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China's major social media networks have censored critical United Nations posts about the People's Republic's zero-Covid policy. The posts in question were statements from the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, on Weibo and WeChat.

Von Ning Wang

The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked two Chinese manufacturers of Covid vaccines to release their vaccine patents, South China Morning Post reported. "We are in touch with the two big companies that have the vaccines approved by the World Health Organization," said Erika Dueñas Loayza, head of the intellectual property unit in the WHO division for access to medicines and health products.

Von Nico Beckert

The US published a supplemented version of its intelligence report on the origin of Sars-CoV-2 at the weekend. In it, the authors cite the possibility of a laboratory accident in the city of Wuhan as a possible scenario for the release of the pathogen.

Von Finn Mayer-Kuckuk