Organizing officials for the 2022 Winter Olympics said Tuesday the Games’ host city, Beijing, has no plans to lock down any sections of the capital to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus during the event — scheduled to take place from February 4 through February 20 — despite increasing lockdowns in surrounding areas.
An 84-year-old Indian man who allegedly received 11 doses of Chinese coronavirus vaccines over the past year by using multiple identification cards assigned to him has threatened to commit suicide if prosecuted for misleading the Indian Health Service, the Times of India reported on Wednesday.
Chinese Communist Party officials have locked down an estimated 51.6 million people across China as of Wednesday in an effort to contain the nation’s latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus almost exactly two years after China’s central city of Wuhan reported the first known cases of the disease.
Beijing’s Traffic Management Bureau warned locals on Sunday to “maintain a safe distance” from potential traffic accidents involving 2022 Winter Olympic vehicles during the upcoming event, as interactions between participants of the Beijing-hosted Games and any outside persons is strictly prohibited by the Chinese Communist Party to prevent transmission of the Chinese coronavirus.
Chinese Communist Party authorities forbade all of Tianjin’s 15 million residents from leaving the city on Sunday in an effort to contain the municipality’s recent Chinese coronavirus epidemic, which threatens to affect neighboring Beijing just 25 days before it is set to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Several small business owners in the South Korean national capital of Seoul left their shop lights on all night on Thursday to protest a state-mandated coronavirus curfew ordering small businesses nationwide, such as cafes and restaurants, to close by 9:00 p.m. each night, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported Friday.
Metro Manila’s government issued an edict this week forbidding residents unvaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus from leaving their homes for non-essential reasons for an indefinite amount of time as part of the region’s effort to contain a surging caseload of the disease, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.
An eight-months-pregnant woman in central China’s Xi’an city suffered a miscarriage in recent days after a hospital denied urgent medical care because a Chinese coronavirus test result required for entry to the facility was expired by two hours, the news site SupChina reported on Wednesday.
El Salvador debuted a public service announcement (PSA) on Monday urging citizens of the Central American country to attain an “ideal weight” through a healthy diet and exercise to reduce the chance of developing complications from a possible Chinese coronavirus infection.
Chinese Communist Party officials ordered the roughly 110 million residents of central China’s Henan province to enter various degrees of lockdown this week to contain a province-wide outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run Global Times reported Wednesday.
Children from low-income families worldwide will need “seven to eight years to recover and return to pre-COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] child poverty levels” according to a recently published report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Latin American news site Infobae reported Monday.
Three top candidates for the Philippines’ May 2022 presidential election, including boxer-turned-senator Manny Pacquiao and Ferdinand Marcos Jr., announced the temporary suspension of major campaign activities on Monday due to a recent surge in Chinese coronavirus cases nationwide, the Philippine Star reported.
The former Playboy model, Raiders cheerleader, and Baywatch actress who was detained after assaulting a maskless fellow passenger during a Delta Air Lines flight was blasted online for her now-viral outburst, with many highlighting her past and blaming current “COVID lunacy” attitudes for contributing to such behavior.
The governments of at least 12 countries worldwide have vowed to impose various restrictions on Christmas or New Year’s festivities in an effort to curb Chinese coronavirus transmission over the winter holiday season.
South Korea’s federal government ordered Chinese coronavirus patients currently receiving treatment for their symptoms in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) nationwide to vacate their beds immediately on Wednesday in an effort to ease a pandemic-induced hospital bed shortage across the country, the Korean Herald reported Thursday.
Coronavirus patients are “80 percent less likely to be hospitalized if they catch the omicron variant, compared with other strains,” Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing a study by South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) released on Tuesday.
Chinese Communist Party officials locked down the entire city of Xi’an on Thursday after reportedly just 143 its 13 million residents tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus over the past two weeks, China’s official state-run press agency, Xinhua, reported.
An Indonesian man recently claimed to have received 16 doses of Chinese coronavirus vaccines on behalf of 14 people for varying sums of money over the past three months, the online news site Coconuts Jakarta reported Tuesday.
An independent café owner in the South Korean port city of Incheon announced plans on Tuesday to remain open 24 hours in the coming days to protest state-mandated business curfews designed to curb Chinese coronavirus transmission, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
The recent death of a 26-year-old New Zealand man from myocarditis was “probably due to vaccination” with a Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer, New Zealand’s Covid-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board (CVISMB) said.
“Eleven times fewer” Chinese coronavirus patients — or just 1.7 percent — were hospitalized for symptoms as part of South Africa’s latest wave of the Omicron variant compared to the 19 percent of coronavirus patients admitted to hospitals during South Africa’s equivalent summer wave of the Delta strain, South Africa’s Health Ministry told reporters on Friday, as reported by the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
Dozens of Malaysians staged a demonstration outside the nation’s parliament building in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday to urge the federal government to drop extreme penalties for Chinese coronavirus violations such as a six-month jail sentence for anyone found guilty of going
All people seeking to travel out of southern China’s Dongguan city must present a negative Chinese coronavirus test result to municipal authorities before they are allowed to exit the community, Dongguan city officials announced on Thursday.
Local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in Zhejiang, a province neighboring Shanghai, ordered residents to “limit family gatherings to ten people” on Monday in an effort to contain the province’s surging Chinese coronavirus caseload, the online magazine Sixth Tone reported.
Bucheon, South Korea, will begin using an artificial intelligence (AI)-based facial recognition software in January designed to cull images from CCTV cameras and locate, track, and contact trace Chinese coronavirus patients, Reuters reported Monday.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Kenyan government authorities to drop a mandate requiring anyone seeking government services in Kenya to show proof of Chinese coronavirus vaccination, arguing the system undermines “basic rights.”
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso ruled on Saturday Brazil’s federal government must require all foreign travelers to present proof of vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus before they are allowed entry into the country, Brazil’s Folha Press agency reported on
Nigeria’s aviation ministry announced plans on Sunday to ban incoming flights from the United Kingdom (U.K.), Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina starting this week in retaliation for flight bans on Nigeria ordered by those countries in recent days to prevent the spread of Omicron, a new coronavirus variant.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa tested positive for an undisclosed strain of the Chinese coronavirus on Sunday and was presenting “mild symptoms” of illness as of Monday, Reuters reported.
Greece’s education ministry threatened to “deprive” parents of “custody” over their children on Thursday if they refuse to comply with masking and testing mandates enforced on primary and secondary school students during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Alexandros Koptsis, the general secretary
China’s ruling Communist Party sent a specialized task force to the Russia-China land port of Manzhouli this week to “investigate hidden loopholes” among the city’s import stations that allegedly sparked an ongoing outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus in Manzhouli last month, the Global Times reported Wednesday.
New Zealand’s far-left government plans to outlaw smoking nationwide by 2025, the country’s health ministry announced Thursday. Plans to effectively eliminate smoking in New Zealand over the next four years have now been finalized, New Zealand Associate Health Minister Ayesha
Recent data out of South Africa suggests Omicron, a new variant of the Chinese coronavirus, “causes milder disease than Delta,” World Health Organization (W.H.O.) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Wednesday.
South African Dr. Angelique Coetzee — who discovered a new variant of “Covid-19,” or the Chinese coronavirus, called Omicron last month in her patients — told the Africa News Agency (ANA) on Tuesday she considered the worldwide bans on travel out of southern Africa following Omicron’s emergence “knee-jerk” and short-sighted, given the lack of information about the strain.
Local Communist Party authorities in China’s Russian border city of Manzhouli fired five local government officials in recent days for their allegedly “slow and weak response in combating [Chinese coronavirus],” the Global Times reported Sunday.
Parents in South Korea have expressed “anger” in recent days against a looming federal mandate that will require children aged 12 to 17 years to provide proof of vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus to enter public spaces “frequented by students, including cram schools, internet cafes, and public study rooms” starting in February, Yonhap reported Monday.
The manager of a Beijing venue that is set to host men’s ice hockey events during the 2022 Winter Olympics told China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday Olympic coordinators have yet to determine if seats in the stadium “will be open to the public.”
Allegedly lax coronavirus protocol at a frozen food import warehouse in northeastern China’s Dalian city caused an outbreak of the disease last month, China’s state-run Global Times reported Friday.
The government of India’s national capital territory, Delhi, ordered all schools and colleges in the city to close on Friday until further notice citing air pollution marking the second such mandate in less than three weeks.
Facebook (now known as Meta) has removed hundreds of accounts linked to China-based administrators for allegedly promoting coronavirus misinformation online, the U.S.-based social networking site said Thursday.
