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Paxlovid reduces risk of long Covid, Veterans Affairs study finds
Paxlovid, the antiviral pill that reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from Covid-19, also reduces the risk…
Apple: Chinese workers flee Covid lockdown at iPhone factory
Workers have broken out of Apple’s largest iPhone assembly factory in China after a Covid outbreak forced staff…
China Covid: Videos emerge of rare protests in Tibet
Footage has emerged showing what appear to be rare large-scale protests against strict Covid-19 measures in the Tibetan…
CDC director tests positive for Covid-19
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tested positive for Covid-19…
China anger over death of girl, 14, sent to Covid quarantine
The family of a 14-year-old girl in China who died after she was put in a Covid quarantine…
China’s Xi opens Party Congress with speech tackling Taiwan, Hong Kong and zero-Covid
Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sunday vowed to steer China through grave challenges toward national rejuvenation, advancing a…
Covid: Reserve Bank of Australia takes $30bn hit on bond purchases
Australia’s central bank has revealed that it has lost A$44.9bn ($30bn; £26.3bn) on the bonds it bought as…
China Covid: Quarantine bus crash kills 27 and injures 20
A bus carrying people to a Covid-19 quarantine facility in China has crashed, killing 27 of those on…
Biden signs bills tackling Covid relief fraud into law
(CNN)President Joe Biden signed into law two bipartisan bills on Friday aimed at holding accountable individuals who commit…
Covid in China: Xi Jinping and other leaders given domestic vaccine
President Xi Jinping and other top politicians have been given domestically produced Covid vaccines, China has said. The…