by owner | May 17, 2022 | China, News
BEIJING (AP) — Administrators at an elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. Graduate...
by owner | May 16, 2022 | North Korea
This time last week, North Korea was still claiming to be one of three COVID-free countries worldwide. Now it’s facing a public health catastrophe It took almost two and a half years for SARS-CoV-2 to travel from the Chinese city of Wuhan to the North Korean capital...
by owner | May 15, 2022 | News, North Korea
For almost two-and-a-half years, North Korea has stuck to its claim it has seen no cases of Covid-19. Not any more. This week, the country confirmed its first infections. The highly reclusive nation had responded to the pandemic by closing its borders, although...
by owner | May 6, 2022 | China, News
BEIJING: China’s top leaders warned against questioning Xi Jinping’s Covid Zero strategy, striking a more defensive tone as pressure builds to relax virus curbs and protect the economic growth that has long been a source of Communist Party strength.The...
by owner | Apr 14, 2022 | Malaysia, Medicine
KUALA LUMPUR: With new Covid-19 variants emerging amid easing pandemic restrictions, some are concerned about waning immunity and have called for a second vaccine booster dose (fourth jab) to increase protection levels. Experts and the public, however, are...
by owner | Mar 23, 2022 | Asia, Europe, News
LOS ANGELES – With coronavirus cases rising in parts of Europe and Asia, scientists worry that an extra-contagious version of the omicron variant may soon push cases up in the United States too. Experts are also keeping their eyes on another mutant: a...
