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May 17, 2022 06:35 AM ISTShanghai reports 77 symptomatic, 746 asymptomatic COVID cases for May 16
There were zero cases found outside quarantined areas, same as reported a day earlier. The city reported one new COVID-19 related death, compared with four a day earlier.
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May 17, 2022 06:34 AM IST Beijing reports 43 new symptomatic COVID cases, 9 asymptomatic cases
The city also reported nine asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 for May 16, down from 15 a day earlier.
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May 17, 2022 06:32 AM IST North Korea mobilises army, steps up tracing amid COVID wave
The isolated country is grappling with its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak, which it confirmed last week, fuelling concerns over a major crisis due to a lack of vaccines and adequate medical infrastructure.
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May 16, 2022 08:11 AM IST China's retail sales lowest in two years from Covid damage
The world's second-largest economy has persisted with strict virus measures, choking up supply chains as dozens of Chinese cities -- including key business hub Shanghai -- grapple with restrictions.
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May 16, 2022 08:07 AM IST South Korea says it will spare no effort to help North Korea amid COVID outbreak
"If North Korea responds (to our support), we will spare no medicines including COVID-19 vaccines, medical equipment and health personnel," said Yoon in a speech at the plenary session of the National Assembly.
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May 15, 2022 10:35 AM IST Four strange COVID symptoms you might not have heard about
From skin lesions to hearing loss, emerging data is increasingly showing us that COVID symptoms can go beyond what you might expect from a regular cold or a flu.
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May 15, 2022 07:20 AM IST Moneycontrol Daily: Your Essential 7
A daily round-up of the most interesting articles to help jump-start the day.
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May 14, 2022 07:18 AM IST Moneycontrol Daily: Your Essential 7
A daily round-up of the most interesting articles to help jump-start the day.
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May 13, 2022 05:39 PM IST EXPLAINED: What's behind North Korea's COVID-19 admission?
Since Thursday, North Korea has imposed a nationwide lockdown, isolating all work and residential units from one another. But there are signs that the country might try to live with the virus, to some extent.
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May 13, 2022 04:05 PM IST In Pics | A look at some odd pictures from around the world
From blistering heat in Delhi, Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, horse carriages in central London to a locked-down Shanghai, it was a busy week, see for yourself
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May 13, 2022 02:04 PM IST In Pics | There is scope for another 10% correction in the market, says Samir Arora
Samir Arora, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Helios Capital, sees scope for a further 10 percent correction in the market and expects the domestic market to bottom out when the US markets do the same. The veteran asset manager dismissed concerns that the current drawdown in the equity market is similar to the 2008 global financial crisis. Here’s what he said during a chat with Moneycontrol.
- May 13, 2022 12:51 PM IST
Covid-19 | A look at rising number of cases and virus sub-variants in select countries
A look at infection trends in some countries battling the covid, and the sub-variant responsible it...
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May 13, 2022 11:02 AM IST South Korea plans to provide COVID vaccine to North Korea
"We will discuss detailed plans for assistance with North Korea," Yoon's spokesperson said in a statement.
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May 13, 2022 09:58 AM IST Beijing works from home, Shanghai says victory against COVID getting closer
Beijing officials late on Thursday denied rumours of sweeping, Shanghai-style lockdown measures, urging people not to panic-buy but to stay at home. They also announced a new round of mass testing across most of the city.
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May 13, 2022 06:21 AM IST North Korea reports first COVID-19 death after 350,000 sickened with fever
Some 187,800 people are currently being treated in isolation after a fever of unidentified origin has "explosively spread nationwide" since late April, the official KCNA news agency reported.
- May 13, 2022 06:19 AM IST
COVID crisis could deepen North Korea food shortages amid drought warnings
The isolated North confirmed on Thursday its first COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic emerged more than two years ago, declaring the "gravest national emergency" and imposing a national lockdown.
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May 12, 2022 05:19 PM IST COVID deaths in Europe pass 2 million mark: WHO
"A devastating milestone has passed as reported confirmed COVID-19 deaths from countries in the WHO European Region have exceeded more than 2 million people," the UN health agency said in a statement.
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May 12, 2022 03:57 PM IST COVID-19 claims 1 million lives in the United States
By June 2020, the U.S. death toll had surpassed the total of the country’s military deaths in World War One and it would exceed the American military losses of War World Two by January 2021 when more than 405,000 deaths were recorded.
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May 12, 2022 11:54 AM IST Half of COVID survivors show one symptom even two years after infection: Lancet study
The research followed 1,192 participants in China infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first phase of the pandemic in 2020.
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May 12, 2022 07:22 AM IST North Korea reports first COVID-19 outbreak with Omicron case, orders lockdown
"There has been the biggest emergency incident in the country, with a hole in our emergency quarantine front, that has been kept safely over the past two years and three months since February 2020," official KCNA news agency said.
- May 12, 2022 06:19 AM IST
North Korea declares Covid-19 'severe emergency'
The official KCNA news agency said samples taken from patients sick with fever in Pyongyang on Sunday were "consistent with" the virus' highly transmissible Omicron variant.
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May 11, 2022 08:44 PM IST EU lifts mask requirement for air travel as pandemic ebbs
Passengers should however behave responsibly and respect the choices of others around them, EASA Executive Director Patrick Ky said.
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May 11, 2022 03:25 PM IST Fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose provides strong immunity boost: UK study
The findings, published in The Lancet Infectious Disease journal, show that fourth dose mRNA booster vaccines for COVID-19 are well-tolerated in people who received Pfizer as a third dose.
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May 11, 2022 01:46 PM IST Zero COVID policy not sustainable; shift strategy: WHO tells China
As we all know the virus is evolving, changing its behaviour and becoming more transmissible. With that changing behaviour, changing your measures will be very important, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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May 11, 2022 11:51 AM IST China's COVID crisis and the dilemma facing its leaders, by experts who have monitored it since the Wuhan outbreak
The extraordinary story of China’s ongoing, and increasingly desperate, struggle against COVID-19 combines hubris at its own early public health successes with a failure to sufficiently vaccinate its elderly people, and is fuelled by rising anti-Western sentiment over the last five years.
