Sanders’ 9th executive order repeals 5 covid-19 pandemic groups, committees
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday she has disbanded five government covid-19 pandemic groups and committees that were established under the previous…
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U.S. kids’ shots rate declines again
Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergartners dropped again last year and federal officials are starting a new campaign to try to bring them up.
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Booster probe finds no stroke link
A vaccine safety monitoring system in late November picked up a signal that the updated Pfizer coronavirus vaccine booster was possibly linked to an increased …
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Biden covid-19 adviser leaving administration
WASHINGTON -- David Kessler, who helped steer President Joe Biden's covid-19 policy, will leave the administration -- as the government's response continues to…
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Sanders disbands 5 Arkansas covid response groups established by executive orders
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday she has disbanded five covid-19 pandemic groups and committees that were established under the previous administra…
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Japan, S. Korea protest China visa stoppage amid covid spat
Japan and South Korea defended public health restrictions on travelers from China on Wednesday, a day after China stopped issuing new visas in both countries i…
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China loosens travel rules, reopens borders
After years of separation from his wife in mainland China, Hong Kong resident Cheung Seng-bun made sure to be among the first in line after the reopening Sunda…
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EU encourages covid-travel measures
The European Union on Wednesday "strongly encouraged" its member states to impose pre-departure covid-19 testing of passengers from China, in a move that is li…
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China denounces covid-19 travel rules
BEIJING -- The Chinese government sharply criticized covid-19 testing requirements imposed on passengers from China and threatened countermeasures against coun…
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No new covid variants noted in China
No novel covid-19 variants have emerged in China, according to a global consortium that's tracking coronavirus mutations, potentially easing concerns that the …
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Italy tests Chinese arrivals for covid
After two recent flights from China brought almost 100 coronavirus-infected passengers to Milan, Italy on Wednesday announced that all arrivals from China woul…
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China to report updated covid mortality data
China is planning to calculate, then release, excess mortality data as a record wave of infections engulfs the country and doubts grow about the accuracy of it…
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China arrivals must get covid test, U.S. says
As China resumes issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years -- setting up a po…
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Long covid loss of smell studied
Persistent loss of smell, or anosmia, as experts call it, is one of long covid's strangest symptoms -- and researchers may be one step closer to figuring it ou…
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China hospitals overwhelmed
As China grapples with its first-ever national covid-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed.
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Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: Covid roils Chinese towns
Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China's industrial Hebei province, 43 miles southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-la…
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China outbreak looks to be worlds biggest
Nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with covid-19 on a single day this week, according to estimates from the government's top health autho…
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New law ends covid vaccine mandate for U.S. troops
U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the covid-19 vaccine after the mandate was lifted under an $858 billion defense spendin…
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The world in brief: India tests airport arrivals for covid-19
India tests airport arrivals for covid-19
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U.N. agency alarmed by covid in China
The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is "very concerned" about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country…
