Hong Kong further eases COVID-19 protocols
Hong Kong on Tuesday announced that it would no longer require residents to use a scanning app to enter venues and that overseas arrivals could […]
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FG relaxes COVID-19 travel protocols
Lara Adejoro The Federal Government has relaxed COVID-19 safety measures and travel advisory following the sustained reduction in COVID-19 infection and transmission across the country. […]
Travellers no longer require COVID-19 test- FG
The Federal Government through the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority on Monday said pre-arrival or post-arrival testing for COVID-19 was no longer a prerequisite for travellers, […]
China retires major COVID-19 tracking app as virus rules ease
Beijing has effectively thrown in the towel on zero-Covid, last week announcing an end to large-scale lockdowns, mandatory quarantine in central facilities, and a broad […]
GAVI to integrate COVID-19 jabs into vaccine programmes for poor nations
Covax, the global programme for distributing Covid jabs to poorer countries, will soon be integrated into more routine vaccination programmes, Gavi said Thursday. Gavi said […]
China’s capital adjusts to life with COVID-19 after policy reversal
The Chinese capital showed tentative signs of a return to normal Thursday after a sudden reversal of a hardline pandemic policy that hammered the world’s […]
China announces nationwide loosening of COVID-19 restrictions
China announced on Wednesday a nationwide loosening of its hardline COVID-19 restrictions that had hammered the world’s second-biggest economy and ignited rare protests against the […]
After doom and gloom, China’s propaganda shifts gears on COVID-19
Once dominated by doom and gloom coverage of the dangers of the virus and scenes of pandemic chaos abroad, China’s tightly controlled media has dramatically […]
Shanghai stops some COVID-19 testing requirements
Authorities in China’s financial hub of Shanghai will from Monday scrap some testing requirements in the country’s latest relaxing of its strict zero-Covid policy following […]
90% world population has immunity to COVID-19, WHO says
The World Health Organisation estimated that 90 per cent of the world population now had some resistance to COVID-19, but warned that a troubling new […]