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China reopens borders in final farewell to zero-COVID

CHINA: Travellers began streaming into mainland China by air, land and sea on Sunday, many eager for long-awaited reunions, as Beijing opened borders that have been all but shut since the start of...

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China reopens borders in final farewell to zero-COVID

New COVID-19 strain may be more dangerous, lab study shows

Can we afford another COVID-19 outbreak?

City of China Locked Down suddenly

Global COVID-19 deaths reach 1 million in 2022 - WHO

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New COVID-19 strain may be more dangerous, lab study shows

SOUTH AFRICA: A South African laboratory study using COVID-19 samples from an immunosupressed individual over six months showed that the virus evolved to become more...
Can we afford another COVID-19 outbreak?

Last week, Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Samitha Ginige stressed on the importance of obtaining whatever the next dose for COVID-19 as soon as possible by all eligible individuals...
City of China Locked Down suddenly

The Chinese authorities state that the "Zero Covid" policy program is continuing to be implemented to curb the spread of the Corona virus in China.Foreign media have reported...
Global COVID-19 deaths reach 1 million in 2022 - WHO

SWITZERLAND: The World Health Organisation announced Thursday that a million people had died from COVID-19 in 2022, calling it a “tragic milestone” when all the tools existed...

COVID-19 vaccine supply outstrips demand

FRANCE: After two years of racing to vaccinate the world against COVID-19, the number of available doses now surpasses demand in many areas.Yet a yawning gap remains in vaccination rates between the...
Saudi Arabia expands Hajj to 1 mn pilgrims, easing COVID-19 curbs

Pilgrims keeping social distance and wearing face masks, performing the farewell Tawaf around the holy Kaaba in the Grand Mosque after completing their extended Hajj, “Hajj Al Kabeer”, during the...
Omicron lasts three days less than Delta for boosted: Study

SWITZERLAND, US: People who are vaccinated and have had a booster shot against COVID-19 recover from symptoms from the Omicron variant more than three days earlier than those with the Delta variant,...
Europe’s COVID surge continues, Australia preps for 4th shot

FRANCE: French health authorities said the number of patients hospitalised for COVID-19 were down by over the last 24 hours to 20,616, but the number is still high on a week-on-week basis.France on...
Around 1.24 bn people in China fully vaccinated against COVID-19

CHINA,HONG KONG: Nearly 1.24 billion people across the Chinese mainland had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Friday, a Chinese health official said Saturday.Mi Feng, Spokesperson for the...
WHO exploring when and how to end COVID Emergency

SWITZERLAND: Public health experts at the World Health Organisation have begun discussing how and when to call an end to the global COVID-19 crisis, exploring what would be an important milestone...
WHO warns of ‘deltacron’ variant spreading in Europe

UK: The World Health Organisation has warned that a new COVID-19 variant, which is a combination of the previously identified delta and omicron versions, is spreading quickly in parts of Europe.The...
COVID study finds 18 million deaths, three times official tally

SWITZERLAND, UK: The pandemic’s death toll may be three times higher than official COVID-19 records suggest, according to a study that found stark differences across countries and regions.As many as...
Indian Army gifts 1,00,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Nepali Army

Indian Army on Thursday gifted 100,000 COVID-19 doses of 'Made-in-India' vaccines to the Nepali Army under the "Vaccine Maitri' initiative by the Government of India.The vaccines were gifted in a...
China to handle COVID-19 clusters in a targeted, science-based manner

CHINA: China will cope with local COVID-19 outbreaks in a “science-based, targeted” manner to maintain the normal order of life, according to a government work report released at the open of the...
New revised health guidelines from today

Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said health guidelines will further be relaxed and new guidelines will be announced today (5).He said that due to the COVID-19 guidelines, relatives were unable...
Omicron 40 per cent deadlier than seasonal flu: Japanese study

US: The omicron strain of COVID-19 is at least 40% more lethal than seasonal flu, according Japanese scientists, underscoring the potential danger of lifting pandemic curbs too quickly and...
New study explains how COVID steals our sense of smell

US: Few of COVID-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a well-known hallmark of the disease.COVID patients lose this sense even without...
South Korea’s deadliest day of pandemic amid omicron surge

SOUTH KOREA, INDIA,US: South Korea saw its deadliest day of the pandemic on Saturday, reporting 112 fatalities in the latest 24-hour period, as it grapples with a wave of coronavirus infections...
‘People in a vulnerable categories at risk from Omicron variant’

Health Authorities have warned that the COVID-19 Omicron variant may not have a significant impact on healthy people, but its high incidence rate places people in a vulnerable categories in a...