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China to restart broad visa approvals halted due to pandemic
Updated : 2 weeks, 1 day ago IST
While most other countries began reopening to international travel earlier, China only began emerging from its zero-Covid policies in late 2022, after protests broke out against the hardline restrictions.
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Singapore Airlines reports record quarterly profit, reaffirms Air India in
Updated : 1 month ago IST
The airlines said in a statement that this is due to "the robust demand for air travel continuing into the third quarter of FY2022/23, building on the momentum that began after Singapore relaxed its border restrictions in April 2022." SIA financial year starts in April.
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Indigo's profits fly almost 1,000 pc in December quarter
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
In its earnings report published today, the airline operator attributed the rise in profits to robust demand for air travel - after Covid restrictions.
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"China portraying protestors as tools of foreign powers"
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Since China abandoned its zero-COVID policy, its domestic challenges have increased, youth unemployment is high, the economy is slowing down, and COVID infections and deaths have accelerated.
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Considering downgrading Covid-19 to same category as seasonal influenza: J
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Japan's Prime Minister orderd health ministry to review consequences of relaxing Covid related rules.
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China denies COVID vaccines to defectors from North Korea: Report
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
China has refused to provide treatment to refugees from North Korea, even after it lifted its COVID restrictions. Due to a lack of identity proof, the refugees are not provided treatment even if they face serious COVID symptoms.
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Vietnam's Lang Son province to take COVID samples of people coming to coun
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Lang Son province, a northern province of Vietnam, will be taking samples of people coming to Vietnam from China if the travelers have symptoms such as fever, coughing, or difficulty breathing, the Vietnamese newspaper VnExpress reported.
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Chinese citizens move out with vengeance, prefer Covid infections for immu
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Their logic is if they get infected and are quarantined at home for 14 days, they will recover and get immunity from the virus.
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WHO criticizes China for "under-representing" COVID-19 cases, "narrow" def
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Incidentally, the scale of the current outbreak of the Covid infections has made it difficult for the authorities to track the Covid infections, following the end of the mandatory mass testing as part of the easing of Covid restrictions.
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About 30 lakh pilgrims expected to attend West Bengal's Gangasagar Mela
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
After two years of the COVID pandemic, the Gangasagar Mela 2023 is being organised in West Bengal from January 8 to January 17 around the time of the Makar Sankranti festival. The pilgrims have already started pouring for the festival and take a holy dip in the Ganga river.
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There's no cause for retaliation..., says White House related to curbs on
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
While responding to a query about imposing restrictions on flyers from China, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, "I'll say that there's no cause for retaliation..."
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China calls covid restrictions on its travellers 'political'
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
"Some of these measures are disproportionate and simply unacceptable. We firmly reject using COVID measures for political purposes and will take corresponding measures in response to varying situations based on the principle of reciprocity," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning sai
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