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Chinese doctors asked to avoid listing COVID-19 as cause of death: Report
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A doctor at a hospital in Beijing was asked to not report COVID-19 as the primary cause of death.
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China resumes regular passenger traffic with Hong Kong despite Covid surge
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
China and Hong Kong resumed regular passenger traffic on Sunday, ending almost three years of self-imposed Covid-19-related restrictions, even as the second largest economy faces a huge spike in Covid cases.
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Chinese citizens move out with vengeance, prefer Covid infections for immu
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Their logic is if they get infected and are quarantined at home for 14 days, they will recover and get immunity from the virus.
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China releases new COVID-19 control protocol, calls for monitoring mutated
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The 10th edition of the virus prevention and control protocol has been released in accordance to the decision to downgrade the epidemic management from Class A to Class B.
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Hong Kongers empty pharmacies amidst worry over China reopening border: Re
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kongers are worried about the possible influx of Covid mutant strains from China after its border reopens this Sunday, the US-based Voice of America (VOA) reported, adding that Hong Kong's citizens have emptied pharmacy shelves once stocked with non-prescription drugs for alleviating sy
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China to cease criminal charges for breaching COVID-19 response measures
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
This comes as a major outbreak has ripped through China's urban centers in the wake of an abrupt relaxation of disease control last month, CNN reported. The World Health Organization (WHO) officials have become increasingly vocal in their calls for reliable information.
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Lack of Covid preventive measures in China may lead a 2020-like situation:
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
China is no longer adopting preventive measures to stop the country's Covid spread and is allowing Chinese nationals to move and travel as per their wishes, The Hong Kong Post reported, adding that this could result in a 2020-like situation when the pathogen spread across the world from W
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Tech giants suffer heavy restrictions under CCP's authoritarian rule in Ch
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The tech giants in China have been facing massive crackdown under the garb of transformation by the Chinese Communist Party of China (CCP) and its authoritarian rule in the form of a 'common prosperity' campaign emphasizes which not only imposes heavy restrictions on them but also impose
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Xi Jinping calls China's COVID-19 policy "rational and well-thought-out":
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Xi Jinping said that they have adopted the COVID response following a "science-based and targeted approach."
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COVID cases surge in China after govt abandons Zero-COVID policy: Report
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
COVID cases have surged in China after the government abandoned its Zero-COVID policy, according to CNN.
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40 pc of Chinese people infected with Covid in last month, say experts
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to an internal document of the Chinese CDC, 248 million people were infected by the coronavirus between December 1 and 20. As of now, the total number of Covid infections has reached 665 million globally while 6.69 million people have died, Asia Times reported.
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WHO chief asks China for rapid reliable data on COVID deaths
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
This comes as WHO held a high-level meeting with counterparts in China last week to discuss the surge in cases and hospitalisations. Subsequently, WHO's Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution and the COVID-19 clinical management expert network groups both met with Chinese
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