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Jan 11, 2023 10:26 AM IST China re-opened its borders on Sunday after three years of isolation under the world's strictest regime of COVID restrictions, which Beijing abruptly began dismantling in early December after historic protests.
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Jan 11, 2023 08:42 AM IST "It is regrettable that China unilaterally has taken visa suspension action for reasons other than steps for the coronavirus," Matsuno told a regular press conference.
- Jan 11, 2023 07:24 AM IST
In Europe, the XBB.1.5 subvariant was detected in small but growing numbers, WHO/Europe officials said at a press briefing.
- Jan 10, 2023 03:58 PM IST
Of the 23,000 respondents surveyed, 1000 per country, 79.1 per cent were willing to accept vaccination. This finding represented an increase of 5.2 per cent from June 2021, the study said.
- Jan 10, 2023 01:21 PM IST
Chinese consulates in South Korea will stop issuing short-term visas for visits, business, tourism, medical care, transit and personal matters from Tuesday, the Chinese Embassy in Seoul said in a statement.
- Jan 10, 2023 11:30 AM IST
The embassy will adjust the policy subject to the lifting of South Korea's "discriminatory entry restrictions" against China, it said on its official WeChat account.
- Jan 09, 2023 01:14 PM IST
Anutin Charnvirakul said requiring visitors to show evidence of vaccination was inconvenient and a panel of experts had resolved that it was unnecessary as enough vaccinations had been administered globally.
- Jan 09, 2023 11:04 AM IST
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 rate is 89.0 percent."
- Jan 08, 2023 11:08 AM IST
China's national influenza surveillance network recommended that the results need to be reported to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Institute of Virology and among entry personnel at land, air, and virology to trace new mutant strains in a timely way.
- Jan 08, 2023 09:08 AM IST
After three years, the mainland is opening its border with Hong Kong and ending a requirement for incoming travellers to quarantine, dismantling a final pillar of a zero-COVID policy that had shielded China's people from the virus but also cut them off from the rest of the world.
- Jan 07, 2023 01:42 PM IST
Vaccination following exposure to the Delta or Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 is likely to affect the quality, quantity and duration of immune responses.
- Jan 06, 2023 12:38 PM IST
XBB.1.5, one of the recent descendants of the highly-contagious Omicron, is spreading in the US. According to WHO, it’s the most transmissible version of Covid yet. Here’s all we know about it
- Jan 06, 2023 09:15 AM IST
From Sunday, Jan. 8, China will drop a requirement for inbound travellers to quarantine, the latest dismantling of its "zero-COVID" regime that began last month following historic protests against a suffocating series of mass lockdowns.
- Jan 06, 2023 07:59 AM IST
Covid news highlights: A review of all the currently available scientific literature, estimates that 52% of people who contract COVID suffer from sleep disturbances during the infection. The most common type of sleep disturbance reported is insomnia.
- Jan 06, 2023 07:31 AM IST
Nicknamed the "kraken variant" by some, it surged through the nation and has now been identified in at least 28 other countries, according to the World Health Organization. Is it more dangerous? Does it spread more easily? And how will it affect China’s Covid outbreak?
- Jan 05, 2023 04:42 PM IST
Germany is changing its entry rules for travellers from China and will in the future require at least a rapid coronavirus test to enter the country
- Jan 05, 2023 03:36 PM IST
The WHO's emergencies director, Mike Ryan, said on Wednesday in some of the U.N. health agency's most critical remarks to date, that Chinese officials were under-representing data on several fronts.
- Jan 05, 2023 02:33 PM IST
Of the 19,227 international travellers tested during the period, 124 were found Covid positive, they said, adding that all of them were put in isolation.
- Jan 05, 2023 02:27 PM IST
China has experienced a surge in infections and its hospitals and crematoriums have been inundated after Beijing last month wound back tight restrictions.
- Jan 05, 2023 02:03 PM IST
China reported five new deaths related to COVID-19 for Tuesday, bringing the official death toll to 5,258, very low by global standards.
- Jan 05, 2023 01:46 PM IST
The U.N. health agency received no data from China in the weeks after Beijing lifted its zero-COVID policy in early December, prompting some health experts to question whether it might be hiding information on the extent of its outbreak.
- Jan 05, 2023 11:09 AM IST
There were many incidents wherein doctors and nurses attempted or committed suicide in the world due to depression during the pandemic, Dr Vithyalakshmi Selvaraj, psychiatrist and chief medical officer of the Omaha Insomnia and Psychiatric Services, Nebraska, USA, told PTI.
- Jan 05, 2023 10:51 AM IST
The opening will bring the resumption of quarantine-free travel between the financial hub and the mainland although it would be done in a "gradual and orderly" way, China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said in a notice on Thursday.
- Jan 05, 2023 09:46 AM IST
China has rejected criticism of its COVID data.
- Jan 05, 2023 06:25 AM IST
The U.N. agency was preparing to meet Chinese scientists again on Thursday as part of a wider briefing among member states on the global COVID-19 situation as concerns grow about the rapid spread of the virus in the world's No. 2 economy.
