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UK not planning COVID testing for travellers from China

(Reuters) -Britain has no plans to bring back COVID-19 testing for those coming into the country, a...

29th December, 2022

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‘The ICU is full’: medical staff on frontline of China’s COVID fight say hospitals are ‘overwhelmed’

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing...

26th December, 2022

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China races to bolster health system as COVID surge sparks global concern

By Bernard Orr and Xinghui Kok BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Cities across China scrambled to install...

20th December, 2022

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Queues form at fever clinics as China wrestles with COVID surge

By Eduardo Baptista and Josh Ye BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -People queued outside fever clinics at...

12th December, 2022

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WHO chief Tedros selects new leadership team, document shows

By Emma Farge and Jennifer Rigby GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s chief has provis...

2nd December, 2022

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Ambulance workers to strike, further disrupting UK health service

By Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s health service faces further disruption in December a...

1st December, 2022

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Pfizer/BioNTech’s updated COVID shot shows strong response against BQ.1.1

(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE said on Friday their Omicron-tailored shot...

18th November, 2022

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Explainer-How the World Health Organization might fight future pandemics

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Negotiations on new rules for dealing with pandemics are underway a...

18th November, 2022

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New China COVID rules spur concern as some cities halt routine tests

By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -Several Chinese cities began cutting routine community COVID-19 testin...

14th November, 2022

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Trauma of South Korea Halloween party crush is pervasive, expert says

By Daewoung Kim and Hanna Song SEOUL (Reuters) – As South Korea mourns the deaths of more than 150 p...

2nd November, 2022

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Shaken by heatwaves, U.S. clinics get tips on staying cool

By David Sherfinski NAGS HEAD, North Carolina (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The day a patient colla...

5th October, 2022

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France’s 8th wave of COVID is gaining in intensity – health official

PARIS (Reuters) – France has entered an eighth wave of the COVID-19 virus, as the winter season appr...

4th October, 2022