• China reports covid-19 deaths

    BEIJING -- China reported Saturday nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had covid-19 since early December following complaints it was failing to release data, an…

    by JOE McDONALD The Associated Press January 15, 2023

  • 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.

    by MIKE STOBBE The Associated Press January 14, 2023

  • 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 …

    by LAURIE MCGINLEY and LENA H. SUN The Washington Post January 14, 2023

  • 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…

    by JOSH WINGROVE and JEANNIE BAUMANN Bloomberg News (TNS) January 14, 2023

  • 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…

    by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports January 9, 2023

  • 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…

    by RAF CASERT The Associated Press January 5, 2023

  • 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…

    by KEN MORITSUGU The Associated Press January 4, 2023

  • 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 …

    by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports December 31, 2022

  • 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…

    by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports December 30, 2022

  • 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…

    by Bloomberg News December 30, 2022

  • 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…

    by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports December 29, 2022

  • 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…

    by KELSEY ABLES The Washington Post December 25, 2022

  • 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.

    by DAKE KANG The Associated Press December 25, 2022

  • 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…

    by Bloomberg News (WPNS) December 24, 2022

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