BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s latest COVID-19 outbreak is increasingly likely to spread further, a health official said on Sunday, as authorities urged all regions to step up monitoring and called for a reduction in travel across provinces.FILE PHOTO: Staff members wait outside booths where people receive a vaccine against the coronavirus…
China says will reduce the number of abortions for "non-medical purposes"
FILE PHOTO: A pregnant woman arrives for a doctors appointment at a clinic in Shanghai September 12, 2014. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaBEIJING (Reuters) – China will reduce the number of abortions performed for “non-medical purposes”, the country’s cabinet said in new guidelines issued on Monday. In measures aimed at improving women’s reproductive…
How China learned from its COVID response to quickly stamp out its latest outbreak
Cases of COVID-19 are surging around the world, but the course of the pandemic varies widely country to country. To provide you with a global view as we approach a year and a half since the official declaration of the pandemic, The Conversation editors from around the world commissioned articles…
China virus cases rise as Delta variant challenges Beijing
China’s coronavirus cases hit a seven-month high on Tuesday, after a cluster at a test site drove up numbers as the Delta variant challenges Beijing’s grip on the pandemic. State media has described the current outbreak—which has sparked local lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions—as the most severe since the…
WHO says COVID likely passed from bats to humans through another animal: AP
FILE PHOTO: Bats fly in a cave in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv July 31, 2012.REUTERS/Nir Elias (Reuters) – A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak…
China reports 11 new COVID-19 cases vs six a day earlier
FILE PHOTO: A medical worker in a protective suit collects a swab sample from a middle school student during a mass nucleic acid testing following a recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Xingtai, Hebei province, China January 6, 2021. China Daily via REUTERSBEIJING (Reuters) – China reported 11 new COVID-19…
WHO expert in Wuhan says lab leak 'very unlikely' as COVID source
Peter Ben Embarek, a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), attends the WHO-China joint study news conference at a hotel in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Aly SongWUHAN, China (Reuters) – The head of the World…
China OKs 1st homegrown coronavirus vaccine as virus surges globally
Fox News Flash top headlines for December 31 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. China authorized its first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine for general use Thursday, adding another shot that could see wide use in poorer countries as the virus surges back around the…
Coronavirus pandemic | Patients most infectious when they first feel unwell: WHO
Studies show people with the coronavirus are most infectious just at the point when they first begin to feel unwell, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Tuesday. This feature has made it so hard to control spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, but it can be done…
Intubation initiated in one in five who died of COVID-19 in china
(HealthDay)—Many patients who died from COVID-19 in China may have had delayed intubation, according to a research letter published online April 10 in JAMA Network Open. Jianfeng Xie, M.D., Ph.D., from the Zhongda Hospital at Southeast University in Nanjing, China, and colleagues analyzed data from 168 patients with COVID-19-induced pneumonia…
Coronavirus – this is the current status on Sunday morning
The Coronavirus pandemic in Europe and the US firmly in its grip: more than 20,000 people, according to official Numbers from the Saturday, in the meantime, the consequences of the Coronavirus died. In the United States, the number of dead rose to more than 2100. In the Chinese city of…