Wuhan, locked down one of its central districts after Covid cases were found, as China persists with a zero-tolerance approach to the virus almost three years since the pathogen first emerged in the city. The roughly 900,000 residents of Hanyang district were told to stay in their homes from Wednesday, a spokeswoman from the area’s …
Chinese President Xi Jinping touted his country’s “zero-COVID” strategy at the just concluded Communist Party’s National Congress, dashing any hopes that China’s rigid regime of quarantines, mass testing, and lockdowns may soon come to an end. www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-climate-justice-ethical-mask-wearers-and-cdc-under-trump The strategy has crimped the economy, and public health experts say the obstacles to lifting it are now …
China reported its first case of monkeypox, imported to the giant municipality of Chongqing, as the country continues its long and arduous battle against Covid-19. The patient was immediately put into quarantine after arriving in Chongqing and the risk of an outbreak is low, the local health commission said in a statement on its website …
China has restricted domestic travel as COVID outbreaks grow. China is stepping up its COVID defences as a key Communist Party meeting looms, restricting internal travel further as swathes of the country remain under tight lockdowns. The National Health Commission on Thursday announced a raft of measures that will be in place until the end …
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China has locked down Chengdu, one of its biggest and most economically important cities, as it turns once again to its COVID strategy of restricting people’s movements to stop outbreaks. www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/world/asia/china-covid-lockdown-chengdu.html Starting at 6 p.m. last Thursday, residents in the city of more than 21 million were no longer allowed to leave their homes without …
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The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has raised concerns surrounding the ‘Cat-Que virus’ (CQV), noting the potential that the virus could spread from China, causing a disease outbreak in India. The disease is present in pigs and is primarily spread by Culex (Cx.) mosquitoes. However “data showed that Indian mosquitoes (Ae. aegypti, Cx. quinquefasciatus …
China has announced its intention to provide its citizens in India with access to special flights leaving the country. Such a move comes against a backdrop of ongoing difficulties between the two nations. These difficulties have manifested in border conflicts, with accusations of transgressions into Indian territory by Chinese military forces. Simultaneously, however, Chinese charities …
The Union Government has sought to quell concerns over an imminent shortage of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and medicines in the country due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. However, individuals from the pharmaceutical sector are still disconcerted. The outbreak has had a kn0ck-on effect on multiple industries in India. As well as pharma, chemicals, …
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India has reported six novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases to date, three of which are active. The news comes as the COVID-19 outbreak continues to spark panic worldwide with tens of thousands infected and thousands having lost their lives. The earliest COVID-19 cases in India were reported in three students who had been returned to Kerala …
Fresh confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in India have been reported – one in the national capital of Delhi and one in the Telangana state capital Hyderabad. The COVID-19 outbreak originated in Wuhan, the capital city of China’s Hubei province. At the time of writing, there are 89,798 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The …
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