Public schools across the Philippines reopened for in-person classes for the first time in more than two years Monday after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ruled out more economically crippling lockdowns amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Los Angeles County is setting up mobile clinics where eligible persons can receive the shot in an effort to increase the rate of monkeypox vaccination
Authorities in Xinjiang are implementing new lockdowns in response to a coronavirus outbreak thought to have originated with Chinese tourists who visited the western region’s Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, local officials said
An independent audit of the Hong Kong government’s digital COVID-19 contact-tracing apps found significant security issues with the software but said the flaws weren’t necessarily intentionally added to allow for unauthorized tracking
United Nations deputy secretary-general Amina Mohammed meets with Liesje Schreinemacher, the Dutch minister of foreign trade and development cooperation
According to health officials, one effect of the coronavirus lockdowns was that more people drank alcohol more frequently, with the World Health drank wpublicarning of increased health concerns and a rise in risky behaviours. Svitlana Prystynska takes us to a bar with a unique approach to drinking as more bars begin to
Police officers, neighborhood committee members and community volunteers dressed in head-to-toe white PPE have been a ubiquitous feature of China’s zero-COVID policy, often shown on social media video uploads surrounding people, beating and dragging them away, or knocking on their door to put pressure on them to submit to a PCR test, to leave home for an isolation camp
A Shanghai resident who gave only the surname Cao recently spoke to RFA’s Mandarin Service about her experiences under weeks of COVID-19 lockdown, during which the city’s 26 million residents submitted on a daily basis to confinement at home
Hundreds of students protested at the weekend on the campus of Peking University (Beida) after a fence was put in place segregating them from the rest of the university, which continues to move around freely
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Ethiopia’s record drought has resulted in a huge surge in desperate parents marryying off their children, with child weddings reported more than doubling this year. Aid organisations are attempting to provide much-needed water and other assistance to drought-stricken households in an attempt to reverse the trend and protect girls