Just over a week after we reported that “Shanghai was finally lifting its Covid lockdown“, China’s commercial capital is once again backsliding into the warm embrace of Wuhan’s proudest export, and will “briefly” lock down most of the city this weekend for mass testing as Covid-19 cases continue to emerge, causing more disruption and triggering a renewed run on groceries days after exiting... 

Mega queues formed at Portugal’s Faro Airport over the weekend, as Brits made a mad dash home from their Algarve holidays before the UK government’s new mandatory quarantine rules set in for those returning from the country. The government announced on Thursday that Portugal had been added to its ‘amber list’, which requires those entering the UK from ‘amber’ countries to spend 10 days... 

In a violent incident, residents of a tower block in Göttingen, Germany, clashed with police in an attempt to escape quarantine imposed due to a new spike in coronavirus cases. The lockdown was initiated after two people in the complex tested positive, with 120 cases confirmed by Friday. The clashes involved 200 residents trying to breach a metal barrier keeping 700 people in quarantine. Eight police... 

The leaders of Norway, Denmark, Czech Republic and Austria have announced plans to relax coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Schools and day care centres are set to reopen in Denmark on 15 April in what will be the first steps the country is taking to ease its quarantine rules, while Norway will do so five days later. Denmark went into lockdown, closing schools, day centres, restaurants, cafes, gyms... 

The opacity of the Chinese Communist government obliges responsible outside observers to look for clues to the truth of the coronavirus epidemic, instead of merely repeating official information without question. The official count from China is 3,277 fatalities from 81,171 infections as of Tuesday, but the Epoch Times noted the troubling disappearance of some 21 million cell phone accounts in China... 

A nurse from Colorado who has been battling her way through a coronavirus infection described the ordeal as much worse than she expected. Lisa Merck, an Air Force veteran, shared her experience with local media from self-quarantine at her home in Crested Butte. “It’s nothing like I expected,” Merck told KDVR. “Yes, I have coronavirus. I didn’t go out and get it on purpose.” Merck said... 

Renowned New York gynecologist Dr. Alan Berger, a political ally of Senator Ted Cruz, has entered self-quarantine amid concerns that he may have contracted the coronavirus, as reported by DailyMail.com. The 55-year-old physician, associated with NYU Langone Health, has volunteered to isolate himself, ceasing patient interactions in the process. Dr. Berger, a prominent figure who has hosted fundraisers... 

Hundreds of North Korean soldiers have reportedly died from the coronavirus and thousands of others are being quarantined. But the secretive nation’s leaders are sticking to the official narrative that the global epidemic has not reached them. According to Daily NK, a South Korean news organisation, the Covid-19 virus killed 180 North Korean soldiers in January and February and has sent another... 

Total disaster hits Iran! Iran could be almost entirely infected… here’s why. Last night 2 men from Qom who called the ambulance were already very sick and dying, they were taken to the hospital immediately but the doctors couldn’t do anything to help them as their condition was already way too late for them so they both died. Since last night until today, new cases have already... 

Japan’s global suicide mission has now begun. Hours ago, Japan’s Ministry of Health (which should be called the “Ministry of Suicide”) authorized the release of thousands of cruise ship passengers onto the streets of Tokyo, even though previous testing has found that up to 26% of tested people on the ship are infected with the coronavirus. The justification for the release was that passengers... 

World health authorities are about to commit a gross error that could literally end up costing millions of lives. So far, 355 passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship have been diagnosed with coronavirus infections. As you may recall, this started from just one passenger, then grew to 10, then 30, and now more than 10% of the entire passenger manifest is infected. The 3,000+ passengers have... 

Covid-19, as they’re now calling it, also known as the Wuhan coronavirus, is spreading so quickly into nearby Vietnam that the southeast Asian country has now implemented its own mandatory quarantine, the first outside of China. Roughly 10,000 people living near Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, are reportedly under a government-imposed lockdown after six new cases of the coronavirus were identified at... 

Belgium’s Risk Assessment Group has announced a 21-day quarantine for patients with monkeypox after three people in the country were diagnosed with the virus, which has surfaced in over a dozen countries in the past week. The health authority issued the declaration on Friday. A fourth case of monkeypox was diagnosed on Sunday, virologist Marc Van Ranst revealed on social media. He noted that, like... 

South Australian Senator Alex Antic was taken into hotel quarantine under police escort in Adelaide on Thursday night. The senator who has been very vocal against vaccine mandates is now forced to quarantine for two weeks. The bizarre incident comes after Prime Minister Scott Morrison insisted in an interview last Friday that the senator has received both doses of the COVID vaccine. The senator was... 

Mongolia has put a district in western Zavkhan Province on indefinite quarantine over a suspected bubonic plague case, the Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, citing local authorities. The patient in question is a 39-year-old resident of Uliastai district. He experienced high fever, headache, and muscle pain after eating marmot meat with his family a week ago. He has been isolated at a local hospital. At...