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'Lucky to still be alive': Living with HIV for over 30 years
AFP, Published on 10/05/2023
» PARIS - When people were diagnosed with HIV more than three decades ago, it was considered a death sentence.
Putin's health: pivotal yet shrouded in uncertainty
AFP, Published on 17/06/2022
» PARIS - Baths in blood extracted from the antlers of Siberian deer. Excrements scooped up by loyal officials to evade analysis. Mysterious absences for emergency medical treatment.
Shanghai says 'zero-Covid' achieved but millions still in lockdown
AFP, Published on 17/05/2022
» SHANGHAI: Shanghai on Tuesday declared it had achieved "zero-Covid" across all its districts, sparking derision on social media as millions in China's biggest city remained under lockdown.
Some Shanghai residents sent out of city in overnight Covid raids
AFP, Published on 02/05/2022
» SHANGHAI: In the middle of the night, Shanghai resident Lucy said she and her neighbours were forced into buses and taken hundreds of kilometres away from the locked-down Chinese metropolis to a makeshift quarantine centre.
China megacity mass-tests, cancels flights after suspected Covid case
AFP, Published on 28/04/2022
» BEIJING: The Chinese megacity of Guangzhou cancelled hundreds of flights Thursday and launched mass testing of 5.6 million people after one suspected Covid case, as the battle to contain the coronavirus sweeps across the country.
Myanmar junta court convicts Suu Kyi of corruption
AFP, Published on 27/04/2022
» YANGON: A Myanmar junta court on Wednesday sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption, part of a barrage of criminal cases that could see the deposed civilian leader jailed for decades.
As virus cases surge, can China's zero-Covid strategy hold?
AFP, Published on 14/03/2022
» BEIJING - China, the country where the coronavirus was first detected in 2019, is among the last remaining devotees to a zero-Covid approach to the pandemic.
Covid tests ordered for 14 million in China's Tianjin
AFP, Published on 09/01/2022
» SHANGHAI: The northern Chinese city of Tianjin on Sunday advised its nearly 14 million people to stay home while it conducted mass Covid testing after a spate of recent cases, including two caused by the Omicron variant, state-controlled media reported.
Australian official rejects Djokovic vaccine 'blackmail' claim
AFP, Published on 01/12/2021
» MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic is not being "blackmailed" by Australian Open organisers, a senior official said Wednesday, insisting a requirement for players to be vaccinated was about safety.
Dutch Covid hotel saga raises quarantine questions
AFP, Published on 30/11/2021
» BADHOEVEDORP, Netherlands: Welcome to the "Hotel Omicron" in the Netherlands, where a couple of quarantine fugitives have just discovered that you can check out any time you like, but you can't leave.