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Officials in charge of Liwan district in southern China’s Guangzhou city apologized Monday for “unlocking 84 houses of residents” who were under state-mandated Chinese coronavirus quarantine at the time, the Global Times reported, noting that officials admitted the action demonstrated “violent” behavior.

Three people have died in Tanzania’s Lindi region in recent days after contracting an unidentified illness characterized by symptoms including “nosebleeds, fever, headaches and fatigue,” Africanews reported on Thursday.

At least four Chinese cities have sealed off local residential districts in recent days as part of an effort to contain a nationwide resurgence of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run Global Times reported on Wednesday.

Extreme poverty has recently forced girls in rural Zimbabwe to use dried cow dung as an alternative to sanitary pads during menstrual cycles, Africanews reported on Monday.

Nearly all of Macau’s 680,000-plus residents were confined to their homes on Monday as part of the Chinese gambling hub’s effort to contain its latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reported.

Shanghai health officials claimed on Sunday to have recently discovered a new subvariant of the Chinese coronavirus called “Omicron BA.5.2.1,” China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday, noting that Shanghai’s municipal government has cited the alleged discovery as a reason for locking down parts of the city this week.

Beijing’s government announced on Wednesday plans to enforce a Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate on select members of its population of roughly 21.3 million starting next week, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

The government of Macau, which is the globe’s top gambling hub, locked down one of the city’s best-known hotels, the Grand Lisboa, on Tuesday after health officials detected over a dozen new Chinese coronavirus cases there, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Shanghai’s government announced a snap lockdown Tuesday across 9 of its 16 residential districts to allow officials to conduct mass testing for the Chinese coronavirus, Xinhua News Agency reported, adding that the movement restrictions will last through Thursday.

Leprosy is an ancient disease that many may associate with a bygone era. In some of the most populous areas of the world, however – such as Nigeria and India – the disease continues to proliferate, forcing victims to live on the margins of society in leprosy colonies.

Installation of abortion clinics on federal lands would “guarantee” Democrats lose the presidency, Marjorie Jones Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said on Thursday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health issued a regulation in recent days requiring citizens who refuse to receive a Chinese coronavirus booster shot to “write a letter of accountability” if they later contract the disease and spread it to others, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Tuesday, noting that some observers doubt the edict’s legality.

At least 11 people died and 251 more were injured on Monday after a large cylinder containing “toxic gas” with a “very high chlorine content” exploded at a port in southern Jordan’s Aqaba city, Jordan’s state-run Al Mamlaka TV reported.

Government officials in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province said at least 21 teenagers were “found dead” at a bar on Sunday morning under unclear circumstances, South Africa’s DispatchLive reported, noting that while the cause of the deaths remains unknown, some have speculated that the youths may have been “exposed to some form of poison.”

Police officers in northeastern China’s Dandong city arrested a 41-year-old woman surnamed Hao last week after she attempted to drive her elderly father to a hospital to retrieve medicine during a local Chinese coronavirus lockdown, the Global Times reported over the weekend, noting that the woman’s father attempted to slap one of the police officers after the officer shoved Hao to the ground.

The government of Macau, a Chinese special administrative region and gambling hub, began shutting down most businesses and public spaces in the region on Sunday to contain a fresh outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, Xinhua News Agency reported.

The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Urban Management and Law Enforcement recently targeted over 3,500 local businesses — including restaurants, shopping malls, and commercial venues — for allegedly failing to enforce anti-epidemic prevention measures during the city’s latest outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run Global Times reported Sunday.

Beijing’s municipal public security bureau on Tuesday launched a criminal investigation into the owner of a local bar for allegedly “impeding the prevention of infectious diseases” after the government accused the venue of being the epicenter of Beijing’s latest outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus last week, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

A U.S.-based research group estimated Tuesday that current air pollution levels in the Indian national capital territory of Delhi shorten the average lifespan by as much as ten years, the Times of India reported.

Communist Party officials locked down much of Beijing’s Chaoyang district over the weekend to contain a fresh outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus days after Beijing began lifting similar restrictions city-wide, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Monday.

Shanghai’s government reimposed lockdowns on at least eight million residents on Friday as part of a mass Chinese coronavirus testing effort, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, noting that the movement restrictions came just one week after the Chinese financial hub lifted a 65-day lockdown order for the entire city.

Thailand’s federal government legalized the medicinal use of marijuana on Thursday, becoming the first country in Asia to do so, the news website Coconuts Bangkok reported.

Some Beijing residents told Radio Free Asia (RFA) in a report published on Wednesday that at least two districts of the city maintained movement restrictions as of that day, contradicting an announcement by Beijing’s government on Wednesday that the metropolis was largely lifting its Chinese coronavirus lockdown.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said he would end COVID-19 mandates on “day one” in New York if elected governor of the Empire State.

Cuban state media recently announced the debut of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate developed jointly with China’s government, the independent Cuban news site 14 y Medio reported over the weekend.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) predicted on Thursday that deaths caused by the Chinese coronavirus in Africa will drop by 94 percent this year compared to 2021.

Migrant workers and some Shanghai residents trapped in the city for the past two months due to a total Chinese coronavirus lockdown fled Shanghai in droves on Monday ahead of the order’s lifting on Wednesday, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

Police in Beijing recently detained dozens of staff members from three local diagnostic laboratories for allegedly tampering with Chinese coronavirus test samples to cut costs, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday.

Beijing is “gradually walking out of the shadow” of its latest Chinese coronavirus epidemic, the state-run Global Times reported on Sunday, suggesting the city may not face a total lockdown like that witnessed in Shanghai over the past two months.

A funeral home in southeastern China’s Shenzhen city recently confirmed that it requires negative Chinese coronavirus test results for corpses before it will agree to process the bodies, the Chinese state-controlled news website Sixth Tone reported on Thursday.

Chinese manufacturers of clinical diagnostic products have allegedly recorded a “surge” in new orders for monkeypox virus testing kits in recent days from abroad, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Thursday.

Hundreds of students across two universities in Beijing staged anti-Chinese coronavirus lockdown protests on Monday and Tuesday this week, one day before Beijing’s top health official was fired on Wednesday for “serious violations of discipline and laws.”

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday boasted that Chinese companies are already prepared to cash in on monkeypox panic with nucleic acid test kits and vaccines.

Rep.Chris Smith said Joe Biden’s effort to amend International Health Regulations will give the WHO and Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus more power.

Iraq’s Ministry of Health announced Saturday that the country was experiencing “a dangerous rise in viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) cases,” with the ministry recording 90 infections and 18 deaths from the disease in recent days, India’s Zee News reported on Sunday.

Mozambican state health authorities declared a “public health emergency” on Wednesday in an effort to contain a case of wild poliovirus confirmed in a child in the nation’s western Tete province days earlier, the state-run Mozambique News Agency (AIM) reported on Thursday.