BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) - China's Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, the country's top research body on animal diseases, says it has developed an African swine fever vaccine that laboratory testing has showed is safe and effective.
The institute, which is overseen by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said the live vaccine with reduced virulance was created from a series of gene-deleted viruses using the country's first African swine fever strain as a backbone.
Source:https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-it-has-a-vaccine-for-african-swine-fever-that-has-decimated-its-pig-herds
City with China's largest current outbreak tightens lockdown
A city of 10 million in northeastern China made further restrictions on movement on Wednesday according to government officials, as it tried to contain what is now China’s largest outbreak.
Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, has 52 reported coronavirus cases. It has banned entry to residential zones by non-locals and will lockdown residential blocks housing COVID-19 patients for 14 days, state media reported. Those entering and exiting communities must “always wear a mask, check their body temperature and scan their individual health code,” the Provincial Civil Affairs Department said in a press release.
