BEIJING (Reuters) -Germans living in China began receiving the BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, the first such rollout of a foreign coronavirus vaccine in a country that has not otherwise approved the use of non-Chinese vaccines even as infections soar. Under an agreement reached during a visit to Beijing by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in November, …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization received data from China on new COVID-19 hospitalisations after a reporting gap, with figures on Thursday showing a nearly 50% increase in the week to Jan. 1. The U.N. health agency received no data from China in the weeks after Beijing lifted its zero-COVID policy in early December, prompting …
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HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s National Assembly, the country’s lawmaking body, on Thursday voted to dismiss two deputy prime ministers from their posts, a government statement said, in what analysts suspect is a new escalation in the country’s anti-corruption crackdown. There was no explanation of parliament’s decision to remove Pham Binh Minh and Vu Duc Dam, …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India detected a total of 11 variants of COVID-19 in international travellers who arrived in the country during Dec. 24 to Jan. 3, health ministry sources said on Thursday. Of the 19,227 passengers who were tested for COVID-19 during the period, 124 were found positive, the sources said. (This story has …
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By Charlotte Greenfield and Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) – In a bitterly cold bedroom at the start of winter in Kabul, 22-year Maryam sat with her baby son bundled up in a red jumper as he coughed days after being discharged for the third time from a hospital ward for suspected pneumonia. Every time …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) -China will reopen the border with its special administrative region of Hong Kong on Sunday for the first time in three years, as it accelerates the unwinding of stringent COVID rules that have battered its economic growth. The opening will bring the resumption of quarantine-free travel between the financial hub and the …
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(Reuters) – Myanmar’s junta has freed a former minister in the ousted government of Aung Sang Suu Kyi and a well-known writer among political detainees given amnesty to mark the country’s independence day, according to relatives and media. State broadcaster MRTV said on Wednesday that 7,012 prisoners were due to be released under the amnesty, …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union government officials recommended on Wednesday that passengers flying from China to the EU should have a negative COVID-19 test before they board, as Beijing plans to ease travel restrictions despite a wave of new COVID infections. The recommendation comes from the EU’s Integrated Political Crisis Response group (IPCR), which is a …
HEBRON, Ky. (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he was concerned by how China was handling the COVID-19 pandemic. China’s COVID-19 data is not giving an accurate picture of the situation there and under represents the number of hospitalizations and deaths from the disease, a senior official at the World Health Organization …
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By Jennifer Rigby and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) -China’s COVID-19 data is not giving an accurate picture of the situation there and underrepresents the number of hospitalisations and deaths from the disease, a senior official at the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The U.N. agency was preparing to meet Chinese scientists again on Thursday …
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