COVID testing

Overall cases have dropped as cities across the country ease restrictions and COVID testing requirements.

Britain has one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in the world, with more than 177,000 deaths since the pandemic started in 2020.

Despite easing COVID restrictions in Beijing and Shanghai, residents have been told to go through COVID testing every few days.

Authorities in Macau have locked down multiple buildings and put more than 5,000 people in quarantine in the past few days.

Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste.

Seven of the Shanghai's 16 districts would carry out PCR testing for all residents over the weekend due to the discovery of a few cases.

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Shanghai residents face hours waiting in line for virus tests and the negative results they must show to be allowed to enter public spaces.

China's capital Beijing swiftly expanded its COVID-19 mass testing from one district this week to most of the city of nearly 22 million.

Foreign visitors would still need to be fully vaccinated.

Carrie Lam calls for calm after residents emptied supermarkets, stocking up on produce ahead of reports of compulsory mass COVID-19 testing.

Most states require travellers to have a negative test result 72 hours before departure in order to be allowed entry.

The Actors' Equity Association had called on Walt Disney Co's to provide regular COVID-19 testing for its members, who cannot wear protective masks while performing as other park employees do.

The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".

Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.

It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.

This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.

'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.

It represents a big legal victory for Donald Trump, who won the Nov. 5 US election and is set to return to office on Jan. 20.

Rescue services said the plane hit the ground, split into pieces and slid over 100 metres (110 yards).