LONDON/GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it recommended that China monitor excess mortality from Covid-19 to gain a fuller picture of the impact of the surge in cases there.China said on Saturday that nearly 60,000 people with Covid-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-CovidContinue Reading
GENEVA: The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the XBB.1.5 Omicron sub-variant of Covid-19 may be spurring more cases.“Based on its genetic characteristics and early growth rate estimates, XBB.1.5 may contribute to increases in case incidence,” the WHO said after a January 5 technical meeting.However, it said that itContinue Reading
BEIJING: China lifted quarantine requirements for inbound travellers on Sunday, ending almost three years of self-imposed isolation even as the country battles a surge in Covid cases.Beijing last month began a dramatic dismantling of a hardline zero-Covid strategy that had enforced mandatory quarantines and gruelling lockdowns.The containment policy had aContinue Reading
China reported 218,019 new weekly Covid-19 cases as of Jan. 1, the World Health Organization in its weekly report said, as the country is battling a surge in the cases of the virus.China reported five new deaths related to Covid-19 for Tuesday, bringing the official death toll to 5,258, veryContinue Reading
BEIJING: France and Britain on Friday joined a growing list of nations imposing Covid tests on travelers from China, and the World Health Organization pressed Beijing to be more forthcoming on real-time data amid an explosion of cases there.Spain, South Korea and Israel also said they would require proof ofContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the US since the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020 has surpassed the 100 million mark, accounting for the highest number in the world, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University.As of Wednesday, the country’s overall caseload stood atContinue Reading
GENEVA: World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday called on China to share the requested data concerning Covid-19 in a bid to understand the origins of the virus. “We continue to call on China to share the data and conduct the studies that we have requested, toContinue Reading
BEIJING: One of China’s top health experts has warned of a surge in Covid-19 cases, state media said Sunday, in the wake of the government’s decision to abandon its hardline coronavirus strategy. Shops and restaurants in Beijing are deserted as the country awaits a spike in infections following the decisionContinue Reading
BEIJING: China announced 10 new measures for dealing with Covid-19 on Wednesday, accelerating its shift away from the zero-tolerance stance that has kept the country isolated from the rest of the world and devastated the economy over the last three years. The new direction comes less than two weeks afterContinue Reading
NEW YORK: The World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that gaps in surveillance, testing, sequencing and vaccination for Covid-19 continue to create “the perfect conditions for a new variant of concern to emerge”. Source linkContinue Reading