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Beijing said on Wednesday that the FBI was undermining its credibility after comments by its director saying that a laboratory accident in the Chinese city of Wuhan is “very likely” at the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. FBI boss Christopher Wray’s statements to Fox News on Tuesday came two days …

French authorities have decided to no longer require a negative PCR test less than 48 hours old for travelers coming from China, a measure that was taken in early January in the face of the outbreak of cases in the Asian country. “As of February 16, travelers from China to …

US President Joe Biden announced to Congress on Monday that he would end the state of health emergency linked to Covid-19 in the United States, the Associated Press reported The virus, which has killed more than a million people in America, will therefore settle into normality from May 11. Read …

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Monday that the Covid-19 pandemic remains a public health emergency of international concern as it first did on January 30, 2020. The world then had fewer than 100 cases and no deaths outside of China. The WHO on Friday identified more than 752 …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to hold a meeting with the National Coronavirus Command Council on Tuesday to discuss the new variant detected in the country this week, local media reported. The new Covid subvariant, known as XBB.1.5, is an offshoot of the globally dominant Omicron Covid variant …

Nearly 90 percent of residents in Henan, one of China’s most populous provinces, have been infected with Covid-19, a regional health authority official said Monday. China is facing an unprecedented rebound in the number of positive cases. After three years of some of the most draconian restrictions in the world, …

Nigerian authorities announced that all passengers will no longer be required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test on arrival or departure, regardless of their vaccination status. A memo addressed to all airline operators, among other stakeholders in the aviation industry by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) confirmed …

China announced on Wednesday a general relaxation of health rules against Covid, authorizing certain positive cases to quarantine at home and reducing its use of generalized PCR tests. The change comes days after historic angry protests across the country. According to the new instructions unveiled by the National Health Commission …

Chinese authorities on Thursday apologized after the death of a 3-year-old child deprived of care due to draconian health measures against Covid-19. In a message, the victim’s father had complained about the slowness of the relief and not having been able to leave his residence because of the confinement of …

Indonesia is in talks with several African countries, including Nigeria, to export and donate its homemade COVID-19 vaccine, its developer said on Friday. Indonesia is becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to approve a domestically developed COVID shot. Its approval for the shot, the detailed trial data of which …