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The Chinese government has declared a decisive victory in the battle against Covid-19, claiming it had created a miracle in the history of human civilisation in successfully steering China through the global pandemic.The comments were made at a meeting presided over by President Xi Jinping on Thursday.

NEW YORK  The number of U.S. deaths dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before the coronavirus hit.Preliminary datathrough the first 11 months of the yearindicates 2022 will see fewer deaths than the previous two COVID-19 pandemic years.Current reports suggest deaths may be down about 3% from 2020 and about 7% vs. 2021.

Four German regions plan to scrap rules requiring people infected with the coronavirus to isolate at home, arguing that the pandemic has evolved and it's time for a different approach.The health ministry in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said Friday that the region and two of its neighbors, Bavaria and Hesse, as well as Germany's northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, were working on details of new rules.

Almost 60,000 people have died of Covid in China in the past five weeks, authorities have announced.China is in the grip of a major wave of the virus after abruptly lifting its zero-Covid policy restrictions in December, with some major cities estimating between 70% and 90% of their populations have been infected.

The growing number of Chinese public figures whose deaths are being made public is prompting people to question the official Covid death toll.The death of Chu Lanlan, a 40-year-old opera singer, last month came as a shock to many, given how young she was.Her family said they were saddened by her "abrupt departure", but did not give details of the cause of her death.

The Covid deaths recorded in Greenwich, Bexley, Lewisham and Bromley in the week before Christmas (Image: UGC) Around three years after the first coronavirus case was identified, deaths related to the virus are still being recorded.We've rounded up the deaths recorded in Greenwich, Bexley, Lewisham and Bromley in the week before Christmas.

About 75% of New York nursing homes must hire more workers or reduce their residents to meet new staffing minimum law, industry officials said.But national labor shortages have forced New York nursing homes to leave about 6,700 beds empty currently, suggesting further cuts could endanger the system, industry officials added.

The decision by the NHC to scrap the daily virus count comes as COVID cases surge across multiple Chinese cities.China will no longer publish daily figures for COVID-19 cases and deaths, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday, ending a practice that began in early 2020.Cities across China are struggling with surging virus cases, resulting in pharmacy shelves stripped bare and overflowing hospitals and crematoriums, after Beijing suddenly dismantled its zero-COVID regime earlier this month.

Commuters in Beijing and Shanghai are crowding roads and public transport as cities move past tough zero-COVID' policy.Mask-wearing Beijing and Shanghai commuters are crowding subway trains, with China's two biggest cities moving closer to living with COVID-19, as millions have been infected with the virus across the country.

China is reporting fewer COVID cases despite easing restrictions across the country.As China loosens the world's toughest COVID-19 restrictions, cases are declining  at least on paper.Since Beijing began to unwind its tough zero-COVID strategy following rare mass protests last month, health authorities have been reporting fewer infections each day.

Joe Biden is planning  on seeking a second term in 2024, which could make him 86 years old at the end of his presidency.Some democrats question if Biden really should run again considering his age.A  New York Times poll conducted this July with more than 800 democratic voters shows that 64 percent of them don't want Biden to be the party's next presidential candidate.

Matt Hancock's memories of how he handled care homes during the Covid pandemic has been condemned as a deluded version of events.Nadra Ahmed, the chair of the National Care Association which represents small and medium care home providers, said the former Health Secretary's account bears no resemblance to the facts.

China has locked down a major transportation hub in the south, as the country's grapples with its largest nationwide Covid outbreak since April.The lockdown also follows rising cases in Beijing, which reported the country's first Covid deaths in nearly six months.In recent days, China had just begun to ease its harsh Covid restrictions, which had crippled local and international businesses for months.