China recorded its highest daily Chinese coronavirus tally in two years on Sunday, documenting 526 locally transmitted cases of the disease nationwide, the state-run Global Times reported Monday.
Liu Jiacheng, a member of China’s National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recently submitted a proposal to the body suggesting Beijing help fight human trafficking by establishing a “nationwide DNA database for kindergartens and primary schools as soon as possible,” the Global Times reported Sunday.
Chinese health officials said Monday they documented 526 new, domestically transmitted Chinese coronavirus cases across 13 provinces, the state-run Global Times reported.
Government officials in China’s southern city of Shenzhen recently launched “blanket searches” for people who may have recently traveled to the city from neighboring Hong Kong in an effort to contain allegedly imported cases of the Chinese coronavirus, the South China
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam urged Hongkongers to remain “calm” on Monday after rumors of an imminent citywide lockdown for mass Chinese coronavirus testing spurred people to panic buy and strip some local supermarket shelves bare, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported.
Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui — sentenced to three years in prison in December 2019 for “illegal medical practice” after using the CRISPR gene-editing system to alter the DNA of human embryos — may be “released” from prison in the “near future,” China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday citing unnamed sources.
The number of new births in Hong Kong fell to a record low in 2021, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday, noting the figure dropped below 40,000 for the first time in 56 years.
Communist Party authorities in China’s central city of Wuhan — the origin location of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic — locked down sections of the city on Tuesday to contain Wuhan’s most recent outbreak of the disease, the state-run Global Times reported Wednesday.
Authorities in charge of a public Hong Kong hospital separated an 11-month-old baby from her mother this week after the mother admitted her infant daughter to the facility for an unknown illness and the baby subsequently tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Wednesday.
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili — who has been imprisoned in Georgia since October 2021 on corruption charges he denies — launched a hunger strike on Monday to protest the Georgian government’s “treatment of him,” particularly poor medical care, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported.
Hong Kong’s government recently banned all “nonessential” people from attending live births at public hospitals across the city — including the baby’s father — citing a recent surge in local Chinese coronavirus infections, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Sunday.
Nurses in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) remained on strike on Monday for the sixth-straight day to demand a pay raise and set nurse-to-patient ratios, NSW’s South Coast Register reported.
The New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) warned Wednesday it was poised to deploy “Defence Force assets” to Wellington to disband an anti-coronavirus vaccine mandate protest near New Zealand’s parliament building after the rally pushed into its ninth consecutive day.
Ottawa police officers began distributing flyers on Wednesday threatening to arrest those they believe to be Freedom Convoy demonstrators.
Hong Kong is currently facing its “worst coronavirus outbreak” while under increasing rule by pro-Chinese Communist Party forces in the city’s government, the local news outlet Coconuts Hong Kong reported Tuesday.
Suzhou, a Chinese industrial hub located 49 miles west of Shanghai, shut down 15 of its highway entrances on Tuesday as city officials scrambled to contain a local Chinese coronavirus epidemic.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday celebrated the 2022 Winter Olympics’ first day without a new positive Chinese coronavirus infection since the Games began on February 4 in Beijing.
Breitbart News confirmed on Monday that the CBC is contacting Canadians whose personal details were leaked following a reported hack of GiveSendGo donor information related to a fundraiser for the Freedom Convoy.
Wayne, a Freedom Convoy supporter in Ottawa, told Breitbart News nobody should “suffer from isolation” or “be stigmatized” for personal medical decisions.
Chinese Communist Party officials in eastern China’s Suzhou city shut down most medical services and schools across the metropolis of 10.72 million people on Monday allegedly in an attempt to contain just eight new cases of the Chinese coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) shut down a road leading to the Pacific Highway border crossing — which connects Canada and the U.S. via their respective towns of Surrey and Blaine — on Monday in an effort to block anti-coronavirus vaccine mandate protesters from walking toward the U.S. border on foot, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.
The number of people using heroin under Kabul’s notorious Pul-e-Sukhta bridge — long synonymous with hard drug use — has increased since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, people living near the bridge told Deutsche Welle (DW) on Thursday.
The Chinese Communist Party recently issued an edict directing family planning associations across China to “intervene in abortions among unmarried people and adolescents,” the state outlet Global Times reported on Friday.
Health officials in the Canadian province of Ontario are expected to announce an easing of pandemic restrictions on Thursday that have prohibited schoolchildren from participating in extracurricular activities — including sports such as hockey and basketball — since September 2021, the Toronto Star reported citing anonymous sources.
Brian McCloskey, the chief medical expert of the 2022 Winter Olympics, told reporters on Tuesday “there is no sign of virus transmission” inside Beijing’s “closed loop” system for the Games despite a report by NBC News on Tuesday revealing 48 athletes and trainers have tested positive for coronavirus while inside the Olympic bubble.
David Freiheit, known as Viva Frei, said the “legacy media” and “politicians” are “outright lying” about the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
A socialist politician has criticised the destruction of traditional stores and the ’19th-century’ working conditions of Amazon.
“None of this is about racism,” Randy, a demonstrator in Ottawa, ON, told Breitbart News while demonstrating in support of the Freedom Convoy.
“Relying on only vaccines cannot contain [Chinese coronavirus],” Wu Zunyou, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s chief epidemiologist, told China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday.
“I HAVEN’T HUGGED MY MOM IN 2 YEARS!! STOP THE MANDATES,” read a sign held by a woman attending a Saturday demonstration in Vancouver, BC, in opposition to government edicts ostensibly issued for health and safety purposes related to coronavirus transmission.
The Bangladeshi Education Ministry extended an existing closure of its public and private schools this week through February 20 citing concerns about the spread of coronavirus, “raising eyebrows” among some observers as the decision coincided with the federal government’s easing of gathering restrictions for non-essential business events, such as trade fairs thronged by thousands of people, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.
Children in Japan are “recommended to wear masks when possible” to prevent virus transmission at daycare facilities, a Japanese government panel wrote in an official recommendation Friday, according to Kyodo News.
The South Pacific island nation of Tonga entered a Chinese coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday expected to last at least 48 hours after health officials in the remote kingdom detected Tonga’s first-ever community transmission of the disease on Tuesday in two port workers, Reuters reported.
Massive amounts of medical waste produced by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic have accumulated worldwide and pose an increasing “threat” to global public health, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) warned in a report published on Tuesday.
The 2022 Winter Olympics — set to take place in Beijing from February 4 to February 20 — will “relieve anxieties felt about the pandemic,” China’s state-run Global Times claimed in an op-ed published Sunday, referring to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, which originated in central China’s Wuhan city sometime in 2019.
Acceptance of coronavirus vaccines is about “being there for each other” and “defines what being a Canadian is,” leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that he will not meet with “conspiracy theorist” trucker demonstrators in Ottawa, ON, wearing “tinfoil hats,” distinguishing them from the Black Lives Matters protesters he felt comfortable engaging with.
Many things previously described as “misinformation” are “now accepted as fact,” Joe Rogan said after Spotify’s new “approach to COVID-19.”
Rwanda issued a federal mandate this week requiring all citizens and residents of the country to show proof of full Chinese coronavirus vaccination before they are allowed into any public spaces or events, Rwanda’s New Times newspaper reported Thursday.
Some Afghans starving amid Afghanistan’s dire economic fallout — a direct byproduct of the Taliban’s seizure of the country’s government last August — have been forced to sell their “children and kidneys” in desperate bids to earn money for food, Sky News reported Friday.
