Category: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Wed 28 December 2022: Authorities in United States is considering entry restrictions for Chinese visitors, as officials express concern about a lack of transparency about the country’s biggest COVID-19 outbreak. “There are mounting concerns in the international community on the ongoing COVID-19 surges in China and the lack of transparent data, including viral genomic sequence […]

Tue 27 December 2022: Bharat Biotech’s nasal vaccine will cost ₹ 800 ($9,66) plus taxes at private hospitals and slots can now be booked on the CoWin’s portal, the pharmaceutical major has announced. The nasal vaccine, iNCOVACC, will be rolled out in the fourth week of January. For large procurement by centre and state governments, […]

Sun 25 December 2022: China’s National Health Commission, which for the past three years or so has published daily COVID-19 case figures for the country, said it will no longer release such data from Sunday. “Relevant COVID information will be published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for reference and research,” the NHC said in a […]

Sat 24  December 2022: The Indian Health Ministry has given a fresh six-point advisory to the states to face any Covid emergency amid rising cases in neighbouring China. India has reported a handful of the BF.7 strain that’s running amok in China. All travellers coming from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand will […]

Sat 24  December 2022: The COVID-19 virus may have infected about 37 million individuals in China on a single day this week, according to a report from the Bloomberg news agency, which was based on information from the minutes of a National Health Commission meeting that took place on Wednesday. Overall, according to the estimate, […]

Thu 22  December 2022: With the surge in Covid cases in China and other countries, one of the most popular tourist attractions of the country Taj Mahal in Agra is put on alert, confirmed the District Health Information Officer in Agra. Domestic and foreign tourists come every day in large numbers to visit the Taj […]

Thu 22  December 2022: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that amid an ongoing resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic in China, hospitals across the country seem to be filling up. Addressing the media here on Wednesday, Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said: “In China, what’s been reported is relatively […]

Sun 18  December 2022: Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily quiet on Sunday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge in COVID-19 cases that has hit urban centres from north to south. China is currently in the first of an expected three waves of COVID cases this winter, according to the country’s chief epidemiologist, […]

Thu 15  December 2022: World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday called on China to share the requested data concerning Covid-19 in a bid to understand the origins of the virus. “We continue to call on China to share the data and conduct the studies that we have requested, to better understand […]