The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that no new COVID-19 variants have been detected in China according to data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Chinese CDC presented data at a closed-door meeting of the WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution on

The appearance of XBB, an offshoot of Omicron, the highly transmissible version of Covid, has been recorded in Ho Chi Minh City but it has a low infection rate with only three cases detected in December, the city’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases said on Wednesday. The hospital announced the results

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong has emphasised the necessity to strengthen supervision and take more samples for COVID-19 testing at border gates besides maintaining the current pandemic prevention and control measures as usual.   Addressing a meeting on disease surveillance and response of the Public Health Emergency

With a major shift in China’s COVID-19 policy, Beijing is putting the focus back on economic growth. To lessen the blow to the domestic economy from the surge of infected people, Chinese officials and companies are letting people who test positive for COVID-19 return to work, even though that could

An additional 163 COVID-19 infections were recorded in Vietnam on December 26, according to the Ministry of Health.   The new infections brought the country’s total number of COVID-19 cases to 11,524,436.   Meanwhile, 27 patients were declared to be free from the disease on the day, lifting the total

  The Indonesian government has decided to discontinue its largest, makeshift COVID-19 hospital occupying the former Asian Games athletes’ village in Jakarta due to a steady decline in new cases.   The makeshift hospital was set up less than three weeks after the Health Ministry confirmed the country’s first COVID-19

 India has mandated a COVID-19 negative test report for travelers arriving from China, Japan, South Korea, China’s Hong Kong and Thailand, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Saturday. Passengers from those countries would be put under quarantine if they showed symptoms of COVID-19 or tested positive, Minister Mandaviya said. India’s government