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China imposes Covid-19 lockdowns for millions around Beijing
Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)
Nearly four million people in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, were ordered to stay home until the end of the week as officials rush to curb a small vir...
Hong Kong sport groups slam last-minute Covid caps
Aug 24, 2022 (AFP)
The rare public rebuke comes as Hong Kong's new government vows to reopen the international hub -- including for sports -- while maintaining strict controls und...
Two Covid scares cause mayhem in Shanghai
Aug 16, 2022 (AFP)
The country's zero-Covid strategy involves snap lockdowns and quarantines, sometimes over just a handful of cases, and the measures have sparked anxiety and ang...
China's ex-Covid patients live under 'dark shadow' of stigma
Aug 14, 2022 (AFP)
But four months on, she is still fighting to get her job back -- one of scores of recovering Covid patients facing what labour rights activists and health exper...
New test may predict Covid-19 immunity
Aug 12, 2022 (SPX)
MIT researchers have now developed an easy-to-use test that may be able to answer that question. Their test, which uses the same type of "lateral flow" technolo...
Dozens in China infected with Langya virus; Chinese medical portal censored over herbal remedy doubt
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
The infections were found in China's eastern Shandong and central Henan provinces, affecting 35 people, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medi...
China closes Tibet's Potala Palace after Covid outbreak
Aug 09, 2022 (AFP)
China is the only major economy still sticking to a zero-Covid strategy that uses snap lockdowns, mass testing and long quarantine periods to contain outbreaks....
Over 80,000 tourists trapped in 'China's Hawaii' after Covid outbreak
Aug 07, 2022 (AFP)
Tourism hotspot Sanya is a city of more than a million people on the southern island of Hainan, where 483 Covid cases were reported Sunday. All flights out of t...
Friendly skies? Study charts Covid-19 odds for plane flights
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
The study estimates that from mid-2020 through early 2021, the probability of getting Covid-19 on an airplane surpassed 1 in 1,000 on a totally full flight last...
Deal reached for generic drug to prevent HIV infection
Jul 28, 2022 (AFP)
The deal will see ViiV Healthcare, a subsidiary of British pharmaceutical giant GSK, allow selected manufacturers to produce generic versions of Cabotegravir LA...
Botswana hits 'historic' UN goal against HIV: report
Jul 27, 2022 (AFP)
The country has met the so-called "95-95-95" target on HIV diagnosis, treatment and viral suppression several years early, according to a study published ahead ...
China confirms top officials vaccinated as it seeks to reassure vaccine-sceptic
Jul 23, 2022 (AFP)
Using snap lockdowns, long quarantines and mass testing, China is the last major economy still pursuing the goal of eliminating outbreaks, even as its zero-Covi...
Macau to reopen casinos as Covid lockdown eases at weekend
Jul 20, 2022 (AFP)
The Chinese gambling hub had closed its casinos for the first time in more than two years as authorities ordered most businesses to shut in an attempt to contro...
Macau extends Covid shutdown, including for casinos
Jul 17, 2022 (AFP)
Authorities had announced a week of "static management" starting June 11 after recording more than 1,500 infections in the previous three weeks despite multiple...
Second mRNA booster significantly effective against Omicron variants
Jul 17, 2022 (SPX)
With the first booster, vaccine effectiveness against these variants was only 68 percent (lower than against previous variants) and declined to 52 percent effec...
Microparticles could be used to deliver self-boosting vaccines
Jul 17, 2022 (SPX)
In a new study, the researchers describe how these particles degrade over time, and how they can be tuned to release their contents at different time points. Th...
China Covid outbreak grows as Macau extends Covid shutdown
Jul 16, 2022 (AFP)
Using snap lockdowns, long quarantines and mass testing, China is the last major economy still pursuing the goal of eliminating outbreaks, even as the strategy ...
China locks down city of 300,000 over single Covid case
Jul 12, 2022 (AFP)
China is the last major economy glued to a zero-Covid policy, crushing new outbreaks with snap lockdowns, forced quarantines and onerous travel curbs despite mo...
Fresh Covid outbreaks put millions under lockdown in China
Jul 06, 2022 (AFP)
Health authorities reported over 300 infections Wednesday, with clusters found in the historic northern city of Xi'an -- home to the Terracotta Army -- as well ...
Chinese city of 13 million shuts down again to avoid Covid 'explosion'
Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)
China is the last major economy wedded to a zero-Covid strategy, deploying snap lockdowns, quarantines and travel curbs in a bid to weed out new infections. Xi'...
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