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Economic Times | 07 Jan, 2023 | 11:42AM IST
Covid News LIVE Updates: China suspends social media accounts of Covid policy critics
Covid News LIVE Updates: China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, as the country moves to further open up. The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said it had addressed 12,854 violations including attacks on experts, scholars, and medical workers, and issued temporary or permanent bans on 1,120 accounts.
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214 fresh Covid-19 cases in India; daily positivity rate at 0.11%
India on Saturday recorded 214 fresh coronavirus infections, while the number of active cases increased marginally to 2,509, according to Union health ministry data. With this, the total number of COVID-19 cases has climbed to 4.46 crore (4,46,79,761). The death toll increased to 5,30,718 with four deaths -- two reconciled by Kerala, and one each reported from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh -- in the last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.11 per cent. The weekly positivity rate stood at 0.12 per cent, according to the health ministry website.
China suspends social media accounts of Covid policy critics
China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s policies on the Covid-19 outbreak, as the country moves to further open up. The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said it had addressed 12,854 violations including attacks on experts, scholars and medical workers and issued temporary or permanent bans on 1,120 accounts as per some news reports.
China reports 854 new Covid cases in last 24 hrs
China had 5,870 severe Covid-19 infections as of Friday, up 854 from a day earlier, according to data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
China reports three COVID deaths for January 6
China reported three new COVID-19 deaths in the mainland for Jan. 6, compared with five deaths a day earlier, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said. The official death toll now stands at 5,267.
Chinese-made mRNA vaccine starts trial production
China's CanSino Biologics Inc has entered test production phase for its COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccine, the company said. The vaccine, known as CS-2034, targets new Omicron variants of the virus, which are responsible for the vast majority of infections that have swept across China since the country began dismantling strict COVID curbs last month.
Covid positivity at 0.1% in last 24 hours: Govt
The health ministry said 1. 9 lakh tests were conducted in last 24 hours of which 228 (0. 1%) came positive. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 173, 134, 175, and 188 cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the country in 24 hours.At the Delhi airport, where arandom screening of 2% of people arriving from other countries has been conducted since December 24, sources said, 46 out of 5,100 passengers have tested positive.
Netherlands to require Covid tests from China arrivals
Air passengers arriving from China will need to show a negative Covid-19 test to enter the Netherlands from next week, the Dutch health ministry said. More than a dozen countries have slapped fresh travel regulations on travellers from the world's most populous nation, which is facing a surge in Covid cases following its decision to relax strict virus restrictions.
US FDA does not expect Evusheld to work against Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5
The US Food and Drug Administration said it does not expect Astrazeneca's's COVID-19 antibody cocktail Evusheld to neutralize the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5.
Xi calls China's COVID-19 policy 'rational and well-thought-out'
- Chinese President Xi Jinping defended his COVID-19 policy in his public address on the occasion of the new year, calling it 'rational and well-thought-out.'
- In his first public address on new year, Xi Jinping did not speak about the government's unpreparedness and the sudden cancellation of the zero-COVID policy that led to a surge in COVID-19 cases in China, Geo-Politik reported.
- He said that they have adopted the COVID response following a 'science-based and targeted approach.'
US keeps offering China its Covid vaccines. China keeps saying no
China has rebuffed repeated US offers to share advanced vaccines as Beijing battles a fast-spreading wave of Covid-19, a rejection that’s led to growing frustration among American officials concerned about a resurgence of the pandemic.
China in talks with Pfizer for generic COVID drug
China is in talks with Pfizer Inc to secure a licence that will allow domestic drugmakers to manufacture and distribute a generic version of the US firm's COVID-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid in China.
Portugal to require negative COVID test from China air travellers
Portugal will require air travellers from China to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test done no more than two days before departure, the health ministry said on Friday, following other nations that have implemented such restrictions.The requirements take effect at 12 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Sunday and airlines are responsible for complying with the measure on boarding.
