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Police in east-central China’s Hunan province said Wednesday they were investigating a 60-year-old woman for assaulting a government worker after he asked her to present a Chinese coronavirus “vaccine passport” before entering a building this week.

Chinese health officials have vaccinated more than half of China’s population of 1.4 billion against the Chinese coronavirus, the National Health Commission (NHC) of the People’s Republic of China claimed Friday.

The chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) ordered his officers to “strictly enforce” a ban on outdoor exercise in the Philippine national capital, Manila, on Wednesday while the city remains under lockdown to limit transmission of the Chinese coronavirus.

Canberra ordered the entire Australian Capital Territory (ACT), home to over 431,000 people, into total lockdown Thursday for seven days to contain four new cases of the Chinese coronavirus, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.

Nine Chinese coronavirus patients died at a hospital in Russia on Monday due to a disrupted oxygen supply after an underground pipeline supplying the facility with oxygen ruptured for unknown reasons, local government officials said.

Pakistan’s government will ban people who have not been vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus from traveling by train within the country starting October 1, the Pakistani online newspaper Dawn reported Tuesday.

Communist Party authorities in the central Chinese city of Jingmen have forcibly quarantined nearly 2,200 “close contacts” of people infected with the Chinese coronavirus in recent days in an effort to contain Jingmen’s latest outbreak of the disease, the state-run Global Times reported Tuesday.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) may begin naming future variants of the Chinese coronavirus after star constellations, a report this weekend citing the head of the organization’s coronavirus response claimed.

Singapore’s Health Ministry announced Friday it will ease Chinese coronavirus restrictions across the city-state for vaccinated people starting August 10.

Dissident artists will save American culture from politicization and centralization in the entertainment industry, Amanda Milius said.

Florida officials issued a rule protecting parents’ right to make decisions for their minor children, including no mask wearing at school.

Beijing’s government has canceled all large-scale events and exhibitions in the city for the rest of August in an effort to contain the city’s latest outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run China Daily reported Thursday.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Wednesday urged nations not to administer booster shots of Chinese coronavirus vaccines in an effort to save the global vaccine supply for use in poorer countries. “W.H.O. is calling for a moratorium on boosters

Japan’s population dropped by a record margin of nearly 0.4 percent year-on-year as of January 1, the largest decrease recorded since 2013, Kyodo News reported Wednesday. The population of Japan declined by 483,789, or 0.38 percent, from January 2020 to

Sky News Australia will face a Senate inquiry after serving a week-long suspension by YouTube over allegations of coronavirus misinformation, the senator in charge of the hearing said Friday.

D.C. Water has issued a boil water advisory after a crew fixing a pipeline could have allowed containminants to seep into the water supply.

The Communist Party disciplinary committee of China’s Zhangjiajie city government “punished” 20 municipal officials as of Wednesday for allegedly failing to prevent Zhangjiajie’s latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak from spreading to several other cities and provinces, the state-run China Central Television (CCTV) reported.

China’s ruling Communist Party imposed travel restrictions on all 31 provincial-level regions of the country on Tuesday in an effort to contain the spread of China’s most recent coronavirus outbreak, the state-run press agency Xinhua reported.

A professor of pediatrics and molecular virology urges criticisms of Dr. Anthony Fauci and other government scientists to be prosecuted as hate crimes.

Mike Huckabee said Andrew Cuomo’s killing of thousands of seniors in a COVID-19 nursing home scandal is worse than sexual harassment charges.

Japan’s health ministry on Monday released the names of three people it accused of violating a state-mandated coronavirus quarantine period after returning to Japan from overseas in recent days, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) reported Tuesday.

The government of the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) began offering Sinopharm, a Chinese state-made coronavirus vaccine candidate, to children as young as three years old on Monday, the nation’s health ministry announced.

China’s latest coronavirus outbreak exposes “glaring loopholes” in the national government’s epidemic control measures, China’s state-run Global Times admitted Sunday.

Silicon Valley tech giant Youtube has banned the centre-right Sky News Australia network from uploading video content.

Former New York Times reporter Nate Silver slammed the newspaper for spreading “misinformation” about the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

Leaders of Gulingan Village on Bali, Indonesia, threatened to banish a couple in recent days for choosing not to receive Chinese coronavirus vaccinations, local news site Coconuts Bali reported Thursday.

Beijing on Wednesday recorded its first new cases of the Chinese coronavirus since January as Chinese health officials said a recent outbreak of the disease in eastern China’s Nanjing city continues to spread nationwide, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

Southern China’s Panzhihua city announced Wednesday it will offer subsidies to families that have more than one child, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.

Government-decreed lockdowns helped Big Tech gain trillions of dollars in valuation, said Carol Roth, author of The War on Small Business.

Police in Zimbabwe have arrested at least two Christians in recent days for violating the country’s Chinese coronavirus gathering ban by holding outdoor church services, the Herald, a Zimbabwean state-owned newspaper, reported Wednesday.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Wednesday became the first national in Tanzania to receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccine, heralding a shift in public health policy for the previously coronavirus-skeptic country.

More than two-thirds of India’s population aged above six years has antibodies against the Chinese coronavirus, the Times of India reported on Friday, citing a new analysis by the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

China’s Foreign Ministry boasted on Thursday that 30 heads of state around the globe have “openly” received doses of Chinese state-made coronavirus vaccine candidates, notably omitting that China’s own leader, Xi Jinping, has yet to publicly reveal his vaccination status.

Authorities in China’s eastern city of Nanjing locked down at least 30,000 people on Tuesday to contain an outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Thursday.

Police in Lima arrested nine people on Wednesday in connection with an alleged criminal ring that charged severe Chinese coronavirus patients up to $21,000 for an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed at a state-run hospital, Peru’s Gestión newspaper reported.

India recorded its first bird flu death on Tuesday after an 11-year old boy in New Delhi succumbed to complications caused by an avian flu virus of the H5N1 strain, the Times of India reported on Thursday.