Few tourists, deserted streets in casino hub Macau after reopening

Three years on, COVID-19 almost forced Becky Zhang’s specialty food business in Macau to collapse. Established by his grandmother fifty years ago, his shop selling pastries and dried beef survives only thanks to residents who bought small quantities to help keep him afloat. Now, even after the recent reopening of the world’s biggest gambling hub, […]

US considering COVID entry restrictions for travelers from China

“There are growing concerns in the international community over the ongoing COVID-19 surge in China and the lack of transparent data, including viral genomic sequence data,” US officials said, referring to the People’s Republic of China. , Beijing officials have acknowledged that it is “impossible” to track the outbreak and have removed the much-maligned number […]

Bangladesh to strengthen Covid screening at ports as cases rise in parts of world

Health officials have issued an alert to land, sea and airports, ordering them to strengthen screening of arriving passengers for COVID-19 with a new omicron sub-variant found in China and India Is. The sub-variant, BF.7, is causing a surge in infections, the Directorate General of Health Services said on Sunday, raising fears of a surge […]

Chinese officials take over production of medical supplies as Covid escalates

‘sudden jump’ Given the outbreak on the mainland, worried shoppers in Hong Kong have been buying over-the-counter flu medicine for nearly two weeks, clearing pharmacy shelves. “Last week, there were people who bought a dozen, two dozen boxes of Panadol to send to mainland China,” a pharmacy worker told AFP. The semi-autonomous city’s biggest pharmacy […]