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China logs nearly 13,000 Covid deaths in a week
Jan 22, 2023 (AFP)
The death toll came a week after China said nearly 60,000 people had died with Covid in hospitals in just over a month -- but there has been widespread sceptici...
Chinese turn to traditional remedies to fight Covid
Jan 20, 2023 (AFP)
President Xi Jinping has promoted traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) since the start of the pandemic, while health officials have hailed its "important role" in...
Xi 'concerned' over Covid cases in China's countryside
Jan 19, 2023 (AFP)
The Chinese leader also defended his zero-Covid policy -- lifted last month after crippling the economy and sparking nationwide protests -- saying it had been "...
Rural China's subsiding Covid wave suggests virus spread before reopening
Jan 19, 2023 (AFP)
China abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid policy in early December, and the explosion in cases that packed hospitals and crematoriums was widely attributed to the...
China back to 'normal' after end of Covid curbs: official
Jan 17, 2023 (AFP)
China abruptly dropped its "zero-Covid" approach last month after three years of enforcing some of the harshest anti-pandemic restrictions in the world. The mov...
Push to develop mRNA vaccine patches
Jan 17, 2023 (AFP)
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) said it would provide up to $4.3 million to biotechnology company Vaxxas to advance development of a ...
Teams selected to develop vaccine durability prediction tools
Jan 15, 2023 (SPX)
Warfighters must deploy to regions of the world that present immunological challenges due to endemic diseases not previously encountered, or where there are pat...
China reports almost 60,000 Covid-related deaths in a month
Jan 14, 2023 (AFP)
The government has been widely accused of underreporting the number of coronavirus fatalities since the abandonment of its zero-Covid policy. Only a few dozen d...
WHO calls for more Covid data from China
Jan 14, 2023 (AFP)
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the request in a conversation with Ma Xiaowei, director of China's National Health Commission, said a statement from t...
Japan protests China's visa halt
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
China on Tuesday said it would suspend the issuing of visas for Japanese and South Korean citizens in response to measures imposed by Tokyo and Seoul on arrival...
'Total mess' in China's rural east as Covid wave hits hard
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
Since China reversed its zero-Covid policy last month, a whirlwind of cases has crammed hospitals with elderly patients and sparked a free-for-all over limited ...
'Not necessary' to dwell on Covid death tally, Chinese experts say
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
China abruptly dropped its "zero-Covid" approach last month after three years of enforcing some of the harshest anti-pandemic restrictions in the world, unleash...
WHO seeks more China Covid data, praises US 'transparency'
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
The World Health Organization has repeatedly voiced concern that China's official statistics are not showing the true impact of its current surge in Covid cases...
China suspends short-term visas for S. Koreans over Covid travel curbs
Jan 10, 2023 (AFP)
Seoul introduced a host of measures for visitors from China last month, including visa restrictions and testing requirements -- joining more than a dozen countr...
Pentagon rescinds Covid-19 vaccine mandate
Jan 10, 2023 (AFP)
Austin wrote in a memo scrapping the mandate -- under which the Pentagon says more than 8,000 military personnel were discharged for refusing to comply -- that ...
China Covid surge not expected to 'significantly impact' Europe: WHO
Jan 10, 2023 (AFP)
"The ongoing surge in China is not anticipated to significantly impact the Covid-19 epidemiological situation in the WHO European Region at this time," Hans Klu...
90% of people in China province infected with Covid: official
Jan 09, 2023 (AFP)
Kan Quancheng, director of the health commission for central Henan province, told a press conference that "as of January 6, 2023, the province's Covid infection...
Workers clash with police at Covid test kit factory in China
Jan 08, 2023 (AFP)
Footage geolocated by AFP to an industrial park in the southwestern city of Chongqing shows people tossing crates at a group of uniformed men, sending a shower ...
Excitement at Hong Kong's China border as quarantine lifted
Jan 08, 2023 (AFP)
"I am going back because I don't have to undergo quarantine anymore," an elated Tan told AFP, clutching luggage containing a few boxes of fever medication for f...
Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg discourage travel to Covid-hit China
Jan 07, 2023 (AFP)
"We currently discourage non-essential trips to China. The reason is a peak in Covid infections and an overwhelmed health system," the German foreign ministry s...
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