The New York Times editorial board has finally admitted that coronavirus-related school closures “may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education” in a Sunday opinion piece.
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced on Tuesday that a seven-day mandatory coronavirus isolation period will be kept in place through the end of 2023, and possibly beyond.
The Chinese province of Zhejiang, an industrial hub located southwest of Shanghai, reported a million new coronavirus infections on Christmas Day – and expected that caseload to double by New Year’s Eve. Anecdotal reports of overwhelmed hospitals continue slipping past Chinese censors to reach foreign reporters and social media, even though the regime in Beijing continues to insist it has suffered absolutely no Covid-19 fatalities over the past five days.
Chinese officials on Wednesday announced a one-week coronavirus lockdown in the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone, the district where Foxconn Technology Group’s massive iPhone assembly plant is located.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Wednesday that at least 22 people died from starvation or lack of medical attention in a single day under China’s brutal coronavirus lockdown in Ghulja, a city in the Uyghur region of East Turkistan.
Chinese state media on Sunday reported 27 people were killed in an early-morning bus crash on an expressway in Guizhou province. Outrage spread across China when officials confirmed the bus was hauling captive “epidemic-related people” to a quarantine camp over 125 miles from their homes.
The huge Chinese city of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, extended its coronavirus lockdown and mass testing program on Sunday, trapping most of its 21 million citizens in their homes.
The government “doesn’t know” if travel restrictions imposed during lockdown prevented the spread of the virus, a report from MPs found.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday used the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) controversial declaration of a global monkeypox emergency to demand quarantines for the disease, throwing in some sneers at the Western world for trying to live with the Wuhan coronavirus instead of imposing the devastating citywide “zero-Covid” lockdowns China insists upon.
The Canadian government has admitted that some travellers were erroneously told to go into quarantine upon arriving in Canada due to glitches in the Trudeau government’s ArriveCAN app.
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.
Shanghai health officials on Thursday announced the discovery of seven new coronavirus cases, to the consternation of residents who fear the brutal two-month lockdown that ended only a day ago could be re-imposed at any time.
The Italian government is set to end the use of quarantine ships for migrants arriving in Italy by sea as migrant arrivals rise. While just two of the original five quarantine ships are still in use by the government, Italy
Chinese health officials recently transferred more than 1,800 residents of Beijing’s Haidian district to nearby hotels used to accommodate participants of the 2022 Winter Olympics in February as part of a mass quarantine effort to contain transmissions of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run Global Times reported on Monday.
After discovering four positive cases of monkeypox, Belgian health authorities have placed those with confirmed cases of the virus into a 21-day quarantine. As of Sunday, Belgian authorities announced four confirmed cases of the virus and have called on anyone
China’s ruling Communist Party recently vowed to allocate additional resources toward its Chinese coronavirus “zero-tolerance” policy on Monday including plans to build “permanent quarantine facilities,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
Beijing’s government on Sunday reopened a makeshift hospital — previously used to treat Chinese coronavirus patients in early 2020 — to quarantine at least 12 Chinese coronavirus patients as part of the city’s effort to contain its latest outbreak of the disease, the state-run Global Times reported.
Videos posted from Shanghai this week show Chinese police and health officials growing increasingly short-tempered and physical with the city’s 26 million desperate residents, now in the third week of a coronavirus lockdown that was only supposed to last a few days.
Shanghai’s government announced on Wednesday limited “exceptions” to a policy separating children from their parents during Chinese coronavirus quarantines mandated by the state.
China used massive transport planes to fly hundreds of military personnel into Shanghai on Sunday to assist with a three-day mass coronavirus testing program for the city’s 26 million imprisoned residents.
China is reportedly keeping coronavirus-positive winter Olympians in “unreasonable” quarantine conditions.
New Zealand – which has had some of the toughest coronavirus restrictions in the world – announced Thursday it will begin to relax its border controls by the end of this month.
China recorded 32 more coronavirus cases linked to the Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday, including 17 inside the “closed loop” or “bubble” meant to separate Olympic venues from the rest of the city. 11 Beijing Games personnel are now hospitalized with Chinese coronavirus.
Charlotte Bellis, a 35-year-old pregnant New Zealand journalist abandoned in Afghanistan by her own left-wing government due to its coronavirus quarantine rules, said on Saturday she had no alternative but to ask the Taliban for help.
Chinese officials on Sunday claimed to have discovered 119 coronavirus infections among athletes and staff at the Beijing Winter Olympics, including 37 new cases on Sunday.
Chinese state media on Sunday reported more lockdowns and mass testing programs in Beijing neighborhoods as the first group of athletes and staff arrived at the Olympic village.
A woman is getting a lot of attention for video of herself isolating in a plane’s bathroom after she tested positive for the coronavirus during the flight.
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday backed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) five-day quarantine guidance to improve the nations economy.
The establishment media on Wednesday cast doubt on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) shortened five-day quarantine guidance over concerns the updated rules are driven by money and not science.
Oprah Winfrey publicly shamed her BFF, CBS News host Gayle King for not jumping through enough coronavirus hoops to attend her holiday party. “Everyone who is spending Christmas at my house has to be vaccinated, boosted, tested, and quarantined,” Winfrey affirmed, adding that King will “join us once she completes the policy!”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated the recommended time for isolation and quarantine periods for those infected with or exposed to the coronavirus.
VIENNA (AP) – Germany is tightening travel restrictions for people coming from Britain in response to the rapid spread of the omicron variant there.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has come under fire after his office announced his wife and children were going on vacation abroad, contravening the Israeli leader’s recommendations to avoid all travel overseas.
Police in Queensland, Australia, charged a woman with arson on Sunday after she allegedly set fire to a hotel room in which she was quarantined according to state coronavirus protocol, Australia’s Seven News reported Monday.
BA has temporarily suspended flights to Hong Kong in order to avoid the risk of any more crews being sent to a notorious quarantine centre.
Israel has barred entry to all foreign nationals and has ordered all returning citizens to quarantine regardless of their vaccination status, as part of the world’s most aggressive effort to stave off the new Omicron variant.
China’s latest coronavirus outbreak forced more than 20 Shanghai hospitals to “suspend out-patient and emergency medical services” on Friday “for epidemic prevention and screening,” China’s state-run Global Times reported.
The UK announced that it was banning flights from South Africa and five other southern African countries effective at noon on Friday, and that anyone who had recently arrived from those countries would be asked to take a coronavirus test.
Hong Kong has a very strict 21-day coronavirus quarantine rule for international visitors, but the rule was waived for JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon when he arrived by private jet on Monday.
A municipal health worker in southeastern China’s Shangrao city beat a woman’s pet dog to death with a crowbar on Friday while the woman was undergoing a state-run coronavirus quarantine outside her residence, Taiwan News reported Monday, citing security camera footage from inside the woman’s home that captured the incident.
