Tag: novel coronavirus

Rep. Schiff Tests Positive for COVID-19

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced on social media on Tuesday evening. “This evening, I unfortunately tested positive for COVID-19,” the lawmaker, who is fully vaccinated and boosted against the novel coronavirus, said in a Twitter post. “I’m feeling fine, and grateful to be vaccinated and boosted. In the coming…


One Year on From First Lockdown, Britain Grieves for COVID-19 Dead

LONDON—A year to the day after they were first ordered to stay at home to contain the spread of COVID-19, Britons will remember the more than 126,000 people who have lost their lives to the virus, a toll few could have imagined in March 2020. People were being invited to observe a minute’s silence at…


China Most Active in Spreading Disinformation on COVID-19 Origin: Report

China was the most active country in propagating disinformation on the origin of the COVID-19, according to a newly-released report by the Associated Press (AP) and the Digital Forensic Research Lab of Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council. The report was the results of a nine-month joint research project, after analyzing millions of social media posts…


Chinese Citizens Needing Urgent Medical Care Are Neglected During Strict Lockdown

On Jan. 8, several cities in northern China’s Hebei Province were placed under lockdown amid a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. Then, in mid-January, local authorities in Xingtai city of Hebei Province tightened controls when confirmed cases continued to rise. The Epoch Times obtained a series of classified documents from Xingtai municipal government revealing that many…


Chinese Ambassador Repeats Conspiracy Theory That Pandemic May Have Originated in the United States

Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai has added fuel to the unproven theory that the CCP virus may have originated in the United States. Cui, in an interview with CNN that aired on Feb. 7, was asked if experts from the World Health Organizations (WHO), currently in the central Chinese city of Wuhan…


During Pandemic, China Sent Millions of Counterfeit Masks, Test Kits to US: Customs Data

China accounted for about 51 percent of counterfeit or substandard COVID-19-related products seized by U.S. customs officials from October 2019 to Sept. 30 last year, according to a newly-released report from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Among the products seized by U.S. customs officials were over 12.7 million counterfeit masks, 177,356 COVID-19 test…


US Senator Criticizes WHO for Supporting Beijing’s COVID-19 Propaganda

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) on Jan. 31 after the health body’s investigators visited a Chinese propaganda exhibition on Saturday. The WHO team is currently in Wuhan city, the epicenter of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak last year, investigating the origins of the pandemic. The CCP virus…


Chinese City Facing Food Crisis After Authorities Impose Hard COVID-19 Lockdown

China’s recent surge of CCP virus infections has made life difficult for local residents in Tonghua, a city located near the North Korean border in northeastern China’s Jilin Province. Ms. Liang, a businesswoman in Dongchang district in Tonghua, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that local authorities began to seal off her community on Jan. 15,…


Lawmakers Respond to Biden’s Decision to Have US Rejoin WHO

President Joe Biden’s decision to halt the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) has received mixed reactions from Congress. “Having the United States rejoin the World Health Organization without it undergoing serious reforms is foolish,” stated Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is a ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and…


China, WHO Made Mistakes That Contributed to Global Spread of Pandemic: Panel

An independent panel has criticized Beijing and the World Health Organization (WHO) over their delayed response to the COVID-19 outbreak in China caused by the CCP virus. “What is clear to the Panel is that public health measures could have been applied more forcefully by local and national health authorities in China in January [2020],”…