COVID-19

https://youtu.be/nHh-Iup6dt0 First Cases of New Omicron Sub-variant Reported in Xi'an China 1. First Cases of New Omicron Sub-variant Reported in Xi'an, China China's northwestern city of Xi'an, home to 13 million people, was partially shut down on Wednesday after it reported the country's first outbreak of a highly transmissible new Omicron subvariant that is fast dominating the United States and Europe. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/tZOBOdx8JxZPfHlcuVyrSg 2. Vaccination to be required for public venues Starting on Monday, those who haven't received a COVID-19 vaccine will be restricted from entering some public venues in Beijing, city officials said on Wednesday. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202207/07/WS62c63546a310fd2b29e6ae17.html 3. 'A Date with China' explores magnificent and changing China "A Date with China" international media tour wrapped up the first leg of 2022 on Saturday. During the eight-day tour, the team visited Ningxia Hui autonomous region and Anhui province. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202207/06/WS62c54c8aa310fd2b29e6ac5e.html 4. Shenzhou-14 taikonauts conduct in-orbit science experiments, prepare for space walks Scientific endeavors aboard China's space station are expected to bear fruits, as the Shenzhou-14 taikonauts have devoted more time to microgravity experiments on the orbiting core module Tianhe since entering it a month ago. https://english.news.cn/20220706/d127a3b0c15642ad8d9d89ebc5d79f11/c.html 5. Kenya's SGR train ferries 7.8 mln passengers since inception The standard gauge railway (SGR) passenger train…

Foreign volunteers help fight epidemic. As China strengthens its epidemic prevention and control measures in the face of a COVID-19 resurgence, many volunteers including foreigners have joined the anti-epidemic fight. Foreign volunteers help fight epidemic In Haikou, Hainan Province, volunteers from different countries, including the United States, New Zealand and Ghana, assisted with anti-epidemic services and made their own contributions to helping the city. At a nucleic acid testing site in Haikou on Sunday, Tommy from America checked people's temperatures and made sure that they maintained the proper distance.  Having lived in Hainan for 12 years, Tommy speaks fluent Chinese, and even some Hainan dialect, and he now calls himself "new Hainanese." "Hainan is my second home," he said. "If I can go out and help out, if I have this opportunity to help out, I should take advantage of that and help out my Hainanese friends." At the testing site, he greeted local residents in Hainan dialect from time to time. Every time he saw kids coming, he would put on his cartoon mask and interact with them. Farr from New Zealand is 69 year old, but says that one is "never too old to be a volunteer."   "It's…

Dose International Students Insurance cover COVID-19? Insurance Dose International Students Insurance cover COVID-19? Insurance can cover that the insured is diagnosed as COVID-19 and payment is reasonable and necessary in China mainland’s public hospital.  Q：What should I do when go to hospital? A： ①Seeing doctors in China mainland’s public hospital and normal department. ②Using passport name to register. ③Having medical records from doctors. ④Changing original invoices from charging if you spend money on charging machine. Q： How could I supplement the case record for outpatient service or emergency treatment if I forget to have a doctor to do so?  A：Please bring your passport as well as the original invoice and other related medical documents issued to you by the hospital you go to for that time to the department for the outpatient service or emergency treatment we received in that hospital and find the doctor to write up the records for you. Please be noted that the date for receiving medical service recorded in this case history for outpatient service or emergency treatment must be identical to the one on the corresponding invoice; and you could also go to the Guiding Desk to ask for help whenever you have difficulties after having…

Unclear origins add to difficulties; dynamic 'zero strategy' still key By Chen Qingqing, Yu Xi and Wan Hengyi, Published: Mar 11, 2022 12:36 AM Residents in North China’s Tianjin Municipality undergo nucleic acid testing in an orderly manner. Tianjin reported 12 confirmed cases on March 9, 2022. Photo: VCG China has seen spikes in domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections in recent days, of which about 50 percent are asymptomatic cases, affecting at least 16 provincial-level regions, the latest daily report showed on Thursday.  Some Chinese public health experts called the latest rebound  "the most severe onslaught" since the early epidemic in Wuhan, and after two years of fighting the epidemic with rigorous measures, different sectors have shown a certain level of fatigue toward the dynamic zero COVID strategy, which could affect the outcome of the implementation of the current policy.  But experts warned that it's still crucial for China to stick to the zero tolerance policy, which has proved to be effective in preventing severe cases and deaths, helping maintain the normal livelihoods and economic development at a low cost. While more countries discuss changing strategies for either living with the virus or abandoning strict lockdown measures, as the world has been…

Content: 1. The current situation of COVID-19 in Hong Kong 2. At this stage, the main task of COVID-19 prevention in Hong Kong is to shift from prevention to response 3. Favorable conditions for Hong Kong to deal with the 5th wave of COVID-19 4. However, Hong Kong also had unfavorable conditions compared to Wuhan/Hubei at that time. For example, 5. Possible development of the epidemic in Hong Kong 6. Short-, medium- and long-term goals of COVID-19 prevention in Hong Kong should be defined 7. The short-term goal of COVID-19 prevention in Hong Kong – fighting the 5th wave of COVID-19 rebound 8. How on earth to maintain a sustainable “dynamic zero-case”? Lessons from the Chinese pandemic prevention system and institutions 9. The mid-term goal of COVID-19 prevention in Hong Kong: the decision tree of COVID-19 prevention 10. Back to ★Approach 1: can Hong Kong copy the mainland prevention system? 11. If co-existence is costly, will pan-democrats be grateful for the help from the mainland and agree with the mainland COVID-19 prevention system? 12. The long-term goal of COVID-19 prevention in Hong Kong: whether it can be reconciled with the mainland system? Decision tree of COVID-19 prevention in Hong Kong (To be discussed later) 1.The current situation of COVID-19 in Hong Kong Yesterday (February 12, 2022), 1,510…

Chinese top respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan has responded to the question on when China can return to normalcy, proposing two prerequisites - if fatality rate of COVID-19 drops to around 0.1 percent, and when R0 (R naught), which is the basic reproduction number also known as basic reproduction ratio, is between 1 and 1.5.To this end, the whole population in China must take vaccination and establish herd immunity, the normalized community mass prevention and control must be carried out, and an effective treatment should be developed, Zhong said at the 2nd Greater Bay Area (Shenzhen) Vaccine Summit on Saturday.Zhong revealed that he had attended a meeting of the WHO where a document said that each country and region roughly adopted four measures to deal with the coronavirus: one was strong control, the second was suppression, the third was containment, and the fourth was that individual countries did not take any measures, the People's Daily reported on Saturday.Since March last year, China has been able to control the coronavirus as it adopted the strong control, and the zero-case policy, said Zhong. In the past 20 months, "We have been the best in all aspects including economic recovery and resumption of work and school", he said, noting…