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Taiwan offers to help China deal with COVID surge
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said the self-ruled democratic island is willing to provide assistance to help China deal with its Covid surge.
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Deaths attributed to COVID in China increase to 9,000 per day: Data firm
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
British-based research firm Airfinity has doubled the number of people it estimates are dying from COVID in China as the number of infections soar.
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China's crematoriums fill up amid rise in COVID-19 cases: Report
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise at a meteoric pace in China, crematoriums throughout the country are getting packed and people are forced to wait for hours to get their loved ones cremated.
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China shifts how it counts Covid deaths as crematoriums fill up
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to the latest guidelines from the National Health Commission, only those whose death is caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure after contracting the virus are classified as Covid deaths, said Wang Guiqiang, a top infectious disease doctor.
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China's suffers "double whammy" with rise in COVID-19 cases and economic c
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases and economic crisis in the country, China is stuck in a dilemma as the imposition of the zero-Covid policy is saving people's lives but at the same time, impacting its economy, effectively putting the second largest economy in a "double whammy," Inside Over r
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China's low Covid death count could just be data manipulation
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
China has reported zero deaths even after being hit by a critical Covid-19 outbreak again this year. This raises questions about China trying to manipulate the disease data
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China Covid outbreak: US concerned over new mutation
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said that the US "is concerned China might not be fully transparent about the COVID numbers, the cases, and also the deaths that we're seeing in China right now".
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Beijing reports first Covid deaths since easing of policy
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing on Friday reported the deaths of two former Chinese state media journalists due to Covid-19, the first since most pandemic control measures were lifted on December 7, reported Singapore daily Today.
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China announces first COVID death since May as cases spike in Beijing
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
COVID-19 measures were tightened in Beijing over the weekend as the local cases of COVID-19 rose to several hundred a day, which included infections with and without symptoms, as per the CNBC report.
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Tejasvi Surya distributes free tabs to 250 kids who lost a parent to COVID
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], October 23 (ANI): A total of 250 school children who had lost a parent during the COVID-19 were gifted with free tablets, school bags and a year's worth of stationery during Member of Parliament Tejasvi Surya's 'Bengaluru South School Leaders' Summit' in the ci
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COVID deaths lowest since March 2020, end of pandemic in sight: WHO
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 15 (ANI): World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Wednesday said that the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 last week plunged to its lowest since March 2020 and added that the end of the pandemic is now in sight.
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Govt must audit deaths due to Oxygen shortage in second wave, says Parl Pa
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 12 (ANI): The parliamentary standing committee on Health and Family Welfare has in a report recommended that the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare examine the Covid deaths due to shortage of Oxygen and ensure compensation to the families of the victi
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