2022-01-18 China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has tightened epidemic control due to the latest COVID-19 outbreak in the neighboring mainland cities of Zhuhai and Zhongshan. 
2022-01-18 Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said Tuesday the overall vaccination rate is expected to exceed 80 percent before the start of the city's planned vaccine bubble on Feb 24. 
2022-01-18 U.S. Los Angeles County on Monday reported 31,576 new COVID-19 cases, nearly 10 times the 3,360 new daily cases reported on Dec. 17, 2021, said the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. 
2022-01-18 Fifty percent of Americans say President Joe Biden's first year in office has left them feeling "frustrated," showed a new CBS News/YouGov poll released on Sunday 
2022-01-18 The U.S. administration has inconsistent messaging on its COVID-19 response, creating a "real problem," Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, has said. 
2022-01-18 While the number of intensive-care-unit patients has been inching higher in recent weeks as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads in Italy, it has not approached levels seen during earlier waves yet. 
2022-01-18 Preliminary results from an Israeli study showed low efficacy of the fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose against the Omicron variant, Israel's largest hospital said in a statement on Monday. 
2022-01-18 Some 63.1 percent of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated with at least two doses against COVID-19, a ratio ranking behind 58 other countries, The Hill reported Saturday. 
2022-01-18 Two former Cathay Pacific flight attendants were arrested and charged with violating local anti-pandemic rules on Monday, Hong Kong police said. 
2022-01-18 Australia recorded its highest ever number of COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, as the outbreak continued to push up the hospitalization rates to record levels. 
2022-01-18 Small businesses in the United States are besieged by problems like supply chain difficulties, periodic staffing shortage and fewer customers, as the pandemic enters its third year amid the Omicron surge, Reuters has reported. 2022-01-18 Beijing reported another new locally-transmitted COVID-19 case on Monday after the first locally-transmitted Omicron case was reported Saturday, the municipal health commission said Tuesday. 2022-01-18 The United States is bracing for "tough weeks" ahead in many parts of the country as the Omicron surge has not yet peaked, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has warned. 
2022-01-18 The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 127 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday. 
2022-01-18 The world must vaccinate everyone against COVID-19 in order to defeat the pandemic, said the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. 
2022-01-18 Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan has stressed quick response and swift containment of cluster COVID-19 cases as the Chinese New Year is approaching. 
2022-01-18 Americans' approval of the pandemic response of the White House has hit a new low, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll released on Sunday. 2022-01-17 While U.S. President Joe Biden has vowed to keep businesses and schools open, some experts wonder if that's possible given the high infectious nature of Omicron and the lack of adequate measures to combat it, The Guardian said in a recent report. 
2022-01-17 Even vaccinated people have started wearing masks again in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. With daily reports of new outbreaks and the rise of the Delta variant of COVID-19, sales of hygiene products are increasing again, especially those from China. 
2022-01-17 Source tracing has linked Beijing's new local COVID-19 infection with international mail, a health official said Monday at a press conference. 
2022-01-17 This season may be the last "cold winter" China will experience during its COVID-19 fight, a renowned infectious disease expert in Shanghai said, expressing his faith in the nation's epidemic control measures. 
2022-01-17 Health officials believe China's dynamic zero-COVID-19 strategy remains effective in controlling coronavirus outbreaks, as Omicron infections surfaced in major cities including Beijing and Shanghai over the weekend. 
2022-01-17 The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 163 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday. 
2022-01-17 China approved a new COVID-19 testing kit on Saturday that can accurately diagnose 15 common strains of the novel coronavirus, including the Delta and Omicron variants, according to kit developer Tsinghua University. 
2022-01-17 U.S. pediatric hospitalizations related to COVID-19 are at the highest level since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest data of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 2022-01-17 The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is fueling the biggest infection wave and hampering economic recovery in the United States, as reflected in the cancellation of thousands of flights by major U.S. airlines and the unbridled annual inflation which surged to an almost 40-year high in December. 
2022-01-15 The recent COVID-19 resurgence in China has been in general stabilized, as the country managed to bring the outbreaks in some areas under control in a timely manner, the National Health Commission said Saturday. 
2022-01-15 Over 1.26 billion Chinese people, or nearly 90 percent of the country's population, have received COVID-19 vaccine jabs as of Friday, said a health official on Saturday. 
2022-01-15 One person in Beijing tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, local authorities said. 
2022-01-14 The current anti-epidemic measures will be extended for 14 more days until Feb. 3, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Friday. 2022-01-14 A foreign ministry spokesperson on Friday said China will continue to maintain and practice true multilateralism, and is ready to enhance cooperation with all countries to contribute to the post-pandemic global development. 2022-01-14 North China's Tianjin Municipality will launch the third round of citywide nucleic acid testing at 7 a.m. Saturday. 2022-01-14 China calls on relevant countries to live up to promises of providing vaccines to the world, work with China to close the global “immunization gap” and make due contribution to humanity’s early victory over the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese FM spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Thursday. 
2022-01-14 A nurse from a local hospital in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, was identified as a mild COVID-19 case after testing positive for the virus during a routine nucleic acid testing on Thursday evening. 
2022-01-14 From Monday, the self-isolation period for fully vaccinated people in England who test positive for COVID-19 will be reduced from seven days to five full days, British Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced Thursday. 
2022-01-14 The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 143 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday. 
2022-01-14 The northern Chinese municipality of Tianjin found 44 people testing positive for COVID-19 in its second citywide nucleic acid testing that ended early Friday morning, local authorities said. 
2022-01-14 The health commission in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, has been getting praise on Chinese social media over the past few days for its quick response to public needs amid the recent resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
2022-01-14 French Minister of Health Olivier Veran announced on Thursday he had tested positive for COVID-19. 
2022-01-14 The fast-spreading Omicron variant should not be treated like influenza, because it can pose severe risks to unvaccinated people and its long-term effects on recovered patients still remain unclear, health experts said. 
2022-01-14 Top U.S. health authorities have warned that the Omicron variant is so contagious that it is likely most people in the United States will be infected, The Guardian reported on Wednesday. 
2022-01-14 The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Joe Biden administration's rule requiring employees at large U.S. businesses to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or be subject to frequent testing. 
2022-01-14 The number of daily COVID-19 cases in Germany hit a new record of 81,417, around 17,000 more than a week ago, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases said on Thursday. 2022-01-14 The federal government of the United States is sending medical teams to New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico to help hospitals overburdened by COVID-19, U.S. media has reported. 2022-01-13 Benin on Wednesday received a second batch of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines as well as syringe units donated by the Chinese government. 2022-01-13 Facing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, China's precise containment measures continue to function as a stabilizer for socio-economic development while protecting people's lives and health. 2022-01-13 North China's Tianjin Municipality on Thursday announced it would upgrade its COVID-19 prevention and control measures in risk areas to lower the risk of the virus spreading. 
2022-01-13 Two hospitals in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, have been ordered to suspend operations for rectification and improvement for three months because of their delay in rescue and diagnosis and treatment of acute and critical patients earlier this month. 
2022-01-13 The Omicron variant, which spreads faster than Delta, could cause a surge in hospitalizations and stretch the health care system. The battle against Omicron is still at "the toughest moment," said Zhang Wenhong. 
2022-01-13 The Japanese government is mulling the idea of making shorter the 14-day period of self-isolation currently in place for those who have come into close contact with a person infected with the Omicron COVID-19 variant. 
2022-01-13 The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported 124 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Thursday. 
2022-01-13 The COVID-19 outbreak in Tianjin is controllable as effective and concrete prevention and control measures are implemented in the days to come, although the risk of spread in local communities still exists.
2022-01-13 The World Health Organization has warned that more than half of the people in its European region will be infected with COVID-19 in the next two months as several countries report record numbers of new cases. 
2022-01-13 World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic has acknowledged he made an "error of judgment" by not immediately isolating after testing positive for COVID-19. 
2022-01-13 Shanghai-based Fosun Pharma provided 13.33 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan in 2021, a mainland spokesperson said Wednesday. 
2022-01-13 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized on Wednesday for attending a Downing Street garden party during the country's first lockdown in 2020. 
2022-01-13 The United States has been mobilized on federal, corporate and research fronts this week to deal with the highly contagious Omicron variant, as the country set its latest COVID-19 record with nearly 1.5 million new cases reported nationwide on Monday. 
2022-01-13 The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday cautioned and urged for preparedness against concurrent outbreaks of COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases during the coming spring. 
2022-01-13 A new ensemble forecast from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicted that more than 62,000 more people could die from COVID-19 over the next four weeks. 
2022-01-12 Chinese health experts have urged the public to get a booster shot for COVID-19 to protect against the Omicron variant. 2022-01-12 North China's Tianjin Municipality on Wednesday morning mobilized all residents to undergo the second round of nucleic acid testing, after the first round of citywide screening starting Sunday found 77 positive samples for COVID-19. 
2022-01-12 Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is still a necessity in the face of the Omicron variant, senior Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) expert Zhang Boli said in an interview with Xinhua on Tuesday. 
2022-01-12 The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 166 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Wednesday.
2022-01-12 The United States shattered daily COVID-19 cases record again as nearly 1.5 million new COVID-19 cases were reported across the country on Monday, according to latest data of Johns Hopkins University. 
2022-01-12 As the world enters the third year of the pandemic, the climate crisis, growing social divides, heightened cyber risks and uneven global recovery are the top global risks in 2022. 
2022-01-12 The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that current COVID-19 vaccines may need to be updated if they are to provide continued protection against emerging variants, including Omicron.
2022-01-12 Nearly 8.5 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, and COVID-19 cases among American children are "increasing exponentially" . 
2022-01-12 Citing preliminary data, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Tuesday that the COVID-19 vaccines remain effective against severe disease and hospitalization caused by the Omicron coronavirus variant. 
2022-01-11 Taiwan on Tuesday reported 12 new locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, a daily record high for this year, along with 58 imported cases, the island's disease monitoring agency said. 2022-01-11 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday said that the nation's inoculation drive will soon be expanded to include children aged under 12 years old as the country is facing the rampant spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. 
2022-01-11 A new batch of over 740,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines left Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, for northern Myanmar on Tuesday. 
2022-01-11 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday an entry ban on non-resident foreigners will be further extended until the end of February. 
2022-01-11 The true number of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is probably being undercounted -- many deaths are not counted because they happen months after infection, according to an insurance company CEO.
2022-01-11 Kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in Zhengzhou City have suspended in-person classes and started to hold classes online from Monday, while all the city's dining venues have stopped offering dine-in services. 
2022-01-11 Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has pulled out of the Sydney Tennis Classic after testing positive for COVID-19, casting doubt whether or not he will be ready to play in the upcoming Australian Open. 2022-01-11 Kindergarten and primary schools must suspend classes before Friday in light of the rising COVID-19 cases in children, said Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday. 
2022-01-11 Anyang City, central China's Henan Province, has upgraded epidemic control measures, as 84 COVID-19 local infections have been confirmed since the first confirmed case was reported on Saturday. 
2022-01-11 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday an entry ban on non-resident foreigners to the country will be further extended until the end of February.
2022-01-11 A truck from Horgos, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, carrying 1 million Uygur-style bread buns arrived in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, on Friday as part of support efforts for the city, which is experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak. 
2022-01-11 Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and a key supplier of Apple Inc, said its plants in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province, are currently in normal operation, despite more COVID-19 cases in the city. 2022-01-11 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time. 2022-01-11 The Chinese mainland recorded 192 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday, with 110 locally transmitted cases and 82 from overseas, according to the National Health Commission on Tuesday.
2022-01-11 The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 110 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday. 
2022-01-11 Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has been tested positive for COVID-19, Israel's state-owned Kan TV news reported, adding that the minister is feeling well and staying in quarantine at his home. 2022-01-11 The latest COVID-19 surge in the United States driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant is leading to critical staffing shortages across the nation. 
2022-01-10 Residents in Beijing should avoid going to Tianjin, as 40 confirmed COVID-19 cases were found there over the weekend, capital officials said on Sunday.
2022-01-10 Enterprises engaged in the processing or sale of imported fabrics — wholesale or retail— were ordered to suspend shipments into Yiwu, Zhejiang province. 
2022-01-10 North China's Tianjin Municipality which has witnessed the latest COVID-19 resurgence has launched an emergency response mechanism to guarantee the supply of daily necessities. 
2022-01-10 Two COVID-19 local infections in Anyang City, central China's Henan Province, are confirmed to be caused by the Omicron variant, which has been classified as a member of Clade BA.1, local authorities said Monday.
2022-01-10 North China's Tianjin Municipality reported 20 new domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases from 9 p.m. Saturday to 9 p.m. Sunday, local authorities said Sunday. 
2022-01-10 The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 97 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday. 
2022-01-10 Tianjin launched mass COVID-19 testing on Sunday as 40 people tested positive for the virus over the weekend, local health officials said. 
2022-01-10 The Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games on Sunday dismissed reports that a Spanish athlete who tested positive for COVID-19 visited downtown Beijing as rumors. 
2022-01-10 As the highly infectious Omicron variant takes command amid the lingering pandemic, the most significant infection surge of COVID-19 to date is emerging in the United States, putting additional pressure on an overtaxed health care system. 
2022-01-10 The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 60 million on Sunday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. 
2022-01-09 India Sunday reported 159,632 new COVID-19 cases, which is over a five-fold increase since the beginning of the new year. On Jan. 1, the total number of new cases was only 27,553. 
2022-01-09 India's COVID-19 tally rose to 35,528,004 on Sunday as a steep rise of 159,632 new daily cases were registered, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. 
2022-01-09 The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 92 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday. 
2022-01-09 North China's Tianjin, a municipality that neighbors Beijing, has decided to start a citywide nucleic acid testing after 20 people were tested positive for COVID-19, authorities said Sunday. 
2022-01-09 Temporary mass vaccination sites that were wound down months ago across the United States are being reopened to get more people vaccinated and boosted in the latest surge of COVID-19 fueled by the Omicron variant. 
2022-01-09 The COVID-19 variant Omicron could peak in the United States very soon and a decline of surging infections is possible in the very near future, according to a report by The Harvard Gazette. 
2022-01-08 The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Friday on the legality of two initiatives at the heart of the Biden administration's efforts to address the coronavirus in the workplace. 2022-01-07 As the global COVID-19 death toll has passed 5.4 million amid a surge in Omicron cases, an expert from the Imperial College London (ICL) said that research on new vaccines and stronger global collaboration may be needed to tackle emerging COVID-19 variants. 
2022-01-07 Global COVID-19 cases topped 300 million on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. 
2022-01-07 The COVID-19 outbreak in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, has reached a turning point, with confirmed cases continuing to decrease, said renowned Chinese respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan. 
2022-01-07 The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 116 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday.
2022-01-07 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is preparing to place three prefectures here under a quasi-state of emergency on Friday amid a spike in COVID-19 cases stemming from U.S. military personnel based in the prefectures spreading the virus.
2022-01-07 World No. 1 Novak Djokovic will remain in a detention hotel throughout this weekend as his lawyers fight to enable the tennis ace to remain in the country to defend his Australian Open (AO) crown. 
2022-01-07 Chinese top respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan said on Thursday that, in theory, China has built a certain level of herd immunity as more than 83 percent of the country's population has been vaccinated. 
2022-01-07 New York City Mayor Eric Adams has urged the White House to make a public apology to Asian Americans for calling COVID-19 the "China virus" and other remarks former President Donald Trump made to have stoked anti-Asian hate, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. 
2022-01-07 China will do its best to deliver a splendid, exceptional and extraordinary Winter Olympics for the world, making all participants feel spring-like warmth and injecting more solidarity, confidence and strength into the world. 2022-01-07 More than 180 million doses of Sinopharm and Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines have been shipped to 49 countries through COVAX, playing a crucial global role in boosting immunity and saving lives, 
2022-01-07 The global number of new COVID-19 cases increased sharply by 71 percent last week compared to the previous week, but the number of new deaths decreased by 10 percent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. 
2022-01-07 The new COVID variant called B.1.640 being monitored by the World Health Organization (WHO) is not "circulating widely at the moment" and has so far been identified in less than one percent of the samples sequenced in France.
2022-01-06 A leading epidemiologist has projected that a major resurgence in the number of COVID-19 cases in the northwest Chinese city of Xi'an is unlikely. 
2022-01-06 The Grammy Awards has been postponed for the second year in a row due to a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant in the United States, organizers announced Wednesday. 2022-01-06 The city of Xi'an in northwest China's Shaanxi Province has suspended international passenger flights since Wednesday due to the latest COVID-19 resurgence.
2022-01-06 Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on Thursday requested U.S. bases in Japan to impose a curfew amid a rampant spread of COVID-19 cases among U.S. military personnel. 2022-01-06 World No.1 Novak Djokovic's visa to enter Australia has been canceled with authorities reportedly intending to deport the Serbian athlete later on Thursday. 
2022-01-06 The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported 132 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Thursday.
2022-01-06 The number of COVID-19 patients detected in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, significantly dropped on Tuesday, an indication that the strict prevention and control measures previously introduced have achieved results. 
2022-01-06 The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will ban incoming passenger flights from eight countries for two weeks and reinstate stringent social distancing measures to stifle a looming Omicron outbreak. 
2022-01-06 Lionel Messi has tested negative for COVID-19 and already returned to Paris and will be back in training with the team in the coming days, Paris Saint-Germain confirmed on Wednesday. 
2022-01-06 U.S. military bases overseas are contributing to the spread of COVID-19 within local populations, and the United States should reflect deeply on the negative impact that its actions have had on global anti-pandemic cooperation. 
2022-01-06 Medical and testing needs have surpassed what the government and the country could provide, and colleges and schools have chosen to resume online education or even call off classes at all, amid the latest dramatic surge of COVID-19 in the United States.
2022-01-05 Japan confirmed more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases nationwide on Wednesday, almost doubling the number the previous day and for the first time surpassing 2,000 in more than three months since Sept. 26, 2021. 
2022-01-05 The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Wednesday that incoming passenger flights from eight countries will be banned from landing in Hong Kong starting from Jan. 8 for 14 days. 
2022-01-05 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's top tourism destination, on Tuesday announced the cancelation of the city's traditional carnival-time street parades due to surging COVID-19 cases. 
2022-01-05 Spokespersons for Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games were announced in Beijing on Wednesday. They are Zhao Weidong and Yan Jiarong. 
2022-01-05 The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 41 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Wednesday. 
2022-01-05 Starting from Feb 24, people entering designated venues, such as restaurants and schools, will be required to present proof of COVID-19 vaccination, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government announced on Tuesday. 
2022-01-05 Members of China's 38th Antarctic scientific expedition team said on Monday that the team had been following strict epidemic prevention measures and members are not allowed to visit other countries' stations, and all team members are doing well at the moment. 
2022-01-05 More than 103,000 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States, the first time the total has reached six figures in nearly four months.
2022-01-05 Although most people recover from COVID-19 within five to seven days of the onset of symptoms, the World Health Organization (WHO) still recommends a 14-day quarantine, an official from the organization told a press briefing on Tuesday.
2022-01-05 Omicron was officially announced on Tuesday as the absolutely dominant variant of COVID-19 in the United States, as the country is entering the third year of the pandemic. 
2022-01-05 More than 103,000 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States, the first time the total has reached six figures in nearly four months, CNN on Tuesday quoted the latest data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as saying. 2022-01-04 Over 7 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, said Yan Jinhai, acting chairman of the regional government. 
2022-01-04 The United States shattered a single-day record with over 1 million COVID-19 cases on Monday amid the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
2022-01-04 The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 108 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday. 
2022-01-04 A research done by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the University of Melbourne has revealed that T cells, one of the body's key defences against COVID-19, are expected to be effective in mounting an immune response against Omicron.
|
