Sat 07 January 2023: Due to the current COVID-19 outbreak in China, Germany advised against non-essential travel to China on Saturday, classifying it as a “threatening virus variant area” as of Monday, according to the Foreign Office. The office also explained on its website that the decision was made due to China’s “peak level of […]
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Thu 05 January 2023: EU countries are “strongly encouraged” to demand Covid tests from passengers coming from China, a crisis meeting of European Union experts decided Wednesday. The meeting also recommended that passengers to and from China wear face masks, that EU countries conduct random tests on arrivals and test wastewater from flights from China, according to a statement […]
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Wed 04 January 2023: The World Health Organization is “concerned” about the surge in COVID-19 infections in China, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, urging Beijing again to deliver rapid and regular data on hospitalisation and death there. “We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalizations and deaths, as well as more […]
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Tue 03 January 2023: Australia’s chief medical officer advised there was not ‘sufficient public health rationale’ for new travel rules. Australia has introduced COVID-19 testing for travellers from China despite the country’s top medical official advising against the move, a newly released letter shows. In a letter sent to Health Minister Mark Butler on Saturday, […]
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Mon 02 January 2023: Around a dozen countries have slapped fresh travel regulations on travellers from China, as the world’s most populous nation faces a surge in Covid cases following its decision to relax strict virus restrictions. Here is a run-down of the countries that have imposed mandatory Covid tests and other rules on arrivals […]
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Sun 01 January 2023: As China enters a “new phase” in its efforts to combatting the pandemic, President Xi Jinping has called for increased effort and unity. “At present, the epidemic prevention and control is entering a new phase,” he said on Saturday in his first public comments on COVID-19 since his government changed course […]
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Sat 31 December 2022: A report has said that the number of people dying due to Covid in Japan over the last three months is around 16 times higher than during the same period last year. According to the report by the Mainichi Daily on Friday (December 30), there were 11,835 virus-related deaths from October […]
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Fri 30 December 2022: The World Health Organization needs more information to assess the latest surge in infections in China, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. COVID infections have risen across China this month after Beijing dismantled its zero-COVID policies including regular PCR testing on its population. The United States, South Korea, India, Italy, Japan and Taiwan have all imposed COVID tests for travellers from China in response. […]
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Thu 29 December 2022: Japan on Wednesday (December 28) reported a record number of deaths. The nation recorded 415 COVID-19-related deaths, which is its highest-ever count for a single day. The national tally of newly confirmed Covid cases on Wednesday stood at 216, 219. This is an approximately four per cent jump from last Wednesday […]
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Wed 28 December 2022: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday issued a global “wake-up call” on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, which is observed annually on Dec. 27. “The world must come together. COVID-19 was a wake-up call,” Guterres said in his message for the international day. “The costs have been catastrophic,” he said, […]
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