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News 03/19/22, 03:44

Speaking at a meeting of China's top leaders on March 17, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China would stick to its "zero COVID-19" policy. Voice of America news cited state broadcaster CCTV as saying that Xi said China should "continue to put people and life at the forefront, stick with scientific ...

News 03/17/22, 16:41

On March 16, the People's Government of Yunnan Province reported that the total number of reported infectors in the local epidemic had exceeded 15,000, affecting 27 provinces, from March 1 to March 14. Domestic spreading cases caused by imported epidemics have increased significantly since the beginning of March, and the scope ...

News 03/15/22, 23:15

A large-scale lockdown across 'zero-Covid' China since Sunday, March 13, has raised concern about its economic downfall. On Monday afternoon, authorities announced that 24 million people in Jilin province would go into lockdown. Earlier on Sunday, they ordered 17.5 million residents in Shenzhen, the southern city of Guangdong province with a ...

News 03/15/22, 22:24

Students no longer have to cover their noses and mouth across the Golden State. The California State Legislature removed a school mask mandate on March 14. The decision gives students and staff the choice of whether to wear a face mask on school grounds since the rule was imposed in mid-2021. Some ...

News 03/15/22, 17:16

America's 44th president caught a highly contagious disease on March 13. Barack Obama confirmed he has the COVID-19 (CCP virus) disease. "I just tested positive for COVID," he said on Twitter. An itchy and irritated windpipe were Obama's only symptoms at the time of publication. "I have had a scratchy throat for a couple ...

News 03/15/22, 16:16

A Republican from Kentucky wants to strip the president's chief medical advisor of one of his titles. Sen. Rand Paul recently introduced an amendment that could potentially remove Anthony Fauci as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The senator proposes dividing NIAID into three separate national research ...

News 03/15/22, 03:10

According to The National Health Commission (NHC) 's report on Monday, Mar. 14, China claimed to have 1,337 locally transmitted cases, marking a fourfold increase from a week ago. CCTV, a state-run mouthpiece media, reported on Mar. 13 that the outbreak had exposed shortcomings and loopholes in epidemic prevention and control ...

News 03/15/22, 03:08

The COVID-19 epidemic broke out in many provinces in mainland China, and now it also spreads to Chongqing (重庆) city. The majority were students of Chongqing City Management College (重庆城市管理职业学院学生), and the Chongqing campuses were later closed for management. According to CCTV news, Chongqing (重庆) city conducted a press briefing on ...

News 03/15/22, 01:57

The South China Morning Post citing data from the National Health Commission (NHC), reported 1,337 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 in China on Monday, March 14, an increase of almost fourfold from a week ago. Due to the COVID fast-spreading situation, the China Development Forum, a high-level business conference in Beijing ...

News 03/12/22, 01:09

According to Chinese-language media Xin Tang Ren, the Covid-19 epidemic spread to 67 locations (cities and districts) throughout 23 provinces on the mainland during the time China was holding the “Two Sessions” meetings. The cases reported were mainly of patients with mild symptoms and asymptomatic patients as well. The number of cases ...

News 03/11/22, 22:50

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes are slated for release in Florida and California with the goal of eradicating disease-carrying mosquitoes. The news has sparked concern and controversy among health professionals and environmental advocates.   The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the release of more than 2 billion male mosquitoes in Florida and ...

News 03/11/22, 03:37

China's National Health Commission said on Thursday, March 10 that the Chinese mainland March 9 reported 402 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, which nearly doubled the daily count from a day earlier. The National Health Commission said in its daily report that the majority of Wednesday's local symptomatic infections were found in ...

News 03/10/22, 16:35

In Houston, Texas, a pediatric hospital announced that it would no longer perform hormone therapies for transgender children. The action came in response to recent efforts by Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton indicating that they constitute abusive practices, citing state law. In February, according to CNN, Gov. Greg ...

News 03/09/22, 23:49

The Shaanxi 陕西 Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control Press Conference announced on March 8, patients in this round of epidemic in Shaanxi Province who were infected with the BA.2 evolutionary branch of Omicron variant strain. The branch spreads faster and is more infectious, and the current round of the epidemic ...

News 03/09/22, 01:22

According to Xing Hua Net, Hong Kong confirmed 37,529 new Covid-19 cases on March 5. At a press conference on the epidemic, Li Liye, the Hospital Authority's Chief Administrative Manager, announced that 150 more patients died in the previous day, ranging from 32 to 105 years old, with 90 males and ...

News 03/08/22, 20:44

The fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong continues to advance on Monday, March 7. According to data by Worldometers, the death rates surged more than three-fold from February 28, climbing from 85 cases to 280 cases. On that day, the average death rate per 1 million people in ...

News 03/07/22, 19:56

Currently, the epidemic in China is spreading rapidly and becoming more serious. According to a Jilin (吉林) City, Jilin Province report, on March 6, from 00:00 on the 7th to the 13th, the Jilin City Epidemic Prevention and Control Command decided to strengthen the epidemic further control measures in urban ...

News 03/05/22, 00:11

Shanghai has lately added several local confirmed cases, according to the official report released on March 3. The majority of the cases concentrated in the Putuo and Baoshan districts. As Chinese-language media Apollo reported on March 4, the Songjiang District was classified as a medium-risk area, with many hospitals announcing ...

News 03/02/22, 17:42

On Monday, Guangdong Province added 31 new confirmed COVID cases, including 23 in Shenzhen, seven in Dongguan, and one in Zhongshan, Sina reported. In addition, there were 25 new cases of indigenous asymptomatic infections, with five cases in Shenzhen and 20 cases in Dongguan. There are currently 786 cases in Guangdong's ...

News 03/01/22, 18:24

State-owned China Post Group Corporation said they were nucleic acid testing overseas mail and parcels to prevent possible transmission of COVID-19 infections. Fifteen provinces and municipalities reported new Covid-19 cases, South China Morning Post reported on March 1. Tao Mu of China Post in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, told CCTV that mail ...