Monkeypox & Corona Updates

Funeral homes across China's Covid-hit capital Beijing, a city of 22 million, scrambled on Saturday to keep up with calls for funeral and cremation services as workers and drivers testing positive for the novel coronavirus called in sick.…
Read More...

Administrators of the Xiangfu Nursing Home, a high-end facility for the elderly in Shanghai’s Changning district, are struggling to keep pace with the abrupt end of China’s Covid Zero policy. Their simple solution for now: shut the doors.…
Read More...

More than 2 million people in China may die from Covid-19 as the government rapidly abandons pandemic curbs, according to a new study by researchers in Hong Kong. In the absence of a mass vaccination booster campaign and other measures to…
Read More...

Beijing will grant German nationals living in China access to mRNA vaccines produced by the European country, according to the foreign ministry. “China and Germany have reached agreement on providing German vaccines for German nationals in…
Read More...

Shanghai on Thursday announced measures as part of the implementation of China's 10 new steps for optimizing the COVID-19 response. From Friday, negative COVID test certificates are not needed for indoor entertainment venues and…
Read More...

China’s capital Beijing no longer requires people that enter supermarkets and commercial buildings to show negative COVID-19 tests on their mobile phones, the city government said in a statement on Tuesday. However, the city still requires…
Read More...

Cities across China further unwound Covid restrictions on Friday, loosening testing and quarantine rules in the wake of nationwide protests calling for an end to lockdowns and greater political freedoms. Anger and frustration with China’s…
Read More...

China reported a record high in daily Covid-19 infections on Thursday as it imposed localised lockdowns in several cities including in Beijing and local authorities struggled to control the surging outbreak, given the promise of easing the…
Read More...

The World Health Organization is planning to rename monkeypox, designating it as “MPOX” in an effort to destigmatize the virus that gained a foothold in the United States earlier this year, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing people with…
Read More...

A single dose of the monkeypox vaccine provides 78% protection against the virus, according to data from England released on Tuesday that health officials said was the strongest evidence yet of its effectiveness. Monkeypox cases have…
Read More...