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Syria medics launch cholera vaccine campaign in rebel-held northwest
Mar 07, 2023 (AFP)
Health workers were going door to door to inoculate people in homes and displacement camps in the Idlib region, the war-torn country's last main rebel bastion, ...
China says 'lab leak' claims hurt US credibility
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox News on Tuesday that the Bureau has now assessed the source of Covid-19 was "most likely a potential lab incident in Wuha...
Hong Kong scraps mask mandate after almost 1,000 days
Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)
The city was one of the last places in the world to require face coverings in virtually all public settings, with everyone over the age of two required to wear ...
Hong Kong scraps one of world's last Covid mask mandates
Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)
Face coverings will no longer be required indoors, outdoors or on public transport, the government announced, ending a measure that has become a relic globally ...
US agency says Covid likely emerged from China lab leak
Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)
The conclusion -- noted in a classified report by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines's office, The Wall Street Journal reported -- marks a shift by ...
France drops Covid testing for travellers from China
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
Since January, visitors aged 11 and over travelling from China to France have had to present a negative test taken 48 hours before the flight to board the plane...
China's top leaders hail 'miracle' of zero-Covid reversal
Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)
A torrent of infections engulfed the world's most populous nation after the government did away with some of the world's tightest virus containment measures lat...
U.S. has 'blind spots' in its preparations for zoonotic diseases, experts warn
Feb 16, 2023 (UPI)
The new analysis was co-authored by Ann Linder, a researcher with Harvard Law School, and New York University professor Dale Jamieson, an expert on environmenta...
Original COVID-19 vaccine could attack boosters given too soon, Mixed results for latest Moderna mRNA flu trial
Feb 16, 2023 (UPI)
The authors of the new study said that while the boosters are important and necessary to fight off COVID-19 and its various strains, getting the boosters too so...
WHO chief to 'push until we get the answer' on Covid origins
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
Solving the mystery of where the SARS CoV-2 virus came from and how it began spreading among humans is considered vital for averting future pandemics. Yet an ar...
South Korea ends Covid visa restrictions for China travellers
Feb 10, 2023 (AFP)
In January, Seoul imposed travel requirements, including visa restrictions and PCR testing, on all visitors from China, as the world's most-populous country bat...
No new variants in weeks after China ended zero-Covid: study
Feb 07, 2023 (AFP)
China saw an explosion of infections after starting to lift its strict pandemic measures from early December, sparking fears the world's most populous country c...
China to fully reopen borders with Hong Kong, Macau
Feb 03, 2023 (AFP)
The semi-autonomous cities have both stuck to Beijing's zero-Covid strategy for nearly three years, splitting families, cutting off tourism and suffocating busi...
African nations commit to ending AIDS in children by 2030
Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)
The 2030 goal, which was announced by UNAIDS last year, was unanimously backed by representatives from the 12 nations gathered in Tanzania's Dar es Salaam. "All...
Beijing has hit 'temporary herd immunity': official
Jan 31, 2023 (AFP)
A torrent of cases has cascaded through the world's most populous nation since the ruling Communist Party abruptly ended its zero-Covid policy last month. The s...
The Covid-19 pandemic in 10 figures
Jan 30, 2023 (AFP)
- 6.8 million dead - Since early 2020, more than 6.8 million deaths from Covid-19 have been officially recorded, out of 752 million cases worldwide, according t...
France extends Covid tests for travellers from China
Jan 28, 2023 (AFP)
The tests had initially been decreed until January 31. Since the start of this year, travellers aged over 11 and coming from China to France have had to present...
Dozens of Covid protesters still behind bars in China: HRW
Jan 26, 2023 (AFP)
Protesters gathered in cities across the country in November to call for an end to China's hardline zero-Covid restrictions, in some cases also demanding greate...
China says Covid deaths down by nearly 80 percent
Jan 26, 2023 (AFP)
A wave of virus cases has washed over the world's most populous nation since Beijing abruptly ended its zero-Covid policy last month. Beijing's figures are beli...
'Not afraid of the virus': Wuhan turns page on Covid, three years on
Jan 23, 2023 (AFP)
Since Beijing ordered Wuhan sealed off in a bid to suffocate the outbreak in January 2020, Covid has devastated the planet, killing millions and plunging the gl...
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