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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
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway Missouri’s top prosecutor said China is suing after the state pressed federal officials for help collecting on a roughly $25
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway Missouri has escalated its attempt to seize Chinese government-owned property across the United States, asking the Trump administration for help collecting
Former New York Governor Kathy Hochul aide Linda Sun and her husband, Christopher Hu A former aide to two New York governors is set to go on trial today
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 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 China
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
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
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
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.
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 find the source of
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 today (Friday). He was
Britain’s main opposition Labour economy spokeswoman Rachel Reeves is due to outline the plan in a speech today at the party’s annual conference. She says the
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,
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 applicants weren’t cross-checked against a Treasury Department database that would have raised red flags about sketchy borrowers. Criminals and gangs grabbed the money. But so did a U.S. soldier in Georgia, the pastors of a defunct church in Texas, a former state lawmaker in Missouri and a roofing contractor in Montana.
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 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
Mexican officials celebrated yesterday the announcement that the country finally developed its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations from the U.S., Europe
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 suffering heavily
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 around the clock, and relatives hauled dead loved ones to warehouses for lack of storage space.
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
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” in
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
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
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
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 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 overcrowded hospitals and
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 retaliation.
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
In response to the many inquiries from people infected with Covid-19, the Novel Response and Coordination Center has issued guidelines and responses to
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
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 cheaper
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
Macau has reached the peak of the current wave of the pandemic, as residents have grappled with the rapid spread of Covid. Although, following Beijing,
Hong Kong will scrap some of its COVID-19 restrictions, including PCR tests for inbound travelers and vaccination requirements to enter certain venues, the city’s leader said
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