Photo: AP / Andy Wong
Chinese health authorities have not detected any unusual or novel pathogens and provided the requested data on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The WHO had asked China for more information on Wednesday after groups... read full story
"It is just a relatively large seasonal surge, perhaps partly due to chance and partly because there's a bit of ‘immunity debt' from the lesser winter surges in the last three years,"
Photo: Residents wait at a community police station for document applications including for passports in Beijing on Feb. 14, 2023. China has increased the number of countries that its big-spending tourists can visit by more than 70 following the lifting of its last COVID-19 travel restrictions. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)