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Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported three new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, taking the total tally to 11,821.
Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 vaccination in the country.
Taiwan on Friday confirmed 180 new local COVID-19 cases, prompting authorities to raise the COVID-19 alert level for Taipei and New Taipei cities to Level 3, local disease monitoring agency said Saturday.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India rose to 24,372,907 and the death toll reached 266,207 on Saturday morning, India's federal health ministry said.
China has approved one more inactivated COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, according to a recent announcement.
Six people have been confirmed dead, and 218 others injured after a tornado on Friday night walloped Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, government sources said.
The global economic outlook has improved in recent months, but uncertainty remains very high, Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), told a forum here on Friday.
Brazil on Friday reported 2,211 more deaths from COVID-19, raising the national count to 432,628, the Ministry of Health said.
Northeast China's Liaoning Province on Friday reported two confirmed cases of COVID-19 and three asymptomatic carriers, all locally transmitted.
Chinese inactivated COVID-19 vaccines have proved effective against several mutated strains of COVID-19, a Chinese health expert said on Friday.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 rocked Indonesia's western province of North Sumatra on Friday, but did not potentially trigger a tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency said here.
China's National Health Commission has dispatched a team of experts to east China's Anhui Province after new locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 were reported on Thursday.
Hong Kong reported no new local COVID-19 infection on Friday, showing the epidemic situation remained under control in the international financial hub.
The State Council has pledged to beef up financial support to businesses hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, with steps to offer tailor-made financial services and provide funding that is more easily accessible to smaller firms.
China's domestic air passenger trips reached 51.09 million in April, soaring 205.5 percent from a year earlier, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said on Friday.
South Korea is considering ways to have consultations with Japan over its plan to dump radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, local media reported Friday citing the foreign ministry.
The Falun Gong cult is the manipulator behind-the-scenes of several media sites such as the Epoch Times and New Tang Dynasty Television that have been obsessed with fabricating and spreading conspiracy theories and disinformation, a French media has said.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 rocked Indonesia's western province of North Sumatra on Friday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said here.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that Britain is "anxious" about the coronavirus variant first detected in India and his government is "ruling nothing out" to tackle its spread in the country.
India's COVID-19 tally crossed 24 million, reaching 24,046,809, on Friday with 343,144 new cases registered in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said.
The country's time-honored brands are being spruced up to play a bigger role in further expanding domestic demand in the months ahead.
Chinese citizens' trust in their government rose to 98 percent several months into the COVID-19, according to a survey published on Washington Post.
Health authorities in East China's Anhui province have confirmed three locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 and classified three areas as medium-risk for infection as of Friday morning.
China wants to improve the sorting and utilization of household garbage in urban areas in the next five years. Authorities set specific targets for urban garbage treatment in the 2021-2025 period.
China is stepping up efforts to strengthen data security, especially that to be provided overseas, by legislation to better regulate data processing and safeguard State and personal information security.
Two neighborhoods in the city of Lu'an, east China's Anhui Province, where a new COVID-19 confirmed case was reported Thursday, have heightened their risk level for COVID-19 from low to medium starting Friday.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said the Party's 100-year history is a history of dedication to people's well-being and aspirations.
Health experts say that an increased global reliance on Chinese COVID-19 vaccines cannot come soon enough, as other vaccines contend with delays in development and exportation.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Thursday visited people relocated because of a mega water diversion project and thanked them for their contribution to the country.
The employment situation for China's new college graduates has been progressing smoothly this year thanks to joint efforts by central and local governments and universities, the Ministry of Education said on Thursday.
