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Kingdom detects first case of the new XAY.2 variant
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 07/01/2023
» The Department of Medical Sciences yesterday confirmed the first case in Thailand of XAY.2, a Delta-Omicron recombinant variant, one of nearly 350 known cases around the world.
Covid surge exposes China's healthcare gap
AFP, Published on 06/01/2023
» TANGSHAN, China: Understaffed and underfunded clinics stand half-empty in parts of the Chinese countryside even as hospitals in major cities heave under an unprecedented Covid wave — an illustration of the stark disparities in the country's healthcare system.
Covid strains from West more serious than from China, says virologist
Online Reporters, Published on 06/01/2023
» New coronavirus strains from visitors arriving from western countries could pose a higher health threat than older strains from tourists arriving from China, according to virologist Yong Poovorawan.
Too lax on Covid curbs?
Oped, Editorial, Published on 06/01/2023
» This Sunday, the Great Wall of Covid quarantine in China finally will be lifted, with millions of Chinese travellers set to make their first overseas trip in three years after an outbound travel ban that has been in place since January 2020.
Hong Kong-China border to reopen Sunday
Published on 05/01/2023
» Tens of thousands of people will be able to travel daily between Hong Kong and China from Sunday in a major easing of pandemic rules that kept the border mostly sealed for almost three years.
Hong Kong to resume hamster imports a year after mass cull
AFP, Published on 05/01/2023
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong will resume hamster imports later this month, officials said Thursday, nearly a year after some 2,000 pet rodents were culled at the height of the city's coronavirus outbreak.
Airlines blast ‘knee-jerk’ China travel curbs
Published on 04/01/2023
» The airline industry’s global lobby group has condemned national moves to introduce Covid-19 tests and other measures for passengers arriving from China as travel from the country resumes despite a flareup in the virus.
Bodies pile up at Chinese crematoriums as Covid surges
Published on 03/01/2023
» SHANGHAI: For five days the elderly Chinese woman’s corpse lay decomposing in the Shanghai house she shared with her family before a hearse finally arrived to take away her remains.
Subway traffic rise hints at Covid peak in China
Published on 03/01/2023
» Nearly a dozen major Chinese cities are reporting a recovery in subway use, a sign that an “exit wave” of Covid infections may have peaked in some urban areas.
Chinese state media seek to reassure public over Covid-19
Published on 01/01/2023
» WUHAN: Thousands of Chinese took to the streets to mark the New Year as authorities and state media sought to reassure the public that the Covid-19 outbreak sweeping across the country was under control and nearing its peak.