 | | | | Shanghai authorities will cancel many conditions for businesses to resume work from Wednesday, a city official said on Sunday, easing a city-wide lockdown that began some two months ago, and will also introduce policies to support its battered economy. | | | | | | Top North Korean officials discussed revising anti-epidemic restrictions on Sunday as they assessed the situation over the country's first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak was "improving", state media reported. | | | | | | Shanghai will ease COVID-19 testing requirements from June 1 for people who want to enter public areas or use public transport to encourage work resumption and a return to normal life, a city official said on Sunday. | | | | | | Mainland China reported 293 new coronavirus cases on May 28, of which 82 were symptomatic and 211 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. | | | | | | Shanghai reported 93 new domestically transmitted asymptomatic coronavirus cases for May 28, down from 131 a day earlier, while local symptomatic cases also fell to 29 from 39, the city government said on Sunday. | | | | | | China's capital Beijing reported 14 new domestically transmitted symptomatic coronavirus cases for May 28, down from 18 a day earlier, the city government said on Sunday. | | | | | | The meeting is seen as a once-in-a-generation chance for the health agency to strengthen its role after some 15 million deaths during the COVID pandemic. | | | | | | Mexico on Saturday reported the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the country, according to deputy health secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell. | | | | | | The Chinese metropolis of Shanghai inched further towards a gradual reopening from two months of grinding COVID-19 lockdown, while officials in Beijing prepared to ease curbs in parts of the capital, saying on Saturday its outbreak was under control. | | | | | | Ireland has confirmed its first case of monkeypox, the country's health agency said on Saturday. | | | | | |
