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China releases five-year plan for enhanced birth defect prevention
2023-08-29
China's National Health Commission has released a five-year plan aimed at more efficient prevention and control of birth defects and reducing the incidence of birth defect-related fatalities and disabilities.
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TCM infrastructure gets $2.6b boost
2023-08-25
China has invested central funds worth 19 billion ($2.6 billion) into building traditional Chinese medicine infrastructure during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), a health official said on Thursday.
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EG.5 most prominent substrain of COVID-19
2023-08-23
The EG.5 substrain of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has become the most prominent source of coronavirus infections in China, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday.
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Health awareness of Chinese continues to improve: NHC
2023-08-23
The health awareness level of the Chinese people was 27.78 percent in 2022, 2.38 percentage points higher than the previous year, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Monday.
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Don't worry about third wave of COVID, experts say
2023-08-14
Despite rising numbers of people on social media claiming to have been infected with COVID-19 for a third time recently, experts have said that those reinfected most likely only had mild symptoms.
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China issues new round of COVID-19 vaccination plan for key groups
2023-08-09
China's State Council inter-agency task force for COVID-19 response has issued a plan for a new round of COVID-19 vaccination for the country's elderly and other key groups.
