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Indonesian President Joko Widodo attended a celebrity wedding in Jakarta on Saturday along with hundreds of other people, despite a government crackdown on large gatherings during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic over the past year.

President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa received the Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine candidate “Coronavac” in public on Wednesday to help dispel vaccine “conspiracy theories” that the shot is unsafe.

Thousands of people gathered together in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday to celebrate Holi, the Hindu spring festival of colors, in open defiance of anti-coronavirus mandates such as social distancing and mask-wearing.

Two more people died in Hong Kong this week shortly after receiving doses of the Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine candidate “Coronavac,” bringing the number of Hong Kong deaths unofficially tied to it to nine.

Coronavirus lockdowns are a preview of what would be permanently imposed on Americans if the Green New Deal were to be enacted as law, explained Marc Morano, author of Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse than You Think and editor of Climate Depot, on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption.

China’s state-run Global Times on Friday defended Hong Kong’s practice of forcibly restraining babies to hospital beds while in coronavirus isolation wards as an anti-epidemic policy in need of “more understanding.”

The Chinese Olympic Committee will provide Chinese coronavirus vaccines to athletes participating in the postponed Tokyo 2020 Summer Games, slated for July, and the Beijing 2022 Winter Games.

The number of marriages in South Korea plummeted to an all-time low in 2020 owing to changing attitudes toward marriage among younger generations and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.

President Joe Biden’s immigration policies are driving an increase in migration across the southern border, said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption.

An illegal human placenta trade is “flourishing” in eastern China, hundreds of thousands sold each year despite a nationwide ban on the practice in 2005, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper reported Tuesday.

Many countries face “unprecedented” pressure to refuse Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine candidate, the Kremlin alleged on Tuesday.

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has died at the age of 61 from a heart illness, Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday.

Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan seemed to imply that Tanzanian President John Magufuli was sick on Monday amid unproven rumors that he may have contracted the Chinese coronavirus since he disappeared from the public eye last month.

Chinese health regulators approved a new coronavirus vaccine candidate for emergency use in China on Monday without releasing clinical trial data on its efficacy rate or safety.

Lawmakers in Iraq passed a bill Sunday exempting manufacturers of Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidates from liability for possible damages from them.

Hundreds of protesters spilled onto city streets across Jordan on Sunday for the second straight day to demand government reform after an oxygen shortage at a state hospital in the city of Salt killed at least six coronavirus patients Saturday.

Slovakian Health Minister Marek Krajci was forced to resign on Thursday amid pressure from the country’s four-party coalition government, which threatened to disband last month in protest of his order of two million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V, a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate.

Polish government officials accused a recently expelled Russian diplomat this week of failing to self-isolate after testing positive for the Chinese coronavirus in January.

The Israeli military on Thursday announced it has become the first army in the world to achieve “herd immunity” as the result of an aggressive coronavirus vaccination campaign.

Tanzanian President John Magufuli is allegedly in India receiving medical treatment for the Chinese coronavirus, Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu told Reuters on Thursday.

Public displays of affection (PDA) are currently banned in parts of Manila, the Philippine national capital, under newly reinforced coronavirus restrictions, a Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesman said on Wednesday.

More than 75 percent of Taiwanese would not receive a Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine candidate, according to the results of a recent survey released Tuesday. The Taipei-based Association of Chinese Elite Leadership conducted the survey by telephone among 1,069 Taiwanese people aged

Countries should not require travelers to present so-called “vaccine passports” for international travel during the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, as such a demand would be unfair to nations with limited vaccination capabilities, a senior World Health Organization (W.H.O.) official said Monday.

The number of Hong Kong residents volunteering to receive a dose of Coronavac, a Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine candidate, has dropped from 90 percent to 72 percent following news three people died shortly after receiving the shot this week.

Joe Biden has a “free-for-all policy” for migrants at the border while imposing coronavirus restrictions on American travelers, noted Rep. Jodey Arrington.

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus along with his wife, Asma, the Syrian president’s office announced Monday.

Two Hong Kong residents died in recent days shortly after receiving doses of ‘CoronaVac,’ a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by China’s state-run pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech.

The Biden administration’s border policies will facilitate the spread of the coronavirus in America, Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) said.

GOP Senators will have to debate the Democrats’ pro-transgender Equality Act now that the far-reaching bill has passed in the House.

The Philippine government on Wednesday urged Filipinos to choose the Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine candidate CoronaVac, admitting that the public’s significant lack of enthusiasm toward the “Made in China” product has caused many to shun the shot.

Nigerians can now register online to receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccine, Nigeria’s government announced Monday, though Internet access remains scarce in the country, with less than half of Nigerians able use it.

Former President Donald Trump sharply criticized the Democrats’ unified push to get men into women’s sports during his speech at the CPAC conference in Florida. 

Rep. Kat Cammack told Breitbart News on Friday that Democrats’ proposed $1.9 trillion spending legislation primarily sends taxpayer funding to Democrat-run states with higher rates of unemployment.

A Chinese court has ruled that the printing of the words “homosexuality is a psychological disorder,” which appeared in a university textbook used in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, was “not an error,” Chinese state media outlet the Paper reported Thursday.

Jérusalem (AFP) — Just over half of Israel’s population has had at least a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the health ministry said Friday in its latest update. It said that 4.65 million of the country’s 9.29 million

Authorities on the Indonesian island of Sumatra charged four healthcare workers with blasphemy, a crime in the country, on Tuesday after they allegedly violated Islamic law by bathing a deceased coronavirus patient’s corpse despite not being her mahram, or unmarriable close family.