China Post conducts nucleic acid test on all overseas mail amid COVID-19 outbreak
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 ...
Flights from China’s Binhai International Airport canceled due to COVID outbreak
Flights departing from Binhai International Airport were canceled due to a Covid outbreak at Tianjin Airport. The epidemic continues in Tianjin, with one area of the Tianjin Free Trade Zone, Tianjin Airport Economic Area, adjusted to a high-risk area. In addition, all flights departing from Binhai International Airport were canceled. According to ...
White House drops mask mandate before Biden’s State of the Union address
Joe Biden's administration stopped requiring fully vaccinated Americans to cover their nose and mouth inside the U.S. Capitol Complex. A mask mandate ended in time for the president's annual message to Congress. The White House confirmed masks would no longer be required just hours before the 2022 State of the Union address ...
Many people flee Shenzhen’s Kexing Science Park after severe COVID outbreak
As Chinese media Sina News reported on Feb. 25, the Shenzhen Municipal Government said that on Feb. 24, Shenzhen had 13 new cases of COVID-19, including eight confirmed local cases and five asymptomatic infections. At 4:00 p.m. on Feb. 25, all the companies in the Kexing Science Park closed early after ...
Will life in California go back to the way it was before the pandemic: Unlikely if Gov. Newsom has his way
Life in California is just not the same since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Although the disease is entering an endemic phase, new rules and standards imposed will remain in the lives of its citizens, whether or not they agree. As California shifts the focus of COVID from a pandemic to an ...
Pharmaceutical drugs have polluted the world’s rivers, scientists warn in study
According to a recent study conducted in the United Kingdom, high river pollution due to pharmaceuticals is a much greater danger to global health than previously assumed, The Guardian reported. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the largest ever conducted. With 127 researchers ...
Hong Kong hospitals overwhelmed: Many patients lie outside waiting for treatment
On Feb. 17, there were 6116 new Covid confirmed cases, of which 6107 cases were local. Hong Kong's medical system is overloaded—many hospitals' emergency rooms are full, and many patients have to lie in outdoor beds waiting for treatment. As a result, many COVID-positive patients can only choose to take ...
China bans unauthorized lockdowns to support faltering services sector
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) instructed all regional authorities not to impose unauthorized citywide or district-wide lockdowns. The regulation is to control the country's coronavirus policies and enhance the country's faltering service industry, Hong Kong media outlet SCMP reported. The NDRC instructed all regional authorities not to impose citywide ...
Hong Kong’s COVID-19 outbreak: 6,063 new cases confirmed in a single day
Chinese media Huanqiu reported on Feb. 19 that Dr. Zhang Zhujun, head of the Communicable Disease Branch (CDB) of the Department of Health in Hong Kong, said that there were 6,059 local infections and the remaining 4 were imported cases. Of the patients, 2,769 were suspected of being infected with ...
Hong Kong considers national testing after Xi’s instructions, Chinese novelist raises concern
Amid Hong Kong's fifth wave of the Covid outbreak, the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region issued Xi Jinping's anti-pandemic instructions on Feb. 16. Accordingly, Xi required the Hong Kong government to "make it the overriding task to stabilize and control the ...
UK: Woman’s birth treated as a miscarriage, but babies survived birth at 22 weeks
A mother in England gave birth to twins at 22 weeks of pregnancy after doctors assured her that they couldn't be born alive since following laws supporting abortions, they state that a fetus is viable after 24 weeks, according to the Daily Mail. Up until the moment they ascertained the babies ...
California: Parents increasingly frustrated after announcement of end to facemasks in enclosed places but not for schools
Despite California's announcement of an end to the use of facemasks in enclosed places such as bars and restaurants, parents across the state are increasingly frustrated that the rule's lifting for schools continues to be delayed. On Monday, Feb. 14, during a virtual press conference, California Secretary of Health and Human ...
Hospitals and industrial parks in Suzhou closed due to pandemic
The pandemic situation in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, has become more serious, and authorities asked citizens not to leave unless necessary. The whole staff of Suzhou Industrial Park and Wuzhong District are nucleic acid tested. Suzhou Children's Hospital and many other hospitals were closed for emergency treatment. The city's primary and ...
Harvard scholar reveals China’s ‘Zero-Covid policy’ and how China lags behind US
Recently, an audio recording of a private meeting with Huang Wansheng, a Harvard scholar, was leaked. The conversation involved the intentions behind the Chinese regimes' "0-Covid policy" and how China lagged behind the U.S. Huang said in the recording, six months after the July 2020 outbreak, a Chinese official spent $27,000 ...
International athletes frustrated and helpless at Beijing Winter Olympics
Natalia Maliszewska, a Polish speed skater, stated that she was unexpectedly released from quarantine the night before the preliminary round but was later recalled to a quarantine facility a few hours before the competition after testing positive. Maliszewska tweeted, "I have been living in fear for over a week, and these ...
France’s only official representative cancels trip to Beijing Winter Olympics
Roxana Mărăcineanu, France's only official representative to the Winter Olympics in Beijing, announced on Feb. 8 via Twitter that she canceled her trip to Beijing due to a positive COVID-19 test. She posted on Twitter, "I have a heavy heart not being able to go and support our athletes and tell ...
California Plans Endemic Approach to COVID Response
State health officials will unveil a new COVID-19 response strategy next week; California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, Feb. 9. Several countries such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Denmark have lifted almost all pandemic restrictions while emphasizing that we have to learn to live with the virus, so they are ...
Pandemic situation in Guangxi is in stage of rapid rise
According to China Daily, there were 72 new cases of COVID-19 in the Baise City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region outbreak on Feb. 8. It brought the total number of cases to 180 in just four days. Currently, this region is working to stop the pandemic from spreading and reduce the ...
Positive for COVID: Papua New Guinea Prime Minister shortens Beijing visit
James Marape, Papua New Guinea's prime minister, tested positive for COVID-19 when he arrived in Beijing last week to attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games and had to cut short his stay. The Papua New Guinea Prime Minister's Office stated on Facebook that James tested positive for Coronavirus ...
Wuhan Civil Affairs Bureau conceals death statistics for the past two years
It has been two years since the first outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, towards the end of 2019. However, the Wuhan Civil Affairs Bureau has so far been deliberately hiding the official death toll as well as the statistics of population changes in ...
