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In a major shift to its Covid Zero policy, China on Tuesday reduced quarantine times for incoming travelers by half as its draconian measures to curb the Covid-19 pandemic left its huge economy isolated. Incoming travelers to China will…

China is halving the time that people arriving from overseas must stay in a Covid-19 quarantine facility, reducing it from two weeks to one, the country’s National Health Commission said on Tuesday.The step was welcomed by some investors…

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…

<!-- -->China closed off its international borders at the beginning of the pandemic. (Representational)Beijing: China on Tuesday reduced the length of mandatory quarantine for inbound travellers, in the biggest relaxation of entry…

Ron Daymond and Evelyn Herskovitz were stunned when they were ordered to quarantine for 14 days after returning to the Canadian land border on May 22 following a day-trip to Plattsburgh, N.Y.The fully vaccinated couple said a border officer…

It is a painfully familiar scenario – a mystery virus sweeps the globe, the public is put on alert and scientists frantically search for answers.Only this time it’s not Covid that’s posing the threat but monkeypox, an infection that until…

Belgium has become the first country to make the 21-day quarantine compulsory for the monkeypox patients after four cases of the disease have been reported last week. The Belgian health authorities took this decision on Friday, Saudi…

In this 1971 Center For Disease Control handout photo, monkeypox-like lesions are shown on the arm and leg of a female child in Bondua, Liberia.CDC | Getty ImagesBelgium has become the first country to introduce a mandatory 21-day…

Thousands of Covid-negative Beijing residents were forcibly relocated to quarantine hotels overnight due to a handful of infections, as the capital begins to take more extreme control measures resembling virus-hit Shanghai. Beijing has been…

Photo: AFP/file BEIJING: Thousands of COVID-negative Beijing residents were forcibly relocated to quarantine hotels overnight due to a handful of infections, as the capital begins to take more extreme control measures resembling…