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VIDEO2:5502:55Hong Kong cuts hotel quarantine for overseas visitors to three daysStreet Signs Asia Hong Kong is reducing the amount of time travelers will need to serve hotel quarantine, from seven days down to three starting Friday. "The seven-day quarantine hotel arrangement will be changed to three days in a quarantine hotel, plus four days of...
President Joe Biden, who tested positive today for Covid-19 this morning, posts on Twitter "Folks, I'm doing great. Thanks for your concern. Just called Senator Casey, Congressman Cartwright, and Mayor Cognetti (and my Scranton cousins!) to send my regrets for missing our event today."Courtesy: White House President Joe Biden has tested negative for Covid-19 twice...
BERLIN (AP) — People infected with COVID-19 will no longer have to quarantine themselves in Austria if they don’t exhibit any symptoms, the country’s health minister announced Tuesday. The alpine country is scrapping mandatory quarantine for people who have tested positive but don’t feel ill, Austrian news agency APA reported. The new regulations will apply...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Micronesia has likely become the final nation in the world with a population of more than 100,000 to experience an outbreak of COVID-19. For more than two-and-a-half years, the Pacific archipelago managed to avoid any outbreaks thanks to its geographic isolation and border controls. Those people who flew into the...
(The Center Square) – Unless testing positive for the virus or developing symptoms, Virginia students, teachers, child-care staff and camp workers are no longer recommended to quarantine after exposure to COVID-19. If a person is exposed, but does not develop symptoms, that person can continue working, regardless of vaccination status, a release says. Students...
The Virginia Department of Health eliminated a recommendation for asymptomatic COVID-19-exposed individuals in schools to quarantine. The updated COVID-19 guidance applies to K-12 education, child care, and camps, although individuals who test positive still need to isolate at home for at least five days. “This revised guidance outlines that quarantine is no longer routinely recommended...
HONG Kong's new health chief has announced draconian plans to force Covid patients to wear an electronic tag to keep them trapped at home. The new restrictions will also see all civilians' names registered through a pandemic tracking app and movement restricted through a dystopian traffic light colour code. 3Hong Kong's health chief has...
(CNN)China has eased its quarantine policy for international arrivals, slashing the period by more than half in the biggest relaxation of entry restrictions in the country since the pandemic began.The nation has some of the world's strictest entry requirements, mandating most inbound travelers to spend at least 14 days at a government quarantine facility followed...
Hong Kong (CNN Business)Shanghai Disneyland will reopen Thursday after a three-month hiatus, as China eases more Covid-related restrictions. Shanghai Disney Resort said Tuesday the park would resume operations "with limited daily capacity and enhanced health and safety protocols" in line with Chinese government regulations. "During the initial reopening phase, the majority of Shanghai Disneyland's exciting...
REDWOOD CITY – Final arguments in Scott Peterson’s attempt to overturn his murder conviction were postponed Tuesday after one of his lawyers contracted COVID-19 and Peterson was put on “loose quarantine” at San Quentin State prison after his pod was exposed. The hearing in the notorious case that dates back two decades had been scheduled...
For more than two years, overseas travelers have had to quarantine upon arrival in China because of Covid restrictions. Pictured here at Beijing International Airport on June 18, 2022, are passengers waiting to be taken to quarantine-designated destinations.Leo Ramirez | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — China cut the quarantine period for international travelers on...
China's population has suffered more severe mental health problems during the Covid pandemic than other nations due to the government's draconian lockdowns and unpredictable restrictions, a study has found. Whilst anxiety and depression have increased globally by 25 per cent since the beginning of the pandemic, that figure is much higher in China where millions of...
The Virginia Department of Health released new quarantine guidelines for those who are exposed to COVID-19, as it said immunity rates are rising. If you are exposed to COVID-19, but are up to date on your vaccines or you have tested positive for and recovered from COVID-19 in the last six months, you will not...
Residents of the beleaguered Chinese city of Shanghai are panic buying once again after government workers started erecting high fences to lock in residential districts in its increasingly desperate battle to contain COVID-19. Residents of the city of more than 27 million people were recently freed from a months-long lock down that was characterized...
Hong Kong (CNN)Shanghai is further tightening its stringent lockdown measures after China's top leader Xi Jinping pledged to "unswervingly" double down on the country's controversial zero-Covid policy, leaving millions confined to their homes with no end in sight.Over the weekend, videos showing Shanghai residents arguing or scuffling with hazmat suit-clad workers and police officers while...
"The mRNA vaccines are a miracle, but they weren't perfect," he said. "And so next time, people will have much better vaccines and, and better therapeutics as well." Gates stated, "We're going to create some new flu vaccines that that are much better." Bill Gates: Vaccines are imperfect in 2 very important ways...pic.twitter.com/kMlnWGty9K —...
BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong on Thursday reopened beaches and pools in a relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions, while China’s capital Beijing began easing quarantine rules for arrivals from overseas. Hong Kong had closed water sports venues amid an outbreak of the highly transmissible omicron variant but has been tailing off restrictions as new case numbers...
A man convinced he had Covid taped his car shut and stayed inside for ten hours without even opening the window. The Beijing resident had decorators round that morning who told him they tested positive, the China News Service reported. At midday on Tuesday he got into his slick white coupe and didn't move till...
Kunming, China (CNN)Beijing is partially locking down to control a Covid outbreak that could completely shutter the Chinese capital. But just as the government is tightening controls in the city -- testing 21 million residents, shutting schools and some shopping malls -- I'm trying to get in.Flights from Tokyo to Beijing this week were impossible...
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield tested positive for covid on Friday, she announced, adding that she was not considered a close contact to President Joe Biden. Bedingfield, who is vaccinated and boosted, said she last saw the president on Wednesday but wore a mask when meeting with him. 'This morning, I tested positive for...
The red flatbed trucks began arriving after dawn, men in white hazmat suits unloading sections of green metal caging. Residents peered nervously from windows of tall apartment blocks, as the figures below erected the fencing across the entrances to their skyscrapers, caging them into their homes. This is the Pudong district of Shanghai, deemed a...
VETERAN actor Kenneth Tsang has died in a quarantine hotel in Hong Kong, reports say. He was 87. His long screen career included roles in blockbuster Hollywood action films such as Die Another Day and Rush Hour 2. 1Veteran actor Kenneth Tsang has died at the age of 87Credit: AFP Tsang was in mandatory quarantine...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Unvaccinated children aged five to 11 traveling with a fully vaccinated adult will no longer need a COVID-19 test to enter Canada beginning Monday, the federal government said. Pre-entry tests will still be needed for partially vaccinated or unvaccinated travelers over the age of 12 who are eligible to travel to...
Hong Kong (CNN)The glittering skylines of Hong Kong and Shanghai have long been associated with wealth and glamor. But in recent weeks, they have become synonymous with a much grimmer reality, as authorities in the two international finance hubs struggle to contain raging Omicron outbreaks.Extreme Covid measures have heavily restricted the lives of residents in...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia on Thursday reduced the required quarantine period from two weeks to one for arriving travelers who are not fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, acting after recording consistently low numbers of new infections in recent days. The Health Ministry also said that travelers arriving by air who have not been...
(CNN)The men came after 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the dead of the night, banging on an apartment door in a rundown housing complex in Shanghai. When nobody answered, they pried open the lock and barged in, rousing a 92-year-old woman from her bed.The visitors demanded to take the woman and her 74-year-old son to...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles County health officials have updated quarantine rules for people exposed to COVID-19 and who are asymptomatic.Under the order revised Friday, people who had close contact with a virus patient but are not showing any symptoms and do not live or work in a "high-risk setting" are not required to...
In the latest pandemic shift in California, state health officials now say asymptomatic people who are exposed to COVID-19 do not need to quarantine anymore.Previously, anyone who was exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 had to quarantine for five days, even if they did not show symptoms.Now, the new recommendation could lead to...
California is no longer recommending a five-day quarantine period for people who are exposed to the coronavirus but remain asymptomatic, a move that could potentially result in a relaxation of similar rules in Los Angeles County. Doing so, officials say, would relieve the burden for employers and institutions to keep otherwise healthy people at...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Monday that she has tested negative for COVID-19 after disclosing an asymptomatic infection last week. “Today, happily I tested negative for COVID,” the California Democrat, 82, wrote on Twitter. “Tomorrow, I will be exiting isolation at the direction of the Capitol’s Attending Physician and consistent with CDC guidelines for...
THIS is the sick moment a pet corgi is beaten to death by a health care worker after his owner tests positive for Covid amid a strict lockdown in China. The vile incident sparked fury online amid growing frustration with Beijing's latest lockdowns. 5A health care worker was captured beating a corgi to death 5The...
(CNN)Scuffles in the produce section, aisles packed with panicked shoppers and shelves stripped bare of food.Video posted to social media Sunday shows chaotic scenes erupting in Shanghai after authorities announced part of the city would enter a large-scale lockdown to stop the spread of Covid-19.The two-phase lockdown -- which saw the eastern half of the...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia will lift all quarantine requirements for overseas visitors entering the country, its tourism minister said Monday, two years after it imposed border restrictions due to COVID-19. Tourism and Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno told reporters that foreign tourists will still be required to have a negative PCR test before entering the...
Hong Kong (CNN Business)Hong Kong announced Monday that it would lift flight bans and shorten quarantine requirements after two years of tough Covid restrictions that have hurt the city's economy and standing among global business.In a press conference Monday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that residents of nine countries, including India, the United Kingdom and...
ROME (AP) — Italy, where the COVID-19 pandemic first erupted in the West in February 2020, is easing many restrictions over the coming weeks, including requirements for most workplace vaccination and mask-wearing. Health Minister Roberto Speranza told reporters after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday that quarantine will no longer be required for those coming...
(CBS Detroit) — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced a new update on its COVID-19 Isolation & Quarantine guidance as the state enters post-surge, recovery phase. The department says the update does not change guidance for health care, long-term care, corrections and other high-risk settings. READ MORE: Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Trial Symbol...
VIDEO4:1404:14Singapore wants to shift to 'quarantine-free vaccinated travel'Squawk Box Asia Singapore wants to eventually allow all travelers to skip quarantine in the country as long as they are vaccinated, Transport Minister S. Iswaran said. In an interview with CNBC on Thursday, he said: "With greater vaccination and boosting of populations, and also better testing and...
Hawaii is the final state to lift its mask mandate, which will end on March 25, although the state is leaving the door open to reinstitute the mandate if necessary, Gov. David Ige (D) announced on Tuesday. Over the last few weeks, several blue state leaders have opted to lift their indoor mask requirements —...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers this month, meaning that starting on March 26 those arriving from other places in the U.S. won’t have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to avoid sequestering themselves for five days. People look at Sandy Beach, on...
Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers this month, meaning that starting on March 26 those arriving from other places in the U.S. won't have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to avoid sequestering themselves for five days.Hawaii is the only U.S. state to implement a coronavirus quarantine program...
Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers on March 25. The ending of the state’s Safe Travels Hawaii program also means domestic travelers will not have to show proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test results. Additionally, travelers will not be required to provide travel information, nor will they have to...
Now more than ever, you need a COVID Plan B when you travel abroad. Otherwise, you could find yourself stuck in quarantine, which may feel like prison. Susan Bilhorn had a COVID-19 Plan B, which included buying travel insurance, packing extra medications — and booking her trip with the right tour company. Good thing she...
I'll take the designer quarantine package, please! Some lucky New Yorkers who stayed in taxpayer-funded quarantine hotels in the city were gifted designer Coach items as a parting gift for safely completing their quarantine. Sam Szabo, 32, of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was staying at the Queens' LaGuardia Plaza Hotel in November when he was handed what...
A group of Canadian premiers and U.S. governors is calling for an end to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truck drivers. The government leaders, made up of two Canadian premiers and 16 governors from the United States, penned a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden requesting they...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan announces plans to ease tough COVID-19 border controls, shorten quarantine requirement following criticism. Copyright © 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.
By DAVE SKRETTA BEIJING (AP) — American figure skater Vincent Zhou is out of quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 at the Beijing Games, and he plans to perform in the exhibition gala that traditionally closes the Olympic program on Sunday. Zhou, who grew up in Palo Alto, had just helped the U.S....
The transit hall of Changi International Airport in Singapore on Jan. 12, 2022.Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore intends to allow vaccinated visitors from all countries to skip quarantine on arrival when the omicron wave has passed, authorities announced on Wednesday during a virtual press briefing. Health Minister Ong Ye Kung...
BEIJING (AP) — American figure skater Vincent Zhou is out of quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 at the Beijing Games, and he plans to perform in the exhibition gala that traditionally closes the Olympic program on Sunday. Zhou had just helped the U.S. win team silver on Feb. 7 when he got a phone...
My son was told his headaches were long Covid but it was much worse – I knew it was serious