Grassroots clinics being buffed up
Sourcing sufficient medical supplies for primary healthcare clinics, recruiting recent retirees and increasing the number of fever clinics are some of the measures being taken to relieve the strain on the grassroots level amid the Omicron outbreak, health officials said on Thursday.
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More facilities open to shelter feverish patients
Makeshift fever clinics have been opened in Beijing to help receive a surge in the number of patients as part of the latest interventions against COVID-19 and seasonal flu.
Asymptomatic case tally no longer released
China will stop publishing daily asymptomatic COVID-19 case counts starting from Wednesday in order to adjust to recent shifts in testing and quarantine rules, the National Health Commission said.
Second COVID booster available for eligible people
Seniors and people identified as being at higher risk from COVID-19 are now eligible for a second vaccine booster shot, according to a notice issued on Wednesday.
Guidance on home quarantine for COVID-infected people
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Omicron BQ.1 detected on mainland
The BQ.1 subvariant of Omicron has emerged on the mainland but no marked increase in its pathogenicity has been reported, and reinfection with COVID-19 does not increase the risk of severe illness, health officials and experts said.
COVID patients positive again, but not contagious
People who tested positive again after they had been treated for COVID-19 and discharged from the hospital were not contagious, a study has found.
Experts: Omicron has lower risk of causing severe illness
Chinese experts have recently stated that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has a lower chance of causing severe illness and death compared with the flu, hence China should continue to optimize its epidemic control policies to protect the vulnerable population.
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China further optimized its COVID-19 control policies in a 10-point notice released on Wednesday. Below are some of the key adjustments.
Q&A: How to protect pregnant women, children against COVID
China is accelerating the removel of unnecessary COVID-19 restrictions based on improvements in the epidemic situation, bringing people's lives back closer to normalcy. It is more urgent for vulnerable groups, including children and pregnant women, to take more measures to protect themselves from getting infected. Here's some advice from Peking University Third Hospital and Beijing Children's Hospital of Capital Medical University experts.
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