Health

A hospital in Shanghai has informed its employees to prepare for a “tragic struggle” with COVID-19, as it anticipates that half of the city’s 25 million residents would be infected by the end of the year as the virus sweeps through China mostly uncontrolled. China has begun dismantling its “zero-COVID” policy, which has taken a significant financial and psychological toll …

Saturday, December 17, funeral facilities in China’s capital Beijing, a population of 22 million, rushed to meet up with burial and cremation requests as personnel and drivers testing positive for the new coronavirus phoned in sick. China quickly modified its COVID-19 management rules more than a week ago, following an announcement that the Omicron strain had diminished and huge public …

The flu season has returned to Singapore, and physicians are reporting a 20 percent increase in instances of respiratory illness. During the winter season, health officials overseas have warned of a “tripledemic” including concurrent epidemics of COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus. Clinics have been scrambling to guarantee sufficient drug availability during this period, as a COVID-19 outbreak looms and …

Since 2020, Chinese hackers have stolen tens of millions of dollars in US COVID relief funds, the Secret Service reported on Monday, December 5. The Secret Service declined to disclose any information, but confirmed an NBC News story that the Chinese hacker group believed to be involved is known as APT41 or Winnti in the security research field. According to …

Recently, model Hailey Bieber confessed that she had been suffering with an apple-sized ovarian cyst. Although we do not know the precise number of women who suffer from ovarian cysts, they are believed to be very frequent, with estimates indicating that approximately 7% of women will suffer from one at some point in their lives. However, these figures may be …

Beijing people applauded the removal of COVID-19 testing booths, while Shenzhen followed the lead of other cities by declaring that commuters will no longer be required to produce their test results in order to travel, as a loosening of China’s virus restrictions gathered momentum. Although daily instances are hovering at all-time highs, several localities are easing COVID-19 testing criteria and …

A lawsuit claims that 12 Indonesian families have filed claims against the government and the companies allegedly responsible for supplying the tainted cough syrups after relatives therein passed away or suffered injuries. Since August, there has been an increase in acute kidney injury cases in the Southeast Asian nation, and the deaths of at least 199 people—mostly children—have prompted an …

In a show of sympathy with rare demonstrations of disobedience in China over the weekend, protests against China’s stringent zero-COVID policy and limits on liberties have spread to at least a dozen locations worldwide. Students and expatriate dissidents have organized small-scale vigils and rallies in cities in Europe, Asia, and North America, including London, Paris, Tokyo, and Sydney, according to …

On Friday, November 25, China recorded 35,183 new COVID-19 infections, of which 3,474 were symptomatic and 31,709 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission announced on Saturday, November 26, establishing a new daily record for the third consecutive day. This compares to 32,943 new cases a day earlier, of which 3,103 symptomatic and 29,840 asymptomatic illnesses are separately counted in China. …

The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) announced on November 25 that the country’s first instances of the highly contagious COVID-19 Omicron subvariant BQ.1 had been identified. The Department of Health noted that subvariant instances were discovered in the Cordillera, Ilocos, Calabarzon, Central Visayas, and Metro Manila areas. The location of one instance was uncertain. Between October 28 and November 18, …