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Top Chinese leader warns of 'complex and grave' job market due to COVID-19
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 10 (ANI): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang painted a grim picture of the job market in the world's most populous nation due to widespread COVID-19 lockdowns.
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China's COVID-19 outbreak might bring global inflation: Expert
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 6 (ANI): With a tremendous rise in COVID cases caused by the Omicron variant, China is going through its worst outbreak which will impact freight costs and global inflation, said a media report.
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Global air cargo demand drops over Russia-Ukraine war, Omicron concerns
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): A decline in global air cargo markets was witnessed in the month of March, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) data showed amid COVID variant Omicron's influence in Asia and the Russia-Ukraine war that is leading to a challenging operational bac
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Despite they know dangers of 'Zero-COVID' policy, still will not change, s
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 3 (ANI): President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China revealed that in a closed-door meeting with top-Communist Party of China (CPC) officials, they have made it clear that they know the dangers of the "Zero-COVID" policy and its impact on the economy but
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Beijing imposes strict COVID-19 restrictions amid holiday week
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 2 (ANI): In a major escalation of COVID-19 restrictions amid a surge in Omicron variant cases, Beijing has banned all restaurant dining, shut down Universal Studios and ordered residents to provide proof of a negative Covid test to enter public venues, a media report sai
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COVID-19: Possibility of new variants of Omicron in Delhi
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): With the latest spike of more than 1000 COVID-19 cases in the national capital in a single day, the health experts believed that possibilities of new variants of the Omicron are emerging and they are being sequenced.
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India reports 90 pc jump in daily COVID count, 2,183 new infections in las
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): After a steady decline in new COVID cases for the past several weeks following the third surge in January-February this year mainly due to the Omicron variant, India's daily COVID infections witnessed a jump of 89.8 per cent on Monday from yesterday's 1,
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China's hiding real COVID-19 deaths by masking cause of death
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], April 17 (ANI): Amid a massive surge in COVID-19 cases in China, Beijing is trying to hide the real death toll by masking the cause of death.
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China's COVID restrictions spiral into crisis for country, remarkably for
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 16 (ANI): As Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to step into a nearly unprecedented third term in power at the twice-a-decade Party Congress this fall, the COVID-19 controls are sparking a crisis in the country.
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South Korea reports 286,294 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], April 6 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea reported 286,294 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Tuesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 14,553,644, the health authorities said Wednesday.
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Threat of Omicron has not gone away from India: Health Ministry
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 21 (ANI): As the country reels under the prevalence of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Union Health Ministry's Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal on Monday said that the threat of the Omicron variant has not gone away from India adding that the country has done a c
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NTAGI recommends reducing gap between two doses of Covishield: Sources
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 20 (ANI): The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) on Sunday recommended the Union Ministry of Health to reduce the COVID-19 vaccine Covishield's duration of the second dose to somewhere between 8 to 16 weeks after the first dose in view of the o
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