Corona Updates

Hong Kong will stop requiring people infected with Covid to isolate as the government seeks to revive the economy. The isolation order will be lifted from Jan. 30, the city’s leader John Lee said in an address to lawmakers on Thursday.…
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The national capital on Monday logged no fresh cases of Covid-19 for the first time in 1,027 days — a major milestone in Delhi’s fight against a pandemic that has ensnared it for the best part of nearly three years and claimed more than…
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The nearly 60,000 Covid-related deaths China reported for the first five weeks of its current outbreak, the largest the world has ever seen, may underestimate the true toll by hundreds of thousands of fatalities, experts said. China’s…
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China said it had recorded almost 60,000 Covid-related deaths between December 8 and January 12, marking the first time China released death toll since its abrupt pivot away from the zero-Covid policy last month. Director of National…
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The WHO reiterated Wednesday the need for China to share more data on its explosive Covid outbreak, while praising Washington’s “radical transparency” in its efforts to battle a new sub-variant. The World Health Organization has repeatedly…
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The Hong Kong government is in talks with top pandemic advisers to declare Covid-19 an ‘endemic’ disease, leading to ease absolute Covid curbs including isolation norms for infected patients. Hong Kong in lockstep with China, shared a…
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China is experiencing a huge Covid-19 surge after years of hardline containment restrictions were dismantled last month. A growing number of countries are worried about a lack of data and transparency surrounding China’s outbreak. Here is…
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Some people in China’s key cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan braved the cold and a spike in COVID-19 infections to return to regular activity on Monday, confident of a boost to the economy as more recover from infections. Among those…
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Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that over 40% of Covid-19 cases in the United States are now caused by Omicron XBB.1.5 — a variant which has concerned experts. “Ironically, probably the worst…
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The World Health Organization on Friday once again urged China’s health officials to regularly share specific and real-time information on the COVID-19 situation in the country, as it continues to assess the latest surge in infections. The…
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