COVID-19 made hunger a critical concern as millions of Americans lost their jobs, families were homebound and supply chains disrupted. Now inflation and war are making it worse. Ensuring that people had enough food to feed their families wasn’t a partisan issue during the pandemic, when Congress approved relief measures to boost aid. And it
Restaurants in Shanghai are offering secret lights-out dining and fake recruitment drives in a bid to get around the city’s stringent COVID-19 restrictions, RFA has learned. Residents of the city told RFA that despite the official lifting of a citywide lockdown on June 1, the municipal authorities have yet to lift a ban on in-house dining.
Las hospitalizaciones por Covid-19 en la Ciudad de México han aumentado, al punto de casi alcanzar los 200 pacientes en diferentes hospitales públicos y privados de la capital. Esta información fue dada a conocer por la Secretaría de Salud de la Ciudad de México, quien informó sobre el aumento de casos en las últimas semanas.
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have been using the COVID-19 Health Code app to control the movements of protesters over failures at rural banks, according to social media posts. Some 400,000 customers of four rural banks were left unable to withdraw their money after an estimated U.S.$1.5 billion in assets were frozen
The government plans to set up a new agency at the Cabinet Secretariat to oversee responses to outbreaks of infectious diseases, government sources said Tuesday. The government also plans to merge the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and the National Center for Global Health and Medicine to create a Japanese version of the U.S. Centers
China is starting to reimpose COVID-19 restrictions just weeks after major easing in key cities, raising concern the country may once again employ strict lockdowns to control its outbreak. Beijing reported 51 new local cases for Sunday, after having single digit cases on most days last week. The city’s local government said an outbreak linked
The United States will drop pre-departure COVID-19 international air testing requirements effective Sunday at 12:01 a.m. after heavy lobbying from airlines and the travel industry, a senior administration official said. The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will no longer require pre-departure
Following an easing of border rules meaning that many people entering Japan aren’t tested for the coronavirus upon arrival, the number of positive cases found during airport screening has fallen sharply, health ministry statistics show. With the nation now open to foreign tourists on guided tours and the cap on daily arrivals having been raised
Japan’s businesses are pinning hopes on an inbound tourism recovery with the country having resumed the process of accepting foreign tourists for the first time since suspending it more than two years ago due to the coronavirus pandemic. While the economic impact of easing border measures may not be so large at first due to
Officials in a Chinese city on the border with North Korea say they can’t figure out where persistent new COVID-19 infections are coming from — and suspect the wind blowing in from their secretive neighbor. Despite being locked down since the end of April, daily cases have been trending up in Dandong, a city of
