"COVID-19 has changed our world and it has changed us," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as he declared an end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency. Produced by Xinhua Global Service You may like Enterprising, confident, down-to-earth -- Meet China's rising ge...
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The U.S. government on Thursday will lift the COVID-19 public health emergency that has been in effect for more than three years. By ending the emergency phase of the publichealthresponse, "That kind of puts a period at the end of the pandemic sentence," Vanderbilt University's Dr. Will...
However, the Health Ministry emphasized the importance of the vaccination campaign, even after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. It added that immunization against COVID-19 is essential to maintain transmission control and that Brazilians must complete the vaccination schedule with both...
“Just because the government announced the end of COVID, it doesn’t really mean it’s the end of COVID,” Hoopingarner said. “Things might change at the hospital, depending on the situation.” What will be sticking around? The federal...
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It would be the first time since April 4 that none of Japan’s 47 prefectures is under either a state of emergency or a quasi-state of emergency. “The number of new COVID-19 cases and patients with severe symptoms have dramatically declined,” Suga said at a committee meeting at the ...
By way of background, in connection with the COVID emergency, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced some welcomed relief in the form of a general extension of time for meeting many of the deadlines pertaining to health and welfare plans. Notably, after more than t...
Thefederal governmentpreviously suspended the free rapid test program last May after the public health emergency of the pandemic was officially ended. Residents who haven't placed an order since then can now place two, which will provide eight tests in total, according to COVID.gov. ...