Officials in China’s central province of Henan have said that the COVID-19 infection rate in the region was 89 percent, as the country battles a surge of infections and communist authorities continue to conceal the true death toll figures. Authorities in Henan, the country’s third most populous province, said at a Monday press conference that…

As Chinese authorities continue to downplay the death toll from the country’s ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, health care workers and social media posts tell a dramatically different story. In data released on Jan. 9, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported 14,171 new confirmed cases across the country’s 31 provinces, with only three new deaths. The agency’s…

Several Chinese government organizations, including police stations, pandemic control centers, and judicial offices, are closed down temporarily amid a COVID-19 outbreak sweeping across China. Some claim that the majority of their staff have tested positive for COVID, according to the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times, which reached out to a few agencies on…

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) will no longer publish daily COVID-19 cases or death numbers after leaked data showed hundreds of millions of people nationwide were thought to have contracted the virus in December. “From today, we will no longer publish daily information on the epidemic,” the health commission said in a brief Sunday statement,…

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) will no longer publish daily COVID-19 cases or death numbers after leaked data showed hundreds of millions of people nationwide were thought to have contracted the virus in December. “From today, we will no longer publish daily information on the epidemic,” the health commission said in a brief Sunday statement,…

Long-held beliefs that a second COVID-19 infection is less likely to be more severe than the first are being shattered thanks to new research recently published in Nature Medicine. These findings applied to those patients who had received vaccines and boosters, and those who were unvaccinated. “Reinfection with COVID-19 increases the risk of both acute…

Americans are set to face a triple threat of infectious diseases as the cold weather season advances. According to experts, rates of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza, and COVID-19 are already infecting large numbers of people—and the normal flu season has barely started. Have COVID Restrictions Stunted Immunity Against Infection? “Part of the protection against…

Uganda has reported nine more Ebola cases in the capital Kampala, bringing the total number of known infections to 14 in the last two days, the health minister said on Monday. The outbreak began in September in a rural part of central Uganda. It spread earlier this month to Kampala, a city of more than…

PARIS—About 1700 people had been infected with monkeypox in France, Health Minister Francois Braun said on Monday. Braun said the government so far had opened about 100 vaccination centers for monkeypox and that more than 6,000 people have received a preventive vaccination. Braun called on patients who have lesions or other symptoms to self-isolate as…

Hong Kong reported 986 new coronavirus infections on Thursday as authorities scramble to contain an outbreak which medical experts warn could see 28,000 daily cases by the end of March. The rise in cases, up 10-fold since Feb. 1, is proving to be the biggest test for the global financial hub’s “dynamic zero” policy of…