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No exit from zero-COVID: China struggles to find policy off-rampChinese medical experts believed last year that higher vaccination rates would eventually allow China to relax tough rules on movement and ...- Two Omicron cases found in India: Here are the symptoms you should be looking forThe WHO has warned of the potential for Covid surges with “severe consequences” fueled by omicron, whose constellation of genetic changes s...
- We have become accustomed to wearing masks, but will the habit stick in post-pandemic world?Evidence shows masks are effective at reducing the spread of Covid.
- Gangrene, hearing loss show delta variant may be more severeHearing impairment, severe gastric upsets and blood clots leading to gangrene, symptoms not typically seen in Covid patients, have been lin...
- Are some Covid vaccines working better than others? The jury is outIf this is true, which vaccines a country can secure could affect everything from policy about mask-wearing and social distancing to liftin...
- How India’s vaccine drive crumbled and left a country in chaosGiven India’s growing strategic importance, its wave of infections risks not only the fledgling recovery in Asia’s third-largest economy, b...
- China doubles down on COVID narrative as WHO investigation loomsChina has dismissed criticism of its early handling of the coronavirus, first identified in the city of Wuhan at the end of 2019, and forei...
- If washed daily at high temperature, cloth masks can protect you from coronavirus: StudyThe WHO recommends machine washing masks with hot water at 60 degrees Celsius.
- Coronavirus found in unoccupied apartment suggests toilets could have a role in spreadTraces of SARS-CoV-2 were detected in February on the sink, faucet and shower handle of a long-vacant apartment, researchers at the Chinese...
- Homemade face masks work best with multiple layers of fabric, study findsWorldwide shortages of protective equipment have led the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health authorities to re...
- Cloth masks may up risk of infections: StudyThe findings come from the first randomised clinical trial to study the efficacy of cloth masks conducted by the University of New South Wa...
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