In a white, airy laboratory in Medicon Village, one of southern Sweden's largest science parks, chemist Ingemo Andersson holds up a thin, plastic inhaler, half the size of a matchbox.Her team is hoping this tiny product could play a big role in the global fight against coronavirus allowing people to take powdered versions of future vaccines at home."It's easy and it's really cheap to produce," says Johan Waborg, CEO of the firm, which usually makes inhalers for patien

A Hong Kong court convicted a former waiter of terrorism and inciting secession on Tuesday in the first trial conducted under a national security law that was imposed by China to stamp out dissent.The watershed ruling lays down a new marker in the city's changing legal landscape and confirms that certain political slogans are now outlawed in the international finance hub. Tong Ying-kit, 24, was charged with secession and terrorism after he drove a motorbike into three police off

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte hailed his signature drug war policy Monday, but lamented there was a "long way" to go in the controversial crackdown that has killed thousands of people.In his last State of the Nation address before stepping down next year, Duterte frequently went off script and struggled to follow the autocue as he railed for nearly three hours against communists, child abusers and corrupt officials.As expected, Duterte used the annual speech to boast about th

Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis:Iran Daily Cases RecordFor the first time Iran's daily caseload crosses the 30,000 mark in a new daily record for the country hit by the Middle East's deadliest outbreak.China CasesChina reports 76 new cases, the highest daily rise since January, including 40 domestic transmissions prompting authorities to test millions in eastern Jiangsu province. Australia Cities Hope Lockdowns are likely to be lifted in

Experts warn country faces rise in infectious disease even as it struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Before the pandemic, Mamik Nariati’s five grandchildren were given free immunisations for diseases like polio, mumps and Hepatitis B at their school in the city of Surabaya in East Java.“But since the online school started last year, there is no more immunisation programme,” she said.

China reported 76 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the highest daily rise since January, including 40 domestic transmissions prompting authorities to test millions in eastern Jiangsu province. Beijing has a zero-risk approach to the virus, which emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.

Here are the latest updates in the coronavirus crisis:Un-Jabbed May Face New Curbs In GermanyPeople who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 could be barred from restaurants, cinemas and stadiums if infections continue to rise in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff says.Global Protests Against Virus MeasuresMore than 100,000 people take to the streets in Australia, France, Greece and Italy in protests against lockdowns, compulsory vaccination plans and efforts to prod

Virus-wracked Indonesia said Sunday that small businesses and some shopping malls could reopen despite warnings that loosening curbs could spark another devastating COVID-19 wave, even as it moved to extend a web of restrictions launched this month.President Joko Widodo said measures imposed in early July would continue until 2 August as the highly infectious Delta variant tears across the Southeast Asian archipelago, which has been overtaking battered India and Brazil as the world's vir

Vietnam locked down eight million people in Hanoi on Saturday, the latest attempt to curb a serious coronavirus outbreak that has already forced a third of the country to stay home.Authorities reported more than 7,000 new infections across the nation on Friday – the third record number of daily infections in a week.The centre of the normally bustling capital was empty and shops were shuttered as the lockdown came into force, although people could still be seen on the streets in the outskirts

China has supplied over 10,000 COVID vaccines to a Myanmar rebel group operating near its southern border, its spokesman said Saturday, as Beijing seeks to halt the influx of cases from the coup-wracked country.Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military took power in February, with a resurgent virus wave striking with many hospitals empty of pro-democracy medical staff.The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), which has waged a decades-long insurgency in Myanmar's far north, has received 1