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Category: coronavirus

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  • coronavirus
  • EU

COVID wave looms in Europe as booster campaign makes slow start

 A new COVID-19 wave appears to be brewing in Europe as cooler weather arrives, with public health experts warning that vaccine fatigue and confusion over types of available vaccines will Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Oct 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • Russia

Russia sees largest COVID cases daily increase since April

 Russia registered 17,126 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the highest daily increase since April 2, the country’s anti-pandemic taskforce said in a statement. The taskforce said Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Aug 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • Japan

Japan urges regions to mount COVID fight as variant spreads

 Japan is encouraging regional authorities to take steps to contain a new coronavirus variant that has sent cases to record levels, but there is no plan for sweeping national measures. Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jul 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • coronavirus

Australia battles fresh Omicron outbreak as COVID deaths rise

Customers queue outside a Western Sydney chemist to purchase Rapid Antigen Test kits in the wake of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Sydney, Australia, January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Jaimi Joy Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Jul 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • USA

Covid Rises Across U.S. Amid Muted Warnings and Murky Data

Covid-19 is surging around the United States again in what experts consider the most transmissible variant of the pandemic yet. But something is different this time: The public health authorities are holding Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Jul 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • USA

Most of U.S. Population Now in Areas With High Covid-19 Levels as BA.5 Subvariant Spreads

Los Angeles County may reinstate an indoor mask mandate. More than half the U.S. population lives in counties where Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are high enough that people should wear Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Jul 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

China Steps Up Covid Tests as US Envoy Warns of Investment Chill

Residents queue for a Covid-19 test in the Hongkou district of Shanghai, China, on June 11. Bloomberg News China’s biggest cities are doubling down on Covid-19 testing in a bid Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • Europe

Covid hospitalizations rise in Europe as sub-variants fuel new wave

European countries are experiencing a surge in Covid-19 hospitalisations driven by sub-variants of the highly infectious Omicron strain, threatening a fresh global wave of the disease as immunity levels wane Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Beijing warns of ‘explosive’ COVID outbreak, Shanghai conducts mass testing

China’s capital Beijing is experiencing an “explosive” COVID-19 outbreak connected to a bar, a government spokesman said on Saturday, as the commercial hub, Shanghai,conducted mass testing to contain a jump Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

China digs in for permanent zero-Covid with testing and quarantine regime

Tough restrictions in scores of cities have driven the country to the edge of recession for just the second time in three decades. But even though measures have been eased Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus
  • North Korea

China Fears Wind Is Blowing Covid Virus in From North Korea

Officials in a Chinese city on the border with North Korea say they can’t figure out where persistent new Covid-19 infections are coming from — and suspect the wind blowing Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

China offers Covid vaccine insurance to win over sceptics of the jab

China has devised a new incentive to boost elderly vaccinations to levels that could finally allow the country to relax its zero-Covid strategy and revive the economy: insurance packages for Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • USA

Covid-weary Americans enter Memorial Day with little effort to contain a still-raging pandemic

For the third year, Americans are greeting the unofficial start of summer shadowed by the specter of the coronavirus amid rising covid-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country. The United States is Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • USA

Covid-weary Americans enter Memorial Day with little effort to contain a still-raging pandemic

For the third year, Americans are greeting the unofficial start of summer shadowed by the specter of the coronavirus amid rising covid-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country. The United States is Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

How Will China’s Covid Containment Policy Affect Emerging Markets?

China’s strict Covid-19 containment strategy is suppressing the country’s consumer demand and manufacturing output. The economic slowdown caused by this containment strategy poses a challenge for emerging economies that export Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

Pfizer warns of ‘constant waves’ of Covid as complacency grows

Growing complacency about Covid-19 and politicisation of the pandemic response will cost lives as the world is hit by new waves of the virus in the coming months, Pfizer’s chief Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

China’s bet on homegrown mRNA vaccines holds back nation

China is trying to navigate its biggest coronavirus outbreak without a tool it could have adopted many months ago, the kind of vaccines that have proven to offer the best Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • USA

Latest Covid-19 Wave Expands to More of U.S.

“We’ve got to do what we can to prevent infections,” said Ashish Jha, the White House Covid-19 response coordinator. “We’ve got to do what we can to ensure that infections Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

China diverts anti-poverty funds to Covid testing as crisis deepens

China’s cash-strapped local governments have been forced to divert funds from poverty alleviation and infrastructure to finance mass coronavirus testing as President Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy causes growing financial strains. Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • North Korea

N.Korea mobilises army, steps up tracing amid COVID wave

North Korea has mobilized its military to distribute COVID medications and deployed more than 10,000 health workers to help trace potential patients, as it fights a sweeping coronavirus wave, state Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Shanghai aims for June 1 return to normal as COVID lockdown batters economy

 Shanghai set out plans on Monday for the end of a painful COVID-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks, heavily bruising China’s economy, and for the return of Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • North Korea

North Korea’s Kim says COVID ‘great turmoil’, 21 new deaths reported

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Saturday that the spread of COVID-19 had thrust his country into “great turmoil” and called for an all-out battle to overcome the Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

Global Covid-19 Summit upstaged by Ukraine war, inflation

When the United States brought world leaders together last year to discuss how to end the pandemic, President Biden emphasized the historic scale of the problem. “This is an all-hands-on-deck crisis,” Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • North Korea

North Korea confirms 1st COVID outbreak, Kim orders lockdown

 North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record-keeping Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

WHO chief says China’s zero-COVID policy not ‘sustainable’

The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday China’s zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable given what is now known of the virus, in rare public comments by Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Half of Shanghai achieves ‘zero COVID’; city presses on with ‘unsustainable’ fight

 Shanghai officials said on Wednesday that half the city had achieved “zero COVID” status, but uncompromising restrictions had to remain in place under a national policy that the head of Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

WHO chief’s remarks on China’s COVID policy blocked on country’s social media

A United Nations Weibo post on the World Health Organization chief’s comments that China’s zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable was removed from the Chinese social media platform on Wednesday Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Shanghai disinfects homes, closes all subways in COVID fight

 Teams in white protective suits are entering the homes of coronavirus-infected people to spray disinfectant as Shanghai tries to root out an omicron outbreak under China’s strict “zero-COVID” strategy. City Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Shanghai tightens lockdown despite falling COVID cases

Authorities in Shanghai have again tightened anti-virus restrictions, just as the city was emerging from a month of strict lockdown due to a COVID-19 outbreak. Notices issued in several districts Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

‘Go home!’ COVID-hit Shanghai, Beijing tell residents to avoid social contacts

China’s two biggest cities tightened COVID-19 curbs on their residents on Monday, raising new frustration and even questions about the legality of its uncompromising battle with the virus. As authorities Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Analysis: Shanghai COVID crisis puts political spotlight on key Xi ally

If Shanghai Communist Party chief Li Qiang has been politically bruised by the city’s struggle to tame a COVID-19 outbreak that has infuriated residents and caused severe economic damage, there Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

‘Stop asking why’: Shanghai tightens COVID lockdown, Beijing keeps testing

Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China’s capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

China builds permanent COVID testing stations for life after lockdown

 China is setting up thousands of permanent PCR testing stations, with 9,000 already completed in Shanghai alone, as authorities seek to “normalise” tough pandemic controls even after the current round Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

Coronavirus pandemic far deadlier than official count, WHO estimate suggests

The number of people who died as a result of the coronavirus pandemic by the end of last year may be nearly three times higher than thought, according to estimates Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

COVID led to 15 million deaths globally, not the 5 million reported – WHO

Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as official data show, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, the most comprehensive look Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • India

India releases 2020 death data ahead of WHO COVID mortality study it objects

India registered about 475,000 more total deaths in 2020 than the previous year, government data released months ahead of schedule on Tuesday showed, as the World Health Organization readies its Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Beijing curbs public transport as COVID spreads in China

 The Chinese capital Beijing shut dozens of metro stations and bus routes on Wednesday in its campaign to stop the spread of COVID-19 and avoid the fate of Shanghai where Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • coronavirus
  • North Korea

North Korea mobilises office workers to fight drought amid food shortages

 North Korea’s office workers and factory laborers have been dispatched to farming areas around the country to join a fight against drought, state media reported on Wednesday, amid concerns over Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Beijing teeters on edge of Covid lockdown

The coronavirus pandemic is creeping closer to the halls of power in Beijing as authorities rush to avoid an uncontrolled Shanghai-style Omicron outbreak in China’s capital. Beijing is tightening coronavirus Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • South Africa

Covid-19 Live Updates: Beijing News and More

Coronavirus cases are surging again in South Africa, and public health experts are monitoring the situation, eager to know what’s driving the spike, what it says about immunity from previous Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Beijing Reopens Mass Isolation Center In Attempt to Avoid Broad Lockdown

The authorities in Beijing on Monday said that they had reopened a mass coronavirus isolation center, the latest in a raft of measures to try to stave off a citywide Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • USA

Covid-19 Cases Rise in the U.S., With Limited Impact

As new Omicron variants further infiltrate the U.S., a jumble of signals suggest the latest increase in Covid-19 infections hasn’t sparked a commensurate surge in severe illness even as risks Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • USA

Cases are rising in nearly every corner of the United States.

Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising in a majority of American states, in what appears to be the first widespread increase since the peak of the Omicron surge in January. Reports Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • USA

Fauci says U.S. is out of coronavirus ‘pandemic phase’

The United States is finally “out of the full-blown explosive pandemic phase” that has led to nearly 1 million deaths from covid-19 and more than two years of suffering and Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

China’s capital in race to detect COVID cases, avoid Shanghai’s distress

Millions of people in Beijing took their second COVID-19 tests of the week on Wednesday as the Chinese capital tried to keep an outbreak numbering in the dozens from spiralling Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • USA

More Than Half of People in U.S. Likely Had Covid-19, CDC Says

As fourth doses of Covid vaccines roll out, some are questioning whether the general population needs them. At the center of this debate are mysterious T-cells. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez explains Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Covid Live Updates: Testing, Lockdowns, and More News

Families in Beijing rushed to stock up on food. Supermarkets stayed open late. Residents endured long lines for mandatory testing. China’s stock markets plunged.A fresh coronavirus outbreak in China’s capital Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Panic buying in Beijing as district starts mass COVID testing

Beijing kicks off first of three rounds of mass testing in populous district Mass testing fuels concerns of shortages of food, supplies Chinese stock market down on fears Beijing may Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • coronavirus

Shanghai fences up COVID-hit areas, fuelling fresh outcry

Shanghai authorities battling an outbreak of COVID-19 have erected fences outside residential buildings, sparking a fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city’s 25 million Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

The Drive to Vaccinate the World Against Covid Is Losing Steam

Rates are stalling in most low-income countries well short of the W.H.O.’s goal to immunize 70 percent of people in every nation. Some public health experts believe the momentum is Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple

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