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WHO chief pushes China for ‘full access’ to find COVID’s origins, offers to send team
The chief of the World Health Organization urged Beijing to offer more information on the origins of COVID-19 and is ready to send a second team to probe the matter, the Financial Times reported on ...
WHO alerts of ‘concerning’ COVID-19 trends ahead of winter
The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned of “concerning trends” for COVID-19 ahead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, calling for increased vaccinations and surveillance.While data is ...
US First lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19, presenting symptoms
First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Monday but is experiencing only mild symptoms, her spokeswoman said. President Joe Biden was tested for the virus following his wife's positive test, ...
EU drug watchdog approves updated Pfizer COVID-19 subvariant jab
The EU’s drug watchdog on Wednesday approved an updated version of Pfizer and BioNTech’s anti COVID-19 jab to counter an infectious subvariant of the virus as winter approaches.The World Health ...
Saudi Health Ministry: No additional measures required for EG.5 coronavirus mutant
The Saudi Ministry of Health has emphasized that EG.5, the new coronavirus variant, does not have any noticeable effect on disease rates or severity, and hence it is not required to take additional ...
New Zealand removes final COVID-19 restrictions after three years
New Zealand’s government will lift all remaining COVID-19 re-quirements from midnight Tuesday, bringing an end to some of the toughest COVID-19 pandemic rules in the world more than three years after ...
WHO classifies new COVID-19 ‘variant of interest’
The World Health Organization on Wednesday classified the EG.5 coronavirus strain circulating in the United States and China as a “variant of interest” but said it did not seem to pose more of a ...
Deep dive: COVID-19 cases on the rise again, EG.5 variant appearing more frequently
COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers. For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel ...
Chinese province Zhejiang saw rise in cremations during COVID-19 surge
Cremations in the Chinese province of Zhejiang rose more than 70 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, government data showed, an unexplained jump that occurred as a COVID-19 outbreak swept the ...
UK government must hand over WhatsApp messages to COVID-19 inquiry: Court
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government must hand over internal WhatsApp messages sought by its own public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic after it lost a legal battle at London’s High ...
British police reopen an investigation into COVID breaches at Conservative Party HQ
British police will reopen an investigation into COVID-19 lockdown breaches at a December 2020 event held in the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party following an assessment of new ...
North Korea appears to lift COVID-19 mask mandate, reports say
North Korea appeared to have eased a strict COVID-19 mask mandate, media reports said this week, after state news agencies showed many people maskless.The isolated country has maintained border ...
Childhood vaccine rates show signs of recovery after COVID-19 backslide: Gavi
Childhood immunization rates began to recover last year in the world’s poorest countries after being badly hit by COVID-19 disruptions, according to the global vaccine alliance Gavi. Last ...
India probes reports of COVID-19 portal breach, data leak
India’s government is investigating reports that a health ministry portal containing personal data from anyone in the country who received a COVID-19 vaccination was breached.Across Twitter, users ...
BioNTech to defend against first German lawsuit over COVID-19 vaccine side effects
BioNTech will go to court on Monday to defend itself against a lawsuit from a German woman who is seeking damages for alleged side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine, the first of potentially hundreds of ...
Singapore’s PM Lee Hsien Loong feeling OK after testing positive for COVID-19
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time, he said in a Facebook post on Monday.“I am generally feeling ok but my doctors have advised me to ...
Biden revokes COVID-19 travel, vaccine requirements
President Joe Biden on Tuesday revoked requirements that most international visitors to the United States be vaccinated against COVID-19 as well as similar rules for federal employees and ...
WHO downgrades COVID-19 pandemic, says it’s no longer emergency
The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable ...
WHO panel to decide on COVID-19 emergency status
A panel of global health experts will meet on Thursday to decide if COVID-19 is still an emergency under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) rules, a status that helps maintain international focus ...
Mexican president Obrador says he blacked out due to COVID-19
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a video message posted on Wednesday that he briefly blacked out in a meeting in Yucatan state this past Sunday due to complications with a ...
China to scrap PCR test requirement for inbound travelers
Travelers entering China will no longer need to provide a negative PCR test result starting from Saturday, in another easing of China’s “zero-COVID” policies. Travelers can instead show a negative ...
Up to one in 20 new diabetes cases could be linked to COVID-19: Study
As many as one in 20 new cases of diabetes could be linked to COVID-19, according to a new study.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“Emerging evidence” ...
Visitors to Japan in March at post-COVID-19 high, lured by cherry blossoms
Visitors to Japan surged in March to their highest after the COVID-19 pandemic, official data showed on Wednesday, with overseas tourists flocking to see the nation’s famous cherry blossoms for the ...
‘Era has passed’ as Beijing subway drops mandatory COVID mask rule
Beijing’s subway has dropped mandatory mask requirements for travelers, local media reported on Sunday, days after a Chinese health expert said the threat of COVID-19 to humans is no longer at a ...
No evidence that COVID-19 came from animals: Former head of China CDC
There is no evidence that the COVID-causing virus came from animals, the former head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday.George Gao, who was speaking at a ...