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Sars-related coronaviruses infect around 66,000 people a year in S-E Asia

August 10, 2022 1:17 PM

Parts of China, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam have the highest diversity of bat species that host Sars-like coronaviruses.
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China orders up 3,000 hospital beds to contain Covid-19 outbreak in Tibet

August 11, 2022 9:02 AM

Lhasa has been on lockdown as Tibet sees its first ever coronavirus infections.
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Pandemic deepened political divisions in most nations - but not in Singapore, survey finds

August 12, 2022 12:44 PM

Most respondents in Singapore, Hungary, Israel and Sweden felt that their country's handling of the coronavirus showed their nations' strengths.
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China's jobless turn to car boot sales as coronavirus-hit economy stalls

August 24, 2022 9:36 AM

BEIJING (REUTERS) - When the Covid-19 pandemic forced Wang Wei to shut his tourism company, the Tianjin native poured his life-savings of 80,000 yuan (S$16,300) into selling coffee from the back of his green Suzuki micro van in the Chinese capital Beijing.
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Hong Kong renews limited curbs as Covid-19 outbreak gains pace

August 26, 2022 6:57 PM

Health chief: No living with the coronavirus; ‘every life matters’.
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New Australian research centre aims to speed up pandemic drug discovery

August 31, 2022 8:50 AM

It aims to find new ways of treating and ultimately stopping viruses from HIV to coronaviruses.
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China reports 1,695 Covid-19 cases compared to 1,610 a day earlier

September 07, 2022 9:31 AM

SHANGHAI China reported 1,695 new coronavirus cases for Sept 6, of which 380 were symptomatic and 1,315 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Wednesday.
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Dragon boat contest ditches Hong Kong over Covid-19 restrictions

September 17, 2022 8:27 PM

HONG KONG - The world's top dragon boat competition will ditch Hong Kong in favour of Thailand next year due to the city's stringent coronavirus rules, organisers announced on Saturday.
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China plans easier border entry rules for some foreign tourists

September 19, 2022 5:50 PM

China has shut its borders to foreign tourists since the outbreak of the new coronavirus in 2020.
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Hong Kong government to further ease coronavirus measures

September 30, 2022 4:03 PM

HONG KONG - The Hong Kong government said on Friday it aims to ease some coronavirus curbs in an orderly way as pandemic trends in the Asia financial hub were continuing to stabilise.
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Hong Kong leader tests positive for Covid-19 after Apec summit

November 21, 2022 8:39 AM

Hong Kong is seeing more infections after easing back on two years of draconian curbs, though not yet to the point of living with the coronavirus.
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IMF chief praises China's 'decisive' move away from zero-Covid

December 09, 2022 3:49 PM

Beijing on Wednesday announced a loosening of its zero-tolerance approach to coronavirus outbreaks.
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The coronavirus may spread from corpses, scientists report

December 16, 2022 12:39 AM

Bereaved family members should exercise caution, experts warn.
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Scientists in China crack coronavirus evolution code

December 22, 2022 11:30 AM

It could help researchers develop broad-spectrum Covid-19 vaccines and drugs, said the study published in Nature.
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Japan to tighten Covid-19 border controls for travellers from China

January 04, 2023 5:06 PM

Additional measures will require negative coronavirus tests before passengers board direct flights from China.
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Chinese fret over infecting elderly kin as holidays prompt Covid-19 warnings

January 12, 2023 12:19 PM

They are caught in a dilemma: return home or keep their grandparents safe from the coronavirus.
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China finds no new Covid-19 variants but mutation threat lingers

January 14, 2023 3:32 PM

Coronavirus mutations may yet still emerge that could be devastating.
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Hong Kong economy shrank 3.5% in 2022

February 01, 2023 7:05 PM

HONG KONG - Hong Kong’s economy shrank by 3.5 per cent in 2022, with exports plunging and the city’s worst-ever coronavirus outbreak battering businesses, the government announced Wednesday, while saying it hoped China’s reopening would spur a recovery.
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Surge in respiratory illnesses in China not linked to Covid-19: Experts

December 01, 2023 12:35 PM

The surge comes in the first full winter since China lifted the stringent coronavirus restrictions it imposed in 2020.
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Chinese COVID whistleblower due for release after 4 years in jail

Authorities in China were expected on Monday to release a citizen journalist jailed for four years after she documented the early phases of the coronavirus outbreak from the central city of Wuhan in 2020.
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