find a cold trail more than a year after COVID-19 first emerged.
2021-01-15
Dramatic Chinese and Russian rhetoric about an alliance of fraternal states and mutual support with Central Asian countries amounts to mere words on paper, observers say.
2021-01-07
Beijing barred WHO specialists from entering China at the last minute, highlighting the regime's continuing cover-up and attempts to whitewash the origin of the novel coronavirus.
2020-12-30
Trust in Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has plummeted after months of lack of transparency from health officials and obvious money-making priorities from the Kremlin.