CANBERRA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) — Australia reported more than 15,000 new COVID-19 cases and 33 deaths on Sunday, one day before the country’s borders open to fully vaccinated tourists. From Monday Australia’s strict border restrictions will ease, allowing international tourists to enter the country for the first time since March 2020. Prior to the coronavirus … Read more
HONG KONG, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) — Hong Kong’s Center for Health Protection (CHP) confirmed one additional case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Wednesday. In an update on the latest investigations on an imported case announced on Tuesday, the CHP said the Omicron case involved a 21-year-old female patient who arrived in Hong Kong … Read more
BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) — The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. – – – – CANBERRA — South Australian authorities have warned the state’s border could still be slammed shut to interstate travelers in response to the Omicron variant. South Australia (SA) Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said on … Read more
MADRID: The coronavirus pandemic will cost the global tourism sector $2 trillion in lost revenues in 2021, the UN’s tourism body said on Monday, calling the sector’s recovery ‘fragile’ and ‘slow’. The forecast from the Madrid-based World Tourism Organization comes as Europe is grappling with a surge in infections and as a new heavily mutated … Read more
NSW Health can confirm urgent genomic testing is underway after travelers arriving in Sydney from southern Africa tonight tested positive for COVID-19 There were fourteen passengers who arrived in Sydney are from one of the nine southern African countries of South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini, Malawi, and Seychelles. Two of these travelers … Read more
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) confirmed on Monday that two cases of the highly contagious coronavirus variant that first emerged in the UK have been detected in Pakistan. According to the details, NCOC said that the National Institute of Health (NIH) examined a number of samples taken from UK return travelers suspected to … Read more
