Sat 14 January 2023: In response to accusations that it was hiding data, China has revealed roughly 60,000 fatalities among COVID patients since the beginning of December. The National Health Commission reported on Saturday that the “emergency peak” of COVID-19’s most recent surge appears to have passed. The death toll from December 8 through Thursday […]
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Wed 11 January 2023: Amid the spread of Omicron subvariant in the United States, World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Tuesday urged all countries to recommend their travellers wear masks on long-haul flights. Catherine Smallwood, a senior emergency officer of WHO for Europe said that wearing masks “should be a recommendation issued to passengers arriving from anywhere where […]
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Tue 10 January 2023: Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, says for now, government will not impose any internal restrictions as a result of the emergence of a newly found sub-variant of the COVID-19 virus. The first instance of the XBB.1.5 sub-variant was detected in South Africa in December and reported earlier this month. Phaahla explained […]
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Mon 09 January 2023: The Department of Health (DOH) says it is in consultation with scientists over a highly transmissible variant of the COVID-19 virus. This after media reports over the weekend said the country had found its first case of the variant. “[The department] has been alerted about this highly transmissible XBB.1.5 variant and […]
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Sun 08 January 2023: Following the government’s decision to relax Covid regulations, more top Chinese engineers and scientists have passed away in less than a month than they usually do in a year, according to a prestigious Chinese scientific body. Twenty leading engineers and scientists of the Chinese academy of Engineering have died less in […]
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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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