The economy of China It grew 3% in 2022, one of the lowest levels in the last 40 years, due to the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 and the crisis in the real estate sector, according to official figures released on Tuesday. Beijing had set a goal of 5.5% expansion for last year, lower than the level […]
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WHO insists that China does not give complete figures on deaths from COVID-19
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, assured this Wednesday that China is not giving complete figures on their deaths from COVID-19 in the current outbreak that it suffers, which makes it impossible to know the true scope of the disease, even on a global level. “11,500 COVID-19 deaths were […]
US extends COVID public health emergency
The Department of Health of USA extended the status of the pandemic on Wednesday COVID-19 as a public health emergency until April, allowing millions of people in the country to continue receiving tests, vaccines and treatments. The emergency was first declared in January 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic began, and has been renewed every quarter […]
China imposes retaliation for COVID-19 on South Korea and Japan
Chinese consulates in South Korea will stop issuing short-term visas for visits, business, tourism, medical care, transit and personal affairs from Tuesday, the Chinese Embassy in Seoul said in a statement. The suspension will be adjusted if South Korea removes its “discriminatory entry restrictive measures” directed at China, he added. Beijing also stopped issuing visas […]
The new subvariant of COVID-19 arrives in South Africa
The new subvariant of omicronXBB.1.5, which is spreading rapidly in USAwas detected in South Africabut the scientists of that African country are not afraid that it will lead to a “big surge” of infections. “I don’t think there will be a big wave of infections with a lot of hospitalizations in South Africa due to […]
COVID-19 soars in China after easing of restrictions
The number of COVID-19 patients is skyrocketing in Beijing, Chinese authorities reported on Monday, following a decision last week to relax health restrictions that had so far allowed the country to contain the epidemic. Until the beginning of December, only a few residents of Beijing they knew someone close to them who had been infected […]
China readies plan to end COVID flight suspensions
The State Council, which oversees China’s bureaucracy, recently asked government agencies including the civil aviation regulator to prepare to end the mechanism, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is sensitive. The system temporarily bars airlines from operating on specific routes to China for one to two weeks, depending on […]
Long COVID eases over time, but disables millions
In the first rigorous assessment of the magnitude of prolonged COVID-19 on a global scale, researchers found that 6.2% of people who had COVID-19 in the first two years of the pandemic experienced at least one of three main clusters of symptoms. months later. Of those patients, 15% were still affected after one year. Although […]
Joe Biden tests positive again for COVID-19
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, returned to test positive for COVID-19 this Saturday and will isolate himself again, although he has no new symptoms and feels well, said his doctor Kevin C. O’Connor, in a statement distributed by the White House. O’Connor attributed the positive result of Biden in COVID-19 to the […]
Global COVID-19 cases rise for fifth week in a row
Between July 4 and 10, the world registered at least 5.7 million cases of covid-19, a weekly rise of 6% and the fifth in a row, according to the epidemiological report published today by the World Health Organization. (WHO), number 100 since the start of the pandemic. Europe, with 2.8 million cases last week (4% […]