Bus leaves Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, for a quarantine hotel in a different part of the province. Accident draws outrage from a public growing weary with the country’s strict “zero-Covid” policies. China continues to take some of the strictest Covid-19 measures in the world. Local authorities said at least 27 people were killed when … Read more
Social media videos show people fleeing an Ikea store in Shanghai as authorities quarantine them. Close contact of a COVID-19 case was connected to the business. Those at the store and surrounding regions must quarantine for two days and be monitored for five days. Social media videos show people fleeing an Ikea store in Shanghai … Read more
Residents of Pasco County, north of Tampa, ordered to quarantine giant African land snails. Florida’s agriculture department calls the invasive species “one of the most damaging” mollusc subtypes. The snails carry a parasite that can cause meningitis in humans. State officials had to issue a quarantine order for inhabitants of Florida’s Pasco County; which is … Read more
A Beijing man put thousands of his neighbors in quarantine after ignoring a stay-at-home order and testing positive for COVID-19, triggering a police probe. Over the last five weeks, the Chinese capital has ordered hundreds of thousands of citizens to stay at home in order to contain the city’s greatest coronavirus epidemic since the pandemic … Read more
Thousands of Covid-negative individuals Due to a handful of infections, Beijing citizens were forcibly transported to quarantine hotels for the night, as the capital begins to impose increasingly stringent control measures akin to virus-hit Shanghai. Beijing has been fighting the pandemic’s worst outbreak since it began. Since late April, the Omicron type has infected over … Read more
Authorities combating the latest COVID epidemic in Shanghai have erected gates to limit the mobility of the populace. Outside buildings where occupants are prohibited from exiting, green barricades have risen unexpectedly. According to one tenant, a green fence emerged without reason within his locked-up enclosure three days ago. Shanghai’s 25 million residents have been confined … Read more
SHANGHAI: A top Shanghai official conceded Thursday the Chinese financial hub had been “insufficiently prepared” for its latest Covid outbreak, as criticism mounts over lockdowns that have caught residents off guard. The eastern megacity of 25 million has been split in two as part of a rolling lockdown plan to battle China’s worst outbreak in … Read more
ULAN BATOR – Mongolia registered 95 new COVID-19 local cases over the past 24 hours, raising the national tally to 468,418, the country’s health ministry said Thursday. Meanwhile, the country’s COVID-19 death toll stands at 2,105, with no new deaths reported by Thursday for the seventh consecutive day. Currently, Mongolia has a total of 3,154 … Read more
SUVA – Samoa reported on Monday eight new positive COVID-19 cases. According to the newspaper Samoa Observer, chief of Samoa’s National Emergency Operation Center Agafili Shem Leo has confirmed the eight new cases, saying that they are passengers on board a repatriation flight from New Zealand on Sunday. Currently, the eight cases are in quarantine. … Read more
HONG KONG: Overflowing hospitals, empty supermarket shelves and grim quarantine camps — Hong Kong is in chaos battling a ballooning Covid outbreak in a business hub once renowned for its efficiency. Many locals are fuming at the government’s failure to prepare after winning rare breathing room with two years of an economically painful but largely … Read more
HONG KONG : Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday said she would not impose a mainland China-style hard lockdown as the city faces its worst coronavirus wave to date, even as she vowed no switch to living with Covid-19. For more than two years, Hong Kong has followed China’s zero-Covid strategy, but a wave of the … Read more
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s health facilities have been overloaded by an “onslaught” of Covid-19 infections, its leader said, as a rise in Omicron cases threatens to bring down the city’s “zero-Covid” policy. Authorities have adhered to mainland China’s policy of stamping out the smallest outbreak with mass quarantine, widespread tracking, and prolonged social distancing measures since the … Read more
Pakistan national Test squad will begin their training sessions at the National Stadium, Karachi from February 16. The cricketers will carry out their sessions under the supervision of the head coach Saqlain Mushtaq. The remaining players, who are currently busy in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), will join the squad in Rawalpindi. The squad will … Read more
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) called oof the T20I series against Australia scheduled to begin next month. The board added that the decision was taken due to strict Covid-19 border controls. NZC chief David White said a government decision to push back plans to open the border forced the cancellation of the three-match series, slated to … Read more
Patrizia Kummer, an unvaccinated Swiss snowboarder who competed in the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday after three weeks of quarantine, said she had “no difficulty” and didn’t “care what people thought” of her. Athletes who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 enter the “closed loop” bubble system immediately at the Beijing Games, but those who have not … Read more
TOKYO – Yanita Antoko has been waiting for over a year in Indonesia to join her husband in Japan. She has her papers and has closed her business selling homemade spice mixes, but remains shut out. The 30-year-old is one of more than 370,000 people left in limbo by Japan’s coronavirus border rules, which bar … Read more
Peshawar Zalmi skipper Wahab Riaz will not be a part of the squad for the team’s opening match of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2022 against Quetta Gladiators, the franchise confirmed. Wahab was tested positive for Covid-19 two days back and is now currently in quarantine, according to the franchise. The franchise further added that … Read more
Australia’s upcoming summer schedule of limited-overs series will only feature Sri Lanka after New Zealand postponed tour to Australia amid tight border controls and quarantine requirements in NZ, to control the virus outbreak, as the Kiwis return is uncertain. All the travellers visiting New Zealand had to go through a mandatory 10-day quarantine period, and … Read more
GUANGZHOU, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — Zhongshan City, south China’s Guangdong Province, reported on Thursday that a local company employee had tested positive for COVID-19 during a nucleic acid testing in the early morning. The female citizen, aged 24, is an employee in the city’s Tanzhou Town. She went to the fever clinic of a local … Read more
LOS ANGELES: The NBA, NFL and NHL are scrambling to keep teams competing, even as Covid case rates skyrocket in the United States and Canada due to the Omicron variant. As of Wednesday, the United States had hit its highest ever average of new Covid cases, with a seven-day average of 265,427 surpassing the previous … Read more
SYDNEY: England’s beleaguered Ashes tour went from bad to worse Thursday with under-pressure coach Chris Silverwood to miss the fourth Test in Sydney after a family member tested positive for the coronavirus. Silverwood and his family have to isolate in Melbourne for 10 days while the rest of the team head to Sydney for the … Read more
MIAMI: The USA v Ireland one day international cricket series scheduled for this week has been cancelled over Covid-related concerns, USA Cricket said Tuesday. The federation had already cancelled one of the three scheduled matches, but had hoped to play the remaining two on Wednesday and Thursday. “While all players in both current playing squads have returned negative Covid … Read more
PARIS: Ski ace Mikaela Shiffrin and tennis star Andrey Rublev tested positive for Covid-19 just weeks from the Winter Olympics and Australian Open respectively as a global sport once again felt the chill wind of the coronavirus. Two-time Olympic gold medallist Shiffrin will miss this week’s World Cup races in Lienz — but with a … Read more
MELBOURNE: England was rocked by a major Covid scare ahead of day two of the third Ashes Test Monday with four members of the team camp — two support staff and two family members — testing positive for coronavirus. The team and management were forced to undergo urgent rapid antigen tests just as they were … Read more
Balochistan has been on high alert after 12 suspected cases of ‘Omicron variant’ of SARS-CoV2 were found in the Kalat district of the province. Read more: NIH confirms Pakistan’s first Omicron case after analysing samples The Kalat administration asked all 12 suspected patients to move into quarantine, confirmed Bol News on Wednesday. The provincial government … Read more
The three-match One Day International series between Pakistan and West Indies have been called off due to a Covid outbreak in the visitors’ camp, both the boards announced it in a joint statement on Thursday. However, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chief Executive Officer Salman Naseer believes that there is a high probability that the … Read more
BEIRUT, Dec 9, 2021 (AFP) – The Lebanese health ministry said Thursday that it had confirmed th country’s first two cases of the Omicron variant of Covid in passengers tested upon arrival at the airport. “Two cases detected in airport testing” were confirmed to be of the Omicron variant, Health Minister Firass Abiad told a press conference. He said both … Read more
BRISBANE: After a build-up overshadowed by controversies and Covid, Australia and England’s hotly-anticipated five-Test Ashes showdown gets underway Wednesday in Brisbane with Joe Root’s men confident of defying recent history to cause an upset. Few series between the old rivals have witnessed such troubled preparations, with the tour threatened early on over Australia’s tough Covid-19 … Read more
