カテゴリー: Infectious diseases
Italy urges action at European level as more than 50% of recent arrivals from China test positive at Milan airportMember states of the European Union have resisted pressure from Italy to immediately impose mandatory anti-Covid checks on travellers ente…
Other countries including Italy have taken similar steps after Beijing’s rollback of ‘zero-Covid’ policies led to surge in casesThe US has announced all travellers from China must provide a negative Covid-19 test to enter the country, joining other nat…
China is to drop some of its toughest coronavirus restrictions – including scrapping quarantine for travellers – ending the government’s zero-Covid policy. Experts are watching nervously to see how this may affect variants and their global spread….
With one of the lowest coronavirus tolls in the world, China has been routinely accused of downplaying infections and deaths for political reasonsThe sudden end to China’s controversial zero-Covid strategy caught the country’s fragile health system unp…
Officially 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 …
US 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…
State media reports on increased efforts to boost health infrastructure, staffing and suppliesChinese authorities are rushing to boost the number of intensive care beds and health workers and increase medication supplies as Covid-19 surges through the …
Chief epidemiologist says China is in the first of an expected three waves of Covid cases, despite official figures showing low numbersChinese authorities have warned of successive waves of Covid infections over the coming months, as cases continue to …
In 2019, the world’s first Covid case was detected in Wuhan. This month China abruptly shifted away from efforts to eliminate the virusChina’s zero-Covid policy explained in 30 secondsAcross China Covid testing stations are being dismantled. Barricades…
One Shanghai resident describes the feeling of liberation as Covid restrictions are lifted, while remaining nervous about the coming waveThe easing of Covid restrictions over the past week has happened almost as quickly as the abrupt measures to lock d…
Health authorities sound warning on infection rate, with hundreds of thousands of doctors redeployed across the countryChina has announced plans to scrap its primary Covid tracking app in the latest rollback of pandemic control measures, just days afte…
Low rate of vaccination of elderly and a lack of natural immunity mean country may be in for a bumpy rideBeijing’s abrupt dismantling of zero-Covid controls has been welcomed by economists, even as the country braces itself for the human impact of lett…
New Zealand needs a robust debate about the success of its elimination strategy in 2020, and the messy failure in late 2021It’s hard to describe just how good New Zealand felt as summer began at the end of 2020.Aotearoa had seemingly got through the pa…
New Zealand high court case has become a focus of protests from anti-vaxxersA New Zealand high court judge has ruled in favour of health authorities who sought guardianship of a baby boy after his parents refused to consent to a transfusion of “vaccina…
Despite daily Covid-19 cases near all-time highs and recent protests over lockdowns, US intelligence see no threat to Xi’s stabilityChinese leader Xi Jinping is unwilling to accept western vaccines despite the challenges China is facing with Covid-19, …