TOKYO (Reuters) – No plans have been set for a summit of the top leaders of Japan and South Korea, a top Japanese official said on Thursday, after the South Korean president signalled his intention to improve the neighbours’ strained ties before his term ends in May. The comment by Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Hirokazu …
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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – Vaccination rates are rising sharply among the elderly in Hong Kong, lifting from a relatively low base as an Omicron-fuelled spike in new COVID-19 cases and looming vaccine passes pierce long-standing inoculation complacency among the demographic. The global financial hub had been able to keep the coronavirus pandemic …
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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – The COVAX global COVID-19 vaccine-sharing programme has scaled back the number of doses allocated for North Korea, international aid organisations said, as the country has so far failed to arrange for any shipments. A website dashboard maintained by the United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, shows the number of doses …
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By Martin Quin Pollard and David Kirton BEIJING (Reuters) – Four years after she was discovered by national team scouts as a junior provincial champion in the long jump and triple jump, 19-year-old Zhao Dan will this week launch herself head-first down a serpentine frozen track as a skeleton slider. The native of Hohhot in …
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HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam warned on Thursday that its healthcare system could become overloaded, after seeing a surge in new daily coronavirus infections following its week-long Lunar New Year holiday. The Southeast Asian country reported nearly 24,000 new cases on Wednesday, compared to about 15,000 per day in the week before the annual holiday, when …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s largest social media platforms including Weibo and Douyin said they have deleted tens of thousands of posts for abusing athletes and spreading rumours on the Winter Olympics, in an effort to clean-up “illegal” chatter around the Games, Chinese authorities stringently censor any content that they believe violates “core socialist values” and …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s biggest wave of COVID-19 cases to date is showing signs of peaking though authorities are extending virus curbs into next month to try to bring down the rate of hospitalisations. Top medical adviser Shigeru Omi said on Thursday that health centres would shift towards focusing on care for the elderly and those …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong health authorities are expected to report 986 COVID-19 cases on Thursday, down slightly from the previous day’s record of 1,161 cases, broadcaster TVB reported, citing an unnamed source. (Reporting by Marius Zaharia; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee said on Thursday that a total of 9 new COVID-19 cases were detected among games-related personnel on Feb 9. Six of the cases were found among new airport arrivals, according to a notice on the Beijing 2022 official website. Three others were among those already …
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By David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Even as America’s top diplomat visits the Pacific region seeking to counter China’s growing power and influence, the Washington ambassador of the tiny Marshall Islands said talks aimed at renewing agreements covering access for the U.S. military have stalled. The envoy, Gerald Zackios, told Reuters there …
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