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China Bans Rural Workers from Holiday Visits to Family amid Coronavirus Surge

The Chinese government on Sunday ordered rural migrant workers in Shaanxi province not to make their traditional annual visits to family during the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival holidays. The restrictions were part of a growing atmosphere of panic around the coronavirus outbreak in Shaanxi’s capital of Xi’an, even as the Chinese Communist regime insists a mere handful of cases have been detected.

Women wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk under red lantern

South Africa: Omicron Caused ’11 Times Fewer’ Hospitalizations than Delta

“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.

A young woman reacts as she receives a Pfizer jab against COVID-19, in Diepsloot Township