Canada to impose mandatory COVID tests for travelers from China
Air travelers to Canada from China must test negative for COVID-19 no more than two days before departure, Ottawa said on Saturday, joining other n…
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Over 40% of US COVID cases caused by Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5
Over 40% of COVID-19 cases in the United States are now caused by the highly contagious Omicron XBB.1.5, data from the US Centers for Disease Contro…
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Covid-19 threat: CAA begins screening at Islamabad airport
ISLAMABAD: Amid the threat of Covid-19 spread, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has begun screening passengers at the Islamabad International airp…
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France latest nation to impose Covid tests on travelers from China
France on Friday joined a growing list of nations imposing Covid tests on travellers from China, after Beijing dropped foreign travel curbs despite …
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Molnupiravir: China grants conditional approval for COVID treatment
China has granted conditional approval for the import of Merck’s COVID-19 treatment Molnupiravir, China’s medical products regulator said on Friday.…
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Hershey sued over chocolate containing lead and cadmium
Hershey has been sued by a consumer who accused the company of selling dark chocolate that contains harmful levels of lead and cadmium. In a propos…
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Covid’s true death toll still elusive, three years in
The true global death toll of Covid-19 remains difficult to nail down three years after the first case was detected, though experts agree there have…
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Recapping 2022: for sense of what 2023 might look like
The past is premise to the future, and thus what oncoming year 2023 might bring to us, is largely predicate on what it is inheriting from outgoing 2…
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Marion Biotech halts production after syrup linked to Uzbekistan deaths
India’s drug regulator said on Thursday that it had inspected Marion Biotech’s production facility and promised more action based on the probe repor…
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Sindh to screen all China arrivals for Covid-19
KARACHI: Sindh is making Covid-19 tests for visitors from China mandatory following an explosion in cases in China, the provincial health ministry s…
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Soaring China Covid cases increase risk of new variants: experts
An explosion of Covid-19 cases in China as the country lifts its zero-Covid measures could create a “potential breeding ground” for new variants to …
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Pakistan decides to intensify Covid screening at airports
Pakistan has decided to intensify the Covid screening of inbound passengers at airports after the spread of Covid variants across the world, ARY New…
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China: hospitals, funeral homes ‘busy’ as COVID spreads unchecked
Chinese hospitals and funeral homes were under intense pressure on Wednesday as a surging COVID-19 wave drained resources, while the scale of the ou…
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Shortage of Covid testing kits at Karachi airport
KARACHI: A shortage of Covid testing kits at the Karachi airport has increased threat of the spread of the new variant of the virus in Pakistan, ARY…
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Chinese hospitals ‘extremely busy’ as COVID spreads unchecked
CHENGDU: Chinese hospitals were under intense pressure on Wednesday as a surge of COVID-19 infections strained resources in the last major country t…
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China’s COVID cases overwhelm hospitals
In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this. Patients are ar…
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Pakistan fully ready to cope with new wave of Covid variant: NCOC
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is fully ready to cope with the expected new wave of Covid variant, the National Institute of Health Islamabad and the National …
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Beijing, Shanghai residents back to work as China eases into living with COVID
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: Mask-wearing Beijing and Shanghai commuters crowded subway trains on Monday, with China’s two biggest cities moving closer to livi…
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China stops publishing daily COVID figures
China will no longer publish daily figures for Covid-19 cases and deaths, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday, ending a practice tha…
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Chinese city seeing half a million Covid cases a day: official
Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid-19 every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly …
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