Infectious diseases
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EU states resist joining Italy on Covid testing for arrivals from China
Italy urges action at European level as more than 50% of recent arrivals from China test positive at Milan air…
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US to require arrivals from China to provide negative Covid test
Other countries including Italy have taken similar steps after Beijing’s rollback of ‘zero-Covid’ policies led…
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China’s dropping of zero-Covid rule sparks concern about new variants – video report
China is to drop some of its toughest coronavirus restrictions – including scrapping quarantine for trave…
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How accurate are China’s Covid death numbers?
With one of the lowest coronavirus tolls in the world, China has been routinely accused of downplaying infecti…
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China ‘behind the curve’ in reporting Covid surge, WHO says
Officially there are relatively low numbers of intensive care cases but ‘anecdotally ICUs are filling up’China…
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China Covid infection surge puts end of global emergency in doubt – WHO
US offers assistance to China where experts warn there could be a million Covid-19 deaths in 2023It may be too…
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China rushes to boost intensive care beds, doctors and stocks of medicine as Covid surges
State media reports on increased efforts to boost health infrastructure, staffing and suppliesChinese authorit…
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China’s cities fall quiet amid warning of three Covid waves over winter
Chief epidemiologist says China is in the first of an expected three waves of Covid cases, despite official fi…
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From zero-tolerance into the unknown – a visual guide to three years of Covid in China
In 2019, the world’s first Covid case was detected in Wuhan. This month China abruptly shifted away from effor…
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Relief and confusion: inside China as the country hurtles from virus-free to mass infections
One Shanghai resident describes the feeling of liberation as Covid restrictions are lifted, while remaining ne…
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China scraps tracking app as zero-Covid policy is dismantled
Health authorities sound warning on infection rate, with hundreds of thousands of doctors redeployed across th…
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Economists hail end to zero Covid in China but huge human toll is feared
Low rate of vaccination of elderly and a lack of natural immunity mean country may be in for a bumpy rideBeiji…
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A royal commission gives New Zealand a chance to reckon with what Covid did to us | Henry Cooke
New Zealand needs a robust debate about the success of its elimination strategy in 2020, and the messy failure…
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Health officials gain guardianship of baby whose parents refused ‘vaccinated blood’ transfusion
New Zealand high court case has become a focus of protests from anti-vaxxersA New Zealand high court judge has…
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China’s Xi Jinping ‘unwilling’ to accept western Covid vaccines says US intelligence chief
Despite daily Covid-19 cases near all-time highs and recent protests over lockdowns, US intelligence see no th…