Tag: Coronavirus
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China: After Zero-COVID | Coronavirus pandemic
Video Duration 04 minutes 21 seconds 04:21China: After Zero-COVID From: Between Us “How do you account for lives that might have been saved versus lives that have been ruined?” From its very first lockdown in Wuhan to the reopening of its borders, journalist Jaime Santirso has witnessed firsthand China’s COVID crisis. He takes us through […]
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Five-day COVID-19 lockdown imposed in Pyongyang | Coronavirus pandemic News
Reports of North Koreans panic-buying food ahead of lockdown triggered by rising cases of respiratory illnesses. North Korea has ordered a five-day lockdown of the capital Pyongyang amid rising cases of an unspecified respiratory illness, according to NK News. Citing a government announcement, the Seoul-based outlet, which reports on North Korea, said residents were required […]
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China says COVID outbreak has infected 80 percent of population | Coronavirus pandemic News
Prominent scientist says Lunar New Year travel rush unlikely to lead to a surge in COVID cases as most people have already been infected. The possibility of a large-scale COVID-19 rebound in China over the next few months is remote as 80 percent of the country’s population has been infected, a prominent government scientist has […]
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Is bias, not science, behind COVID-19 curbs on China travellers? | Coronavirus pandemic News
The recent imposition of COVID-19 restrictions on travellers from China by more than a dozen countries has left Chinese people feeling deeply unhappy at what some view as a selective application of science. Countries such as France, Italy, Japan and the United States have placed various conditions on travellers from China – including pre-departure negative […]
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Lunar New Year dilemma for China’s post ‘zero-COVID’ travellers | Coronavirus pandemic News
Chen Ling could barely contain her excitement as the bullet train from Beijing rolled into Zhengzhou East railway station in central China’s Henan province. It was an afternoon, just a few days before the beginning of this week’s Lunar New Year festivities, and the train was crowded but Chen Ling could not have cared less. […]
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Photos: Lunar New Year rush starts in China | Coronavirus pandemic News
Hairdresser Wang Lidan is making an emotional Lunar New Year journey from Beijing to her hometown in northeastern China – her first such journey in three years – after the government lifted a strict “zero-COVID” policy that kept millions of people at home and sparked protests. Referred to in China as the Spring Festival, the New […]
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‘Best thing that happened’: Chinese return home after years apart | Coronavirus pandemic News
As Vicky Liu prepared to return home to China to celebrate the Lunar New Year with her family for the first time in more than three years, she wondered how much would have changed. “The answer is a lot,” Liu, a 25-year-old postgraduate student in the United States who is from China’s northeastern city of […]
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What do we know about new COVID variant XBB.1.5? | Coronavirus pandemic News
A new Omicron variant XBB.1.5 is causing concerns among scientists as it is spreading like a wildfire across dozens of countries, with the UN health agency calling it the “most transmissible subvariant detected yet”. In the United States, XBB.1.5 now accounts for more than 40 percent of COVID-19 cases, sharply rising from 2 percent in […]
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China reports almost 60,000 COVID-related deaths in past month | Coronavirus pandemic News
From December 8 to January 12, deaths related to the virus in Chinese hospitals totalled 59,938. China has reported nearly 60,000 deaths among COVID-affected people since early December after complaints it was failing to release data. The toll from December 8 through Thursday consisted of 5,503 deaths due to respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 and […]
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What does China’s reopening mean for the economy? | Coronavirus pandemic
From: Counting the Cost China’s zero-COVID policy is over. Despite a surge in infections, the nation opened its doors to the rest of the world. Three years of citywide lockdowns and border closures in China have disrupted supply chains, squeezed businesses and caused widespread economic damage. Now, as Beijing joins the rest of the world […]
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UK politician suspended for comparing COVID-19 shots to Holocaust | Coronavirus pandemic News
Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen said the rollout of the vaccines was the ‘biggest crime against humanity’ since WWII-era genocide. A British politician from the ruling Conservative Party has been suspended for comparing COVID-19 vaccines to the Holocaust. Andrew Bridgen, MP for North West Leicestershire, said the vaccine rollout marked “the biggest crime against humanity” since […]
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China halts travel visas for South Korea, Japan over COVID curbs | Coronavirus pandemic News
China has suspended issuing short-term visas for South Korean and Japanese nationals, its embassies in Seoul and Tokyo said on Tuesday, in an apparent retaliation against COVID-19 restrictions imposed on Chinese travellers in the wake of a spike in coronavirus cases in the country. Seoul and Tokyo joined more than a dozen countries that have […]
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Hajj to return to pre-COVID numbers, Saudi Arabia officials say | Coronavirus pandemic News
During the pandemic in 2020, only some 1,000 residents were allowed to perform the Muslim pilgrimage. Islam’s annual Hajj pilgrimage will return to pre-pandemic levels this year after restrictions saw the annual religious commemoration curtailed over coronavirus concerns, Saudi authorities say. The Hajj, required of all able-bodied Muslims once in their life, represents one of […]
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China suspends short-term visas for S Koreans over COVID curbs | Coronavirus pandemic News
Beijing takes first retaliatory move against countries that have introduced new measures on arrivals from China amid a surge in the virus. China has stopped issuing short-term visas to South Koreans, its embassy said, after Seoul imposed travel restrictions on travellers from China amid concerns about the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. It is […]
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Thailand makes U-turn on COVID vaccination rule for visitors | Coronavirus pandemic News
Health minister says checking vaccinations was inconvenient and a panel of health experts had agreed to withdraw the new rule. Thailand has revoked an entry policy announced two days ago requiring visitors to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination, its health minister said, citing sufficient immunisation levels in China and globally. On Monday, Anutin Charnvirakul […]