Tag: Covid-19
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The US murder rate fell to historic lows in 2025 – here’s why
The murder rate in 2025 was the lowest in modern American history. Preliminary data shows the murder rate fell nearly 20% from 2024, likely making it the lowest ... -
Covid-19 transmission rises as gov’t steps up vaccinations at care homes
The local authorities have confirmed a recent upswing in Covid-19 transmission, with cluster infections already reported in several schools and residential care facilities, leading the Health ... -
Hockey coach admits using a false Covid-19 vaccine certificate to enter China for Olympics
Swiss ice hockey coach Patrick Fischer has admitted he used a certificate falsely claiming he’d been vaccinated against COVID-19 to get around China’s travel restrictions for ... -
China sues after Missouri seeks to collect on $25 billion court judgement, prosecutor says
Missouri’s top prosecutor said China is suing after the state pressed federal officials for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion court judgment related to the ... -
Missouri seeks federal help in pressing Beijing for $25 billion in pandemic damages
Missouri has escalated its attempt to seize Chinese government-owned property across the United States, asking the Trump administration for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion ... -
Ex-NY governors’ aide got kickbacks for masks
A former aide to two New York governors is set to go on trial today [Macau time] on charges she sold her influence to the Chinese government ... -
Covid-19 is still active in Macau, says SSM
The Health Bureau (SSM) has reported that while the Covid-19 pandemic in Macau remains at a relatively high level of activity, it is reassuring to note ... -
The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at ... -
A new genetic analysis of animals may help find Covid-19’s origin
Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they ... -
Authorities release vlogger who filmed Wuhan lockdown
Zhang Zhan was released from prison after serving four years for charges related to reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, according to a video ... -
Virologist Zhang Yongzhen allowed back in his lab after sit-in protest
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China said he was allowed back into his lab after he spent days locked ... -
Scientist who first published virus sequence protests after being locked out of his lab
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. ... -
Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous
The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to ... -
China’s chief epidemiologist who helped drive the anti-COVID fight dies at age 60
Wu Zunyou, an epidemiologist who helped drive the country’s strict zero-COVID measures in China that suspended access to cities and confined millions to their homes, died ... -
UK’s Labour Party says if elected it will track down billions lost to COVID-19 fraud
Britain’s main opposition Labour Party says that if it wins power, it will appoint a “COVID corruption commissioner” to try and recoup some of the billions lost to ... -
Covid-19 Centre discontinued after over three years
The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre was closed yesterday, according to a Chief Executive Dispatch published on the same day. Pursuant to dispatch 156/2023, the ... -
The Great Grift: How billions in Covid-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted
Fraudsters used the Social Security numbers of dead people and federal prisoners to get unemployment checks. Cheaters collected those benefits in multiple states. And federal loan ... -
Gov’t: Covid-19 cases up, three policy secretaries infected
The government is again calling on the public to reinforce protection measures to reduce infection risk as it is recording a rise in Covid-19 infections. The ... -
WHO: COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?
The World Health Organization downgraded its assessment of the coronavirus pandemic last week, saying it no longer qualifies as a global emergency. The action reverses a ... -
Mexico develops own Covid-19 vaccine, two years late
Mexican officials celebrated yesterday [Macau time] the announcement that the country finally developed its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations from the U.S., ... -
China ambassador arrives in North Korea in sign of
China said yesterday its new ambassador to North Korea has taken up his post, in a sign the North is reopening amid reports it has been ... -
Ignoring experts, China’s sudden zero-Covid exit cost lives
When China suddenly scrapped onerous zero-COVID measures in December, the country wasn't ready for a massive onslaught of cases. Hospitals turned away ambulances, crematoriums burned bodies ... -
Covid-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins
COVID-19’s origins remain hazy. Three years after the start of the pandemic, it’s still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab ... -
Beijing says it’s been ‘open and transparent’ on virus origins
China pushed back at renewed suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic could have been the result of a lab leak, saying it has been “open and transparent” ... -
RAT no longer needed entering HK from Macau
Same-day SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests (RAT) will not be required for travelers from Macau to Hong Kong from today, the Hong Kong government has told a ... -
Pui Ching principal hopes daily RAT requirements end soon
Lawmaker Kou Kam Fai, principal of Pui Ching Middle School, hopes daily Covid-19 antigen tests on students with no previous infections will end soon. Government guidelines ... -
Vaccination figures soar after border reopening
There were 10 times more Covid-19 vaccine doses administered on a single day in December last year than the daily average in November, according to pulmonologist ... -
Beijing accuses ‘some Western media’ of coverage bias
China yesterday accused “some Western media” of bias, smears and political manipulation in their coverage of China’s abrupt ending of its strict “zero-COVID” policy, as it ... -
China reports 60,000 deaths, says peak passed
China this weekend reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December, offering hard numbers for an unprecedented surge that was apparent in ... -
Japan, S. Korea protest China visa stoppage
Japan and South Korea defended public health restrictions on travelers from China yesterday, a day after China stopped issuing new visas in both countries in apparent ... -
MGTO no comment on countries’ stricter Covid restrictionsfor Macau entrants
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) declined to comment on Japan and Korea imposing restrictions on entrants from Macau due to Covid-19 risk. Both northeast Asian ... -
Guidelines for post Covid-19 care
In response to the many inquiries from people infected with Covid-19, the Novel Response and Coordination Center has issued guidelines and responses to Frequently Asked ... -
Covid-related arrangements causing separation of newborns from mothers
The need to use the maternity ward of the Conde de São Januário Hospital Center (CHCSJ) for Covid-19 patients is separating newborns from their mothers, the ... -
Pfizer’s Paxlovid not included in China’s national insurance
China’s health care authorities declined to include Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment drug in a national reimbursement list that would have allowed patients to get it at a ... -
Lawmaker calls for improved Covid-19 patient assessment platform
In his written inquiry, lawmaker Ron Lam has called for the government to improve its online Covid-19 patient self-assessment platform. Currently, the platform asks patients whether ...
