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Deja vu in Hong Kong as virus restrictions spark panic buying
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
Hong Kong has followed mainland China in maintaining a strict "zero-Covid" policy that has kept infections low through targeted lockdowns and extensive social d...
Hong Kong imposes its strictest Covid curbs to date as cases soar
Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)
Like mainland China, Hong Kong has adhered to a staunch "zero-Covid" policy that has kept infections low through targeted lockdowns and prolonged social distanc...
Chinese scientists say new highly accurate virus test gives results within minutes
Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are widely considered the most accurate and sensitive for the virus that causes Covid-19, but they usually take several ho...
China locks down city of 3.5 million near Vietnam border
Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)
China, the only major world economy still sticking to a staunch zero-Covid policy, is on high alert for any outbreaks as it hosts the Beijing Winter Olympics. L...
WHO chief, Chinese premier hold Covid talks
Feb 05, 2022 (AFP)
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visiting Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, posted a picture on Twitter of the pair sitting with officials i...
New Covid infections in Hong Kong reach record high
Feb 05, 2022 (AFP)
Like mainland China and much of East Asia, Hong Kong has long followed a strategy of fighting the virus through contact tracing, targeted lockdowns and lengthy ...
New 'highly virulent' HIV strain discovered in the Netherlands
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
Their analysis, published Thursday in the journal "Science," showed that patients infected with what they call the "VB variant" had 3.5 to 5.5 times higher leve...
Scientists urge true Covid origins probe ahead of Olympics
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
Twenty scientists from Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, India and Japan published an open letter harshly criticising Beijing for preventing ef...
US Army to discharge soldiers who refuse Covid vaccine
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
"Unvaccinated Soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness," Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said in a statement. "We will begin involunt...
Pet owners go private to jet 'fur babies' out of Hong Kong
Feb 01, 2022 (AFP)
China remains one of the few places left in the world pursuing a strict "zero-Covid" policy, transforming Hong Kong, a one-time aviation hub, into a city where ...
Despite Covid, it's home or bust for China holiday travellers
Jan 30, 2022 (AFP)
Chen, 30, needs to get her nose or throat swabbed a grand total of five times to ensure passage home to eastern Zhejiang province and back. "I was not planning ...
Beijing reports highest Covid cases since June 2020 as Olympics loom
Jan 30, 2022 (AFP)
China will hold the Games in a strict "closed-loop" bubble as part of its zero-Covid strategy of targeted lockdowns, border restrictions and lengthy quarantines...
China quietly locks down area near Beijing with Olympics a week away
Jan 28, 2022 (AFP)
About 1.2 million people in Xiong'an New Area -- a new economic zone 100 kilometres southwest of China's capital -- are no longer allowed to enter or leave thei...
Hong Kong outbreak exposes flaws in 21-day quarantine policy
Jan 28, 2022 (AFP)
Like mainland China, Hong Kong is one of the few places left in the world still pursuing a zero-Covid strategy that has largely kept the virus at bay but left t...
Hong Kong shortens on-arrival quarantine from three weeks to two
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
Like mainland China, Hong Kong is one of the few places left in the world still pursuing a "zero-Covid" strategy that has largely kept the virus at bay but left...
Tests of HIV vaccine using mRNA technology have begun
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
This Phase 1 trial is being carried out in the United States among 56 healthy adults who are HIV negative. Despite four decades of research, doctors have yet to...
Coronavirus: Latest global developments
Jan 25, 2022 (AFP)
- Police probe Johnson parties - London's police chief says Scotland Yard is investigating several parties at Downing Street and in government departments durin...
Lockdowns hit Pacific islands as Covid-19 defences falter
Jan 25, 2022 (AFP)
Pacific nations, many just dots in the vast ocean, successfully used their isolation as a buffer to the pandemic when they closed their borders in early 2020. B...
China lifts Xi'an lockdown as Beijing virus fight ramps up
Jan 24, 2022 (AFP)
The historic city's 13 million residents had been confined to their homes since December 22 after the discovery of a Covid-19 cluster that grew to more than 2,1...
Athlete surveillance warnings cloud China's Winter Olympics
Jan 20, 2022 (AFP)
China hopes to pull off a successful, coronavirus-free Games that will burnish its international reputation. But the run-up has been fraught with political cont...
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