Health authorities in northern India’s Kanpur city recorded 98 new cases of Zika on Tuesday as the community continues to battle an outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness that sparked in October, India’s Mint newspaper reported.
Singapore’s government — which currently provides free medical care to coronavirus patients — announced Monday it will no longer cover the costs of coronavirus-related medical bills for people who choose not to receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccine starting next month, Australia’s Seven News reported Wednesday.
School closures across Japan in spring 2020 did not prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, according to a new study published by the medical journal Nature Medicine, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported Monday. “Empirically, we find no evidence that
Government authorities in China’s northeastern Russian border city of Heihe declared a “people’s war” against the community’s latest coronavirus epidemic on Sunday, offering rewards of 100,000 yuan ($15,640) to people who “provide clues” to local officials that help them trace the outbreak’s origins, the Global Times reported Monday.
Venezuela’s socialist regime began administering a Cuban state-made coronavirus vaccine candidate to children as young as two years old on Monday, Venezuela’s state-owned La Radio del Sur reported.
About 2,000 people marched through Wellington to the New Zealand parliament on Tuesday to protest the country’s recent coronavirus vaccine mandate and strict lockdowns.
China’s government claimed Sunday the nation’s latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak demonstrates a need for children as young as three years old to be “urgently” vaccinated against the disease despite recent evidence that young children age nine and younger pose little risk of transmitting coronavirus.
Russia’s daily coronavirus caseload surpassed 40,000 for the third straight day Friday, with state health officials recording 40,735 new infections, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported.
China’s northwestern province of Shaanxi has outlined a proposal to allow residents nearly one year of paid maternity leave, Reuters reported Wednesday.
China’s latest coronavirus epidemic spread to two additional provinces on Thursday, meaning the outbreak has now affected 19 Chinese provincial areas since mid-October, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
China is currently battling a nationwide resurgence of its coronavirus caseload, with new infections detected in “more than half of its provinces and municipalities” in recent days, the state-run Global Times reported Tuesday.
The Minister of Labor of Brazil issued an ordinance on Monday prohibiting employers in the country from requiring proof of coronavirus vaccination from their workers for the purposes of “hiring or maintaining employment,” O Globo reported.
Beijing canceled half of all flights into and out of the city and locked down its most populous neighborhood — considered the “largest residential area in Asia” — on Tuesday to contain the spread of nationwide coronavirus outbreak that threatens to overtake the Chinese national capital just three months before it is scheduled to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
New Zealand’s government announced plans on Monday to ease coronavirus restrictions in Aukland despite state health officials earlier that same day recording the country’s highest number of new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.
Shanghai Disneyland shut down on short notice on Sunday and refused to allow any of the theme park’s 34,000 visitors to leave the facility until they were tested for the Chinese coronavirus after allegedly detecting just one new case of the disease in a woman who visited the site one day earlier, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday.
A spokesman for the Taliban terror group, which seized control of Afghanistan in August, said Friday the organization is “interested” in receiving Chinese coronavirus vaccines from Russia to administer to Afghan citizens, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported.
Chinese health authorities ordered two high-speed trains bound for Beijing to “urgently stop” on Thursday so they could place all passengers and staff under a seven-day quarantine, saying they suspected “close contacts of a positive COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] case were onboard,” the state-run Global Times reported Friday.
Singapore’s Health Ministry said Wednesday it was investigating an “unusual surge” in the city-state’s new daily cases of the Chinese coronavirus, which hit a record high of 5,324 earlier Wednesday. “The infection numbers are unusually high today, mostly due to
Singapore’s Ministry of Health announced Sunday it launched criminal investigations against the owners of a website that allegedly published false statements about the Chinese coronavirus in direct violation of the city-state’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), the Straits Times reported Monday.
China’s Health Ministry documented 50 new Chinese coronavirus cases on Tuesday, marking a record daily high for the country since its latest outbreak of the disease began on October 17.
A company in Thailand has allegedly shipped up to tens of millions of used nitrile gloves — some “visibly soiled … even blood-stained” — to U.S. companies since at least February, according to a CNN investigation published Monday.
Government authorities in Beijing announced Sunday they would postpone the upcoming Beijing Marathon — originally scheduled for October 31 — until an unknown date in an effort to contain a new outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus in the national capital, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
A teenage resident of Indonesia’s Aceh province claimed on Tuesday a local police station refused to accept her report of an alleged rape attempt on Sunday because she was not vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus, Indonesia’s Coconuts Jakarta news site reported Thursday.
The Communist Party in Lanzhou, the capital of northwest China’s Gansu province, sealed off the city’s residential communities and banned residents from leaving on Wednesday after allegedly detecting six cases of the Chinese coronavirus in the city of 4.4. million, the state-run Global Times reported.
Singapore, which has a Chinese coronavirus vaccination rate of 82 percent, recorded its highest single-day increase in new locally transmitted cases of the virus Tuesday with 3,994 infections.
Cybercriminals successfully hacked a coronavirus contact tracing app operated by the Malaysian Health Ministry on Tuesday, Kuala Lumpur confirmed Wednesday.
At least 19 Chinese provinces and municipalities are offering booster shots of coronavirus vaccines to combat a recent resurgence of China’s coronavirus caseload nationwide, the state-run Global Times reported Tuesday.
New Delhi has allegedly delayed committing supplies of Covaxin, India’s first state-made Chinese coronavirus vaccine, to a World Health Organization (W.H.O.) vaccine drive after the W.H.O. on Monday said it refused to “cut corners” in granting the inoculation emergency use approval, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Zimbabwe’s federal government confirmed on Sunday that any civil servants unvaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus will be denied the right to work and be paid starting on Monday, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
Playboy playmate Jessica Vaugn credited coronavirus lockdowns as driving her “red-pilling” and political awakening from a “mainstream slumber.”
New Zealand’s federal government announced a new mandate on Monday that will legally require healthcare workers and teachers to receive a full dose of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine by January 2022, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported.
Police in Berlin, Germany, recently launched an investigation into several suspected cases of “Havana Syndrome” at the capital’s U.S. Embassy, the German newspaper Der Spiegel reported Friday.
The White House said Friday that President Joe Biden’s renewed cough is the result of “allergies.”
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) recommended widespread use of the world’s first W.H.O.-approved malaria vaccine on Wednesday, advising that it be administered to children across sub-Saharan Africa.
A double amputee was mugged just hours after waking from a six-week coma and learning he had lost another leg to deep vein thrombosis.
Local government authorities in the Chinese city of Harbin euthanized three pet cats on Tuesday against their owner’s wishes after both she and the cats tested positive for coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported Wednesday.
An independent commission appointed by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) published a report on Tuesday revealing rampant sexual abuse of locals by at least 21 W.H.O. staffers responding to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from August 2018-June 2020, with one of the accused allegedly offering a woman sex in exchange for water.
China’s government on Monday vowed to “reduce non-medical abortion” in the country by 2035 as the world’s most populous nation continues efforts to boost its birth rate, which has declined in recent years.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is planning to probe the origins of the Chinese coronavirus a second time, following the organization’s failure to determine the virus’s provenance earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday.
Harbin, the capital of China’s northernmost Heilongjiang province, forbid all of its residents from leaving their homes on Wednesday as part of an effort by municipal authorities to contain the city’s first locally transmitted Chinese coronavirus outbreak since February.
