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Some school districts across the country are continuing to force children to mask up, even as states lift their remaining statewide mask mandates. 

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping ended months of silence on the growing Chinese coronavirus crisis in his country on Thursday, presiding over a Politburo meeting in which he reportedly demanded the country not abandon its strict lockdown policy to fight the surge in cases.

Dubai-owned P&O Ferries has sparked a political firestorm after deciding to fire its 800 British crewmembers in favour of foreign labour.

The pharmaceutical giant Moderna has requested the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize a fourth coronavirus booster shot. 

Just 300 coffins remained in Hong Kong as of March 17 due to a recent surge in coronavirus deaths, a funeral industry spokesman said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci this week said Americans must be “flexible” enough to reinstitute Chinese coronavirus mandates if officials deem it “necessary.”

China should pay the U.S. “reparations” for injuries and deaths caused by COVID-19 and drug abuse related to fentanyl, David McCormick said.

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on national television this week that his regime would pressure citizens to receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccine booster shot every four months.

Actor Stephen Baldwin says he has been on his knees and praying after his daughter, Hailey Bieber, was stricken by a blood clot in her brain.

China’s northeast Jilin province, one of 28 facing severe coronavirus outbreaks nationwide, allegedly built eight “makeshift hospitals” in response to the recent case surge whose construction has featured prominently this week in Chinese propaganda.

Germany’s health minister denounced the country’s unjabbed population in a public demand for compulsory vaccination on Thursday.

White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients announced his decision to depart Thursday, after a year of leading President Joe Biden’s team.

Keep your mask on, stay isolated and get ready for another round of vaccines. The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is determined that despite other competing global concerns including wars, famine, floods, inflation, and soaring energy prices, coronavirus must remain at the forefront of public consciousness.

The Chinese government’s established “Zero-COVID” strategy to combat transmission of the Chinese coronavirus — which centers largely upon state-imposed lockdowns — must be adhered to “even more firmly” now that China is facing its worst outbreak of the disease in two years, China’s state-run Global Times argued in an op-ed published Wednesday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is still fuming over the rank-and-file Democrat opposition, which forced her to ax the coronavirus aid in the spending bill last week.

Taiwan-based Apple supplier Foxconn said on Wednesday that two of its facilities in China have resumed limited operations under a “closed-loop” management system, which essentially means the employees are quarantined on the premises while the surrounding Chinese city of Shenzhen is subjected to a coronavirus lockdown.

While schools across the country decided to lock down, imposing draconian “virtual learning” and mask mandates on children, some school districts found success in keeping a student’s life “as normal as possible.”

Americans are finally ditching masks, which the left pushed for essentially the last two years, a survey from The Economist/YouGov revealed.

Most Americans are no longer worried about contracting the Chinese coronavirus, a survey from The Economist/YouGov released this week found.

As Italy prepares to end its Wuhan coronavirus state of emergency at the end of the month, Undersecretary of Health Andrea Costa stated the government aims to end all health pass measures by the end of May.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul was met with a wave of boos as she walked out to center ice at the New York Rangers game Tuesday.

The reading ability of fourth-graders in Germany has dramatically dropped since pre-pandemic times, a study has found.

British Airways has become the world’s first major airline to remove mask mandates for passengers onboard.

Pfizer and partner BioNTech approached U.S. regulators Tuesday renewing their call for authorization to administer a fourth coronavirus shot as a booster for seniors.

A recent audit from the New York state comptroller has revealed disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo failed to account for 4,100 nursing home deaths during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday and is reportedly “feeling fine.”

The Senate passed a resolution on Tuesday that would ban President Joe Biden’s mask mandates for public transportation.

Government authorities in northwest China’s Xi’an city recently launched a criminal investigation into a local resident surnamed Yao for allegedly “obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases” by failing to self-isolate after knowingly contracting the Chinese coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported Tuesday.

Major League Baseball has confirmed that unvaccinated Mets and Yankees players will still not be allowed to play home games in new York City.

Lei Zhenglong, deputy head of the Chinese National Health Commission (NHC)’s Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control, admitted to reporters on Tuesday China’s latest outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus has proven “difficult to prevent and control” and thus has spread across 28 Chinese provinces and regions as of Tuesday.

Kevin Durant is walking back his comments after blasting NYC Mayor Eric Adams over the city’s contradictory coronavirus restrictions.

Chinese state media on Monday celebrated dictator Xi Jinping’s allegedly brilliant “insights” for guiding China through the coronavirus crisis – but Xi has been conspicuously invisible during the massive coronavirus wave sweeping across China for the past few months, just as he disappeared during the initial outbreak in early 2020.

Dr. Anthony Fauci this week said that it is “likely we’re not done” with the Chinese coronavirus “when it comes to vaccines,” leaving the door open for even more jabs into the future, which he said remains uncertain.

Americans are returning to levels of pre-pandemic normalcy two years after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, as a majority now deem the virus “little or no risk,” the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index released this week found.

The Brooklyn Nets were fined $50,000 by the NBA for breaking coronavirus protocols by letting the Kyrie Irving into the locker room. 

A prolonged shutdown in China could mean higher inflation in the U.S., and that’s likely to weigh on the minds of Fed officials as they meet this week to discuss their interest rate target.