As of June 30, more than 560 million Chinese citizens had received both doses of a two-shot COVID-19 vaccine, meaning 40 percent of China's population had been fully vaccinated against the disease, Gao Fu, director-general of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on ...
The World Health Organization says global COVID-19 infections have nearly doubled over the past four weeks. The WHO blamed the Delta variant for the sharp rise, and said the situation highlighted the need to act before other variants emerged. It also called on countries to...
More than half of all Americans and about 75 percent of kids had been infected by COVID-19 by the end of February this year, according to a new study on antibodies by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC examined blood samples nationwide...
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, China has weathered waves of mass infections and managed to hold its own when the novel coronavirus was most rampant. Confronted by epidemic uncertainties, China has always been putting people’s lives and health first, adapting its COVID response in light of t...
Millions of people are still missing out on vital healthcare, the WHO data shows. Nearly half of countries reported that the most affected area was the provision of day-to-day primary care to prevent and manage some of the most common heal...
The impact that the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak could have on the economy depends on how the outbreak plays out. In a scenario that results in a global pandemic, it is predicted that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States will decline by 2.4 percent, and the Russian ...
TCM treatment has been given to 99 percent of patients in makeshift hospitals in the province, and 94 percent of people in the quarantine venues for prevention, said Tu Yuanchao, deputy head of the provincial health commission. The makeshift hospitals were converted from public venues such as exh...
BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 3.44 million over-60s in Beijing, or 80 percent of the city's elderly population, have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, local authorities said. Over 2.46 million elderly have received booster shots, said the Beijing Center for...
Despite widespread agreement among experts that having a prophylactic COVID-19 vaccine will be critical to the nation's ability to safely return to some form of normalcy, only 57% of Americans say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if it were available to
The researchers identified 126,137 unique patients with an index COVID-19 admission during March to July 2020. During the index hospitalization, 15 percent of patients died. Of the remaining patients, 9 percent were readmitted to the same hospital within two months of discharge. Among 1.6 percent...