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China's Covid cover-up had huge help from Western elites: Report
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
China's Covid ambitions, to hide crucial data and avoid blame, could not have been accomplished without Western academics eagerly playing the useful idiot for Beijing, The New York Post has claimed in a report.
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Inbound travellers no longer require negative Covid PCR test: China
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
A spokeswoman for China's foreign ministry said, beginning April 29, people going to China "can" take an antigen test to "replace" the previously mandated P.C.R. test within 48 hours before boarding their flight.
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New XBB COVID sub-variants reported in China: Report
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
China from December 1 to April 20 reported 32,993 effective genomic sequences of domestic cases.
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China emerging as source of COVID-19, laboratory leak theory gaining tract
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
In the latest development, some international researchers analyzed the early data of the COVID-19 pandemic uploaded by Chinese scientists to foreign databases and have found traces of raccoon dogs during the spread of COVID-19 to humans.
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China's State Council headed for rapid decline as Xi sidelines Li Keqiang
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Once seen as a potential top leader, Li was deliberately kept out of the limelight for years so as not to outshine Jinping. At the same time, Xi accumulated increasingly more powers.
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"Without full access to information that China has, you cannot say this or
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"All hypotheses are on the table. That's WHO's position and that's why we have been asking China to be cooperative on this," he added.
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Coronavirus pandemic originated from illegally traded wild animals in Wuha
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A recently released report by Chinese investigators has described in detail for the first time evidence that illegally traded wild animals triggered the coronavirus pandemic, reported The New York Times.
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WHO accuses China of hiding data on coronavirus' origin
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
"These data could have -- and should have -- been shared three years ago," Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director general, said. The missing evidence now "needs to be shared with the international community immediately," he said.
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China to restart broad visa approvals halted due to pandemic
Updated : 3 years ago IST
While most other countries began reopening to international travel earlier, China only began emerging from its zero-Covid policies in late 2022, after protests broke out against the hardline restrictions.
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India emerges as US's new destination for "friend-shoring" pharmaceutical
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Given the recent economic liberalisation measures in India, the expanding alliance between New Delhi and Washington, and India's position as the "pharmacy of the world," the pharmaceuticals sector, whose significance was increased by the pandemic, is a good possibility
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North Korean defectors unable to receive treatment despite facing serious
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
North Korean defectors in China reportedly cannot receive treatment even if they are infected with the coronavirus.
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China's hospitals flooded with sick, elderly during Lunar New Year holiday
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to Chinese health officials, there was no infection "rebound" during last week's travel surge in the country.
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