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Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines are contributing to the vaccination campaign in Nepal, show data released by the Nepali Ministry of Health and Population.
The COVID-19 source tracing should be conducted in multiple countries globally other than a single nation. The United States should be one of the priority countries in the next stage of investigations by scientists.
As authorities advocate for rollout of vaccines at the speed and scale to minimize waste, the strategy employed by Ghana could offer key lessons for countries across Africa.
China will beef up monitoring and forecasting of its 98,000 reservoirs nationwide to prevent and control floods and ensure people's safety, an official with the Ministry of Water Resources said on Wednesday.
Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has recently rolled out its first mobile vaccination van to administer COVID-19 vaccines to the locals, according to local health authorities.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Tokyo reached 3,177 for the first time in a single day, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced Wednesday.
The death toll from torrential rain in central China's Henan Province has risen to 73 as of Wednesday noon, said the provincial emergency management department.
Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, reported three locally transmitted COVID-19 cases Tuesday, the municipal health commission said Wednesday.
Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, reported 47 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and one asymptomatic infection on Tuesday, local authorities said Wednesday.
There is no credible evidence that the novel coronavirus was released from China, the leader of a major Bangladeshi journalist union has said.
China's Supreme People's Court on Wednesday specified a set of regulations for the use of facial recognition.
The provincial capital, will comprehensively strengthen control measures to contain a recent COVID-19 outbreak, in which the highly contagious delta variant has been detected.
Typhoon Nepartak has turned northward and made landfall on the Pacific coast of the northeastern Miyagi prefecture on Wednesday morning, veering off its primarily expected course toward the Tokyo area.
The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 55 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, including 48 in Jiangsu Province, three in Sichuan and two each in Liaoning and Yunnan, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Wednesday.
China on Thursday declined a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase investigation into the COVID-19 origin that includes the hypothesis it could have been leaked from a Chinese laboratory.
As Henan province mops up from the floodwaters that caused 71 deaths and affected more than 13.3 million people last week, it is bracing for more heavy rain from Typhoon In-Fa.
Leon Tong Ying-kit, the first to be charged under the law in Hong Kong, faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.
Amid a "grave and complicated "flood control situation, the Ministry of Emergency Management has demanded that local authorities nationwide enhance early warning measures and thoroughly check urban areas at risk of flooding, including subways, to ensure people's safety.
China's COVID-19 vaccine development is among global front-runners, with seven vaccines that have received conditional market approval or been authorized for emergency use.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday updated its masking guidelines, recommending that even vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in COVID-19 hot spots.
A man was convicted of inciting others to commit secession and engaging in terrorist activities on Tuesday in Hong Kong.
The death toll from torrential rain in central China's Henan Province has risen to 71, as of Tuesday noon, said the information office of the provincial government at a press conference.
The herd of 14 wild Asian elephants roaming southwest China's Yunnan Province has continued heading southwest since July 21, local authorities said Tuesday.
The United States is facing a resurgence of new COVID-19 infections nationwide, due to the rising cases of the more contagious Delta variant fueled by misinformation about the virus and politicization of the nation's response to the pandemic.
A draft amendment to China's Population and Family Planning Law will be submitted to an upcoming session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, for its deliberation, NPC sources said on Tuesday.
As new variants of COVID-19 emerge and spread rapidly, pushing Latin America toward the brink of a health emergency, the region must step up vaccination of its population, said Mexican allergist and infectious disease expert Gerardo Lopez Perez.
South Korea reported 1,412 more cases of COVID-19 variants for the past week, bringing the total number of such cases to 6,016, the health authorities said Tuesday.
Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, has tightened the epidemic prevention and control measures after the recent spike in COVID-19 infections in the city.
India's top court Tuesday issued a notice to the federal government and the local government of Delhi, asking them to rehabilitate and vaccinate beggars and homeless people against COVID-19.
More than 900 shooting incidents took place across the United States last week, according to ABC News.
