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The National Health Commission’s decision comes as the country’s health system faces enormous strain after the sudden end to the zero-Covid policyChina’s National Health Commission (NHC) has stopped publishing daily Covid-19 data, amid concerns about t…
Read MoreOfficially there are relatively low numbers of intensive care cases but ‘anecdotally ICUs are filling up’China may be struggling to keep a tally of Covid-19 infections as it experiences a big spike in cases, a senior World Health Organization official …
Read MoreUS offers assistance to China where experts warn there could be a million Covid-19 deaths in 2023It may be too early to declare the global end of the Covid-19 pandemic emergency because of a potentially devastating wave to come in China, according to s…
Read MoreSome Beijing hospitals have as many as 80% of staff infected, according to one doctor, leading to serious staff shortagesChinese doctors and nurses are being told to keep working even when infected with Covid-19, staff and residents reported, as the vi…
Read MoreSince August, 199 people have died of acute kidney injury, prompting an inquiry and ban on some medicinesA dozen families, whose relatives died or fell ill after consuming cough syrup medicines, have sued the Indonesian government and companies accused…
Read MoreDiarrhoea and malaria cases spread, with risk of dysentery and cholera, as millions of displaced people forced to drink flood waterHealth officials have warned of large-scale outbreaks of disease in Pakistan after severe flooding displaced millions of …
Read MoreWHO report has said origins of virus are still unknown and recommended further investigationChina has repeated its assertion the theory that the Covid-19 pandemic began with a leak from a Chinese laboratory is “a politically motivated lie”, after the W…
Read MoreExperts doubt state media claims that the worst is over, as WHO warns of global dangers of letting the virus spread uncheckedSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization has cast doubts on North Korea’s claims of progress in the fight …
Read MoreRegime reports another 21 deaths as fresh outbreaks of coronavirus in South Africa and US concern health officialsNorth Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has warned his country has been thrown into “great turmoil” after reporting another 21 deaths, days aft…
Read MoreDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for shift in approach as scores of Chinese cities remain in strictly enforced lockdownThe head of the World Health Organization has voiced concerns over China’s effort to eliminate the Covid virus, in a rare rebuke t…
Read MoreHealth ministry says symptoms match those of acute liver disease of ‘unknown origin’ found in almost 170 children worldwideThree children in Indonesia have died from a mysterious liver disease, the country’s health ministry has said, raising the global…
Read MoreAccording to WHO analysis, figure for country is more than 4 million and not official tally of 520,000India has been accused of attempting to delay an effort by the World Health Organization to revise the global death toll from Covid-19 after its calcu…
Read MoreUK transport secretary says testing rules for travellers into country will change from 4am on 11 February; new France rules come into forceBoris Johnson faces fresh outrage over lockdown birthday partyA full list of alleged UK government Covid rule-bus…
Read MoreScientific consensus absent as impasse between China and west continues to hamper tracing effortCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRobert Garry, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane medical school in Louisiana, …
Read MoreFour people are named and shamed – a banned practice – in city of Jingxi; WHO warns of ‘trade-off’ as countries cut back on isolation periodsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageArmed police in Jingxi, in southern China, have par…
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