China is defending its zero-COVID-19 approach as more countries open borders and loosen restrictions. Zhong Nanshan, China's top epidemiologist, shares more insights with us. He says that the policy is necessary.RELATED STORIES Blinken concerned U.S. policy is isolating America...
1 , 2 The documentation of COVID-19 status in the form of a certificate or 'passport' has been under discussion since travel restrictions were imposed. Early on, the unknown nature of immunity following COVID-19 infection did not support the idea of an 'immunity passport'. 3 Data have ...
As restrictions have eased, most U.S. embassies and consulates have resumed certain immigrant and nonimmigrant visa appointments. Learn the current status of visa services in your country: Important: Starting May 2, 2025: All nonimmigrant visa applicants must submit their DS-160 form at least ...
from a combination of WHO stocks, from Europe, and increasingly from China as governmental restrictions on exportation emerged in countries with surges. To date, 47 laboratories in Lebanon have COVID-19 testing capabilities and 1365 of the country’s 15 195 beds are COVID-19–dedicated and ...
Coronavirus: How many cases of COVID-19 where I live? He earlier told LBC Radio that extending the present level of restrictions for two weeks when the rest of the country would have them lifted "is not justified by any of the figures they have le...
On 8 January 2023, after 3 years of pandemic control, China changed its management of COVID-19, applying measures against class B infectious diseases instead of Class A infectious diseases. This signaled the end of the dynamic zero-COVID policy and the reopening of the country. With a popula...
EDMONTON — Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro, accused of not doing enough to stop a COVID-19 surge swamping hospitals, says the government wants to see the effect of recent health restrictions before adding any new ones. Shandro said he and Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the c...
(namely persons who had spent a prolonged period within 2 m of a confirmed case), travel advisories and then entry restrictions on people traveling from Hubei, and on January 31, entry restrictions on people who had traveled to China in the preceding 14 days. Approximately 700 recent travelers...
The same decision was taken in Washington by its governor, who announced new restrictions on March 19, regarding non-urgent medical and dental procedures in order to reserve critical equipment (involving PPE) for COVID-19 healthcare workers [36]. Many countries have recently restored elective ...
However, less intrusive measures such as border restrictions and risk communication strategies were also effective (Haug et al., 2020). SARS-CoV-2 has spread at a massively higher rate than SARS-CoV-1. Several factors might account for this. Firstly, there was pre-epidemic circulation in the...