three years after China announced his first death by coviddoubts persist about whether Beijing is sharing real data on the extent of the current wave of infections that the country is going through after its decision to manage the epidemic more laxly. Three years ago now, on January 11, 2020, China reported the death of […]
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Canada and Australia impose COVID rules on travelers from China
Australia and Canada have joined the growing list of countries requiring travelers from China pass a COVID-19 test before boarding their flight, as the nation battles a coronavirus outbreak after abruptly easing restrictions that had been in place for most of the pandemic. Australian health authorities said on Sunday that from January 5 all passengers […]
Confinement in Shanghai: the effects generated by the zero COVID policy in China
A BBC Mundo article recounts the vicissitudes that a Colombian woman lives in China -specifically in Shanghai due to confinement due to COVID cases. She affirms – to the BBC – that she had “never” experienced a situation like the current one. This is his story: early Monday morning, Chinese police knocked on the door […]
COVID: The United Kingdom will start its booster vaccination program tomorrow with a fourth dose
Updated on 03/20/2022 09:09 am The United Kingdom Public Health Service (NHS) will offer from tomorrow, Monday, in this country a new booster vaccine -or fourth dose- against COVID to groups considered vulnerable. Around 5 million citizens are expected to get the additional injection and around 600,000 will be invited to get the new booster […]
China tightens confinement due to COVID rebound: Jilin residents will not be able to leave their homes
Chinese authorities announced a tightening of lockdown measures in the country’s northeast on Sunday, just as the southern metropolis of Shenzhen was preparing to lift its restrictions. The The Asian country registered 4,053 new cases of COVID this Sunday, two-thirds of them in Jilin, a province bordering North Korea and Russia. The inhabitants of the […]
China changes its economic policy to support activity after COVID and market decline
Faced with the return of the pandemic and the fall of the markets, China had to promise that it would support the activity, even if it means changing the course of its economic policy. “Concrete measures must be taken to strengthen the economy in the first quarter”: this phrase, pronounced on Wednesday after a government […]
China locks down Shenzhen city of 17 million after record outbreak of COVID cases in two years
China announced this Sunday the confinement of the southern city of Shenzhen, with 17 million inhabitants, due to the increase in COVID cases in recent days, the municipal government said in a statement. Residents of Shenzhen, one of the country’s main technology hubs and home to companies such as Huawei and Tencent, will have to […]
Scientists identify new genetic differences in patients with severe COVID
Updated on 03/07/2022 01:10 pm Scientists have identified 16 new gene variants in people who developed severe COVID-19 in a large study that could help researchers develop treatments for very sick patients. The results suggest that people with severe COVID have genes that predispose them to one of two problems: an inability to limit the […]
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID is less effective in children between 5 and 11 years old
Two doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine protected children ages 5 to 11 against severe omicron disease, but immunizing capacity was rapidly lost in much of this age group, according to a study. study conducted by New York State researchers. Vaccine efficacy against infection among those children dropped to 12% in late January from […]
Lessons from Ecuador for the world on COVID management
Ecuador is beginning to vaccinate children ages three and older—they are likely to continue the campaign with even younger children—and is easing COVID restrictions. It’s a stunning turnaround for a health care system that was so overwhelmed at the start of the pandemic that desperate people had to leave the plastic-wrapped corpses of loved ones […]