China is dropping its requirement for a negative COVID-19 test result for international visitors beginning Wednesday in its latest step toward reopening the country. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin announced the testing update at a Monday briefing in Beijing. China has been slowly ending its pandemic-era restrictions in recent months as the world approaches […]
Chinese health officials have called out the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for his “offensive” comments in the ongoing search for the origins of COVID-19. Speaking at a news conference, the director of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shen Hongbing said that Ghebreyesus’ recent remarks were “offensive and disrespectful,” accusing […]
A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry is pinning blame on the United States for the fentanyl crisis following a letter from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asking for Chinese assistance in quelling illicit fentanyl trade. “The root cause of the overdose lies in the U.S. itself. The problem is completely ‘made in USA,’” […]
While the decision only affected English airports, the government said that despite their being no direct flights from China to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, that it was working with the devolved administrations to ensure the policy was applied UK-wide. Source link
A World Health Organization (WHO) investigation called the lab leak theory “extremely unlikely”, but after deep criticism of that investigation, the agency’s director-general called for a new inquiry, saying: “All hypotheses remain open and require further study.” Source link
Beijing hits back that the outbreak’s origin is “about science and should not be politicised”. Source link
China is ramping up its vaccination programme in response to the latest wave of Covid. Source link
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday urged China to release more information about new COVID-19 infections in the country after Beijing announced nearly 60,000 people had died from the virus since early last month. Information about the new cases and deaths provided by China to WHO reveals “a rapid and intense wave of disease” […]
Some 89% of people in Henan province have been infected but visits to clinics have peaked. Source link
Cases are surging as the country reopens after the sudden reversal of three years of restrictions. Source link