China And Covid: Aside from the lab-leak theory, Beijing s handling of the pandemic in the early months was problematic indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Obscene global vaccine profiteering by pharmaceutical companies
Last week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a private Zoom meeting of backbench Tory MPs, “The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed my friends… It was giant corporations that wanted to give good returns to shareholders. It was driven by big pharma.”
His obscene comments sum up the response of the ruling elite to the pandemic an opportunity for profiteering on a huge scale, aided and abetted by imperialist governments that have protected Big Pharma’s monopoly profits.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (credit: WSWS media) The reality is that the pharmaceutical companies were initially not interested in vaccine development. Zain Rizvi of the advocacy group Public Citizen told the
By Nicolas Poirot | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-03-12 11:55 Share CLOSE Nicolas Poirot, Air Liquide China President and CEO, at the 2019 Qingdao Multinationals Summit. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
It was in 1999 that I made my first trip to China, specifically to Shanghai, and I have traveled there many times since then, especially during the 10 years that I lived in Southeast Asia. But when I came here once again as the CEO of Air Liquide China in September 2019, I was amazed by how the city had transformed even in the last two to three years. The skyline of Lujiazui area in Pudong still takes my breath away every time I see it.
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A highly anticipated global inquiry, more than a dozen investigators, a fortnight of inspections at ground-zero of the virus that sent borders up around the world, and here we are.
Opting for a message of unity: Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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The WHO investigators said COVID-19 was likely to have been transmitted from bats to an intermediate animal host to humans. The virus was likely to have started in China, but may have also begun elsewhere. It could have begun in the Wuhan wet market, or it may have been circulating widely in the community in the weeks leading up to the first cluster.