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A company in Thailand has allegedly shipped up to tens of millions of used nitrile gloves — some “visibly soiled … even blood-stained” — to U.S. companies since at least February, according to a CNN investigation published Monday.

A teenage resident of Indonesia’s Aceh province claimed on Tuesday a local police station refused to accept her report of an alleged rape attempt on Sunday because she was not vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus, Indonesia’s Coconuts Jakarta news site reported Thursday.

The Communist Party in Lanzhou, the capital of northwest China’s Gansu province, sealed off the city’s residential communities and banned residents from leaving on Wednesday after allegedly detecting six cases of the Chinese coronavirus in the city of 4.4. million, the state-run Global Times reported.

Singapore, which has a Chinese coronavirus vaccination rate of 82 percent, recorded its highest single-day increase in new locally transmitted cases of the virus Tuesday with 3,994 infections.

At least 19 Chinese provinces and municipalities are offering booster shots of coronavirus vaccines to combat a recent resurgence of China’s coronavirus caseload nationwide, the state-run Global Times reported Tuesday.

New Delhi has allegedly delayed committing supplies of Covaxin, India’s first state-made Chinese coronavirus vaccine, to a World Health Organization (W.H.O.) vaccine drive after the W.H.O. on Monday said it refused to “cut corners” in granting the inoculation emergency use approval, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Zimbabwe’s federal government confirmed on Sunday that any civil servants unvaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus will be denied the right to work and be paid starting on Monday, Voice of America (VOA) reported.

New Zealand’s federal government announced a new mandate on Monday that will legally require healthcare workers and teachers to receive a full dose of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine by January 2022, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported.

Police in Berlin, Germany, recently launched an investigation into several suspected cases of “Havana Syndrome” at the capital’s U.S. Embassy, the German newspaper Der Spiegel reported Friday.

The White House said Friday that President Joe Biden’s renewed cough is the result of “allergies.”

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) recommended widespread use of the world’s first W.H.O.-approved malaria vaccine on Wednesday, advising that it be administered to children across sub-Saharan Africa.

A double amputee was mugged just hours after waking from a six-week coma and learning he had lost another leg to deep vein thrombosis.

Local government authorities in the Chinese city of Harbin euthanized three pet cats on Tuesday against their owner’s wishes after both she and the cats tested positive for coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported Wednesday.

An independent commission appointed by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) published a report on Tuesday revealing rampant sexual abuse of locals by at least 21 W.H.O. staffers responding to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from August 2018-June 2020, with one of the accused allegedly offering a woman sex in exchange for water.

China’s government on Monday vowed to “reduce non-medical abortion” in the country by 2035 as the world’s most populous nation continues efforts to boost its birth rate, which has declined in recent years.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is planning to probe the origins of the Chinese coronavirus a second time, following the organization’s failure to determine the virus’s provenance earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday.

Harbin, the capital of China’s northernmost Heilongjiang province, forbid all of its residents from leaving their homes on Wednesday as part of an effort by municipal authorities to contain the city’s first locally transmitted Chinese coronavirus outbreak since February.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said Border Patrol agents estimateda one-to-one ratio of apprehensions to got-aways among border-crossing migrants.

Amanda Milius, director of The Plot Against the President, described masked servants waiting on maskless celebrities and assorted elites as a “visual representation” of a decadent society reminiscent of fictional dystopian science fiction universes.

Brazil’s Health Ministry on Thursday urged states across the country to stop administering Chinese coronavirus vaccines to healthy adolescents aged 12-17 years old, citing an ongoing investigation into the recent death of a teenager in São Paulo state after she received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

A Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate issued by Singapore’s government in August has “segregated” the city-state and left residents who choose not to receive the inoculation feeling “ostracized,” two Singaporeans told the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Thursday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed Monday to criminalize protests outside hospitals in Canada if reelected in an upcoming parliamentary vote after hundreds of citizens opposed to Trudeau’s latest Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandates staged peaceful demonstrations and candlelight vigils outside health centers nationwide in recent days.

Putian city in southeastern China’s Fujian province sealed off more than half of its highway entry and exit points on Sunday as part of an effort by municipal authorities to contain a new, local outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, Reuters reported on Monday.

John Knox, head of Firefighters for Freedom, said a vaccine mandate imposed on city employees violates God-given constitutional rights.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged countries worldwide to stop administering booster shots of Chinese coronavirus vaccines to their populations until at least the end of 2021 as part of his ongoing efforts to preserve the global vaccine supply for use in less developed nations.

Health authorities in southern India’s Kerala state said they were monitoring 68 people under quarantine at a state hospital on Wednesday for possible exposure to the Nipah virus — far deadlier than the Chinese coronavirus — after a 12-year-old Kerala boy died from Nipah on Sunday.

Health regulators across five countries are currently investigating a prenatal test owned by the Chinese company BGI for possible violations of local data privacy laws, including allegedly sharing women’s genetic information with the Chinese military for unknown research purposes, Reuters reported Monday.

Cuba began inoculating children as young as two years old against the Chinese coronavirus on Monday with domestically produced vaccine candidates that have not received approval from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

More than 98 percent of Chinese youth hold the United States responsible for the “worsening” Chinese coronavirus pandemic, according to the results of a new Chinese government poll published by the state-run Global Times on Friday.

Foodstuffs supplied to Afghanistan by the United Nations (U.N.) World Food Programme may run out by the end of September, Ramiz Alakbarov, a U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan, warned Wednesday.

The Health Ministry of Indonesia said on Tuesday it was investigating an alleged security breach of its Chinese coronavirus contact tracing app that potentially exposed the personal identification information of more than 1.3 million users.

Communist officials in China’s Yunnan province forcibly quarantined over 5,000 residents of Jiegao district this week.

Japan’s Health Ministry on Thursday suspended the use of 1.63 million Moderna vaccine doses — used to inoculate against the Chinese coronavirus — after it received reports that an unknown foreign substance was found in some unused vials of the

A woman in eastern Afghanistan recently gave birth to quadruplets, Pajhwok Afghan News reported Thursday.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday urged the international community to delay rollouts of Chinese coronavirus booster shots in an effort to save the global vaccine supply for poorer nations.

Shanghai government officials locked down at least 6,000 residents over the weekend to contain the city’s latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak, Shanghai Daily’s online news platform, SHINE, reported Sunday.