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China sees low possibility of large-scale COVID-19 epidemic outbreak: health expert
2023-05-18
China sees low possibility of a large-scale COVID-19 epidemic outbreak in the country at the current stage, according to an expert with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC).
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Expert: COVID-19 widespread, vaccines needed fast
2023-05-17
A prominent Chinese respiratory disease expert, Zhong Nanshan, said at a medical symposium on Monday that between 20 and 25 percent of fever patients treated in clinics in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, were actually infected with some variant of COVID-19.
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NMPA holds meeting to review vaccine regulation and quality management system
2023-05-11
On May 4, the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) held a review meeting on the vaccine regulation and quality management system in 2022, to summarize the construction and operation of the system, evaluate its appropriateness, effectiveness and adequacy, and make arrangements for the key tasks in the next stage.
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Officials stress sound implementation of Class B management of COVID
2023-05-09
Chinese health officials have stressed the sound implementation of measures to manage COVID-19 as a Class B infectious disease, after the World Health Organization said the pandemic no longer constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
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China's COVID fight a guidebook for the future
2023-05-09
China took the lead in sharing COVID-19 information and virus control experience, as well as in supplying vaccines and sending medical teams, during the global fight against the disease, experts and officials said on Monday, after the World Health Organization announced the downgrading of the pandemic last week.
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COVID-19 XBB subvariants predominant in China, pathogenicity unchanged: expert
2023-05-09
The XBB subvariants of Omicron are now the predominant COVID-19 strains in China, and no significant change in pathogenicity has been observed, a virology expert said Monday.
