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NICOSIA, Cyprus - The government of Cyprus said Wednesday it will require all passengers arriving from China to produce evidence of a negative coronavirus test as the Asian country grapples with a nationwide COVID-19 outbreak.Are you on Telegram?Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia's war in Ukraine.

The World Health Organisation again urged China's health officials to regularly share specific, real-time information on the country's Covid surge, as the UK joined other countries in bringing in travel restrictions, citing a lack of data as the reason.WHO Covid experts met Chinese officials on Friday and again stressed the importance of transparency and regular sharing of data to formulate accurate risk assessments and to inform effective response, said the WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The news has raised hopes that the outbreak, which has infected 142 people and killed 56, could end soon.Uganda has discharged its last known Ebola patient from hospital, a senior health official has said, raising hopes that an outbreak that has killed at least 56 people would end soon.Officials first confirmed the outbreak in September and said it was the Sudan strain of the virus, which kills 40 to 60 percent of those it infects and for which there is no proven vaccine.

It might seem like Christmas is coming early for students in Uganda as millions of them head home early for the school holidays on Friday.Yet the decision to close schools nationwide two weeks before the end of term has been taken to curb the spread of Ebola, as the country continues to battle one of its worst outbreaks.

In Colombia, a new illicit product is on the rise.Desperate consumers are sneaking it in suitcases from abroad, hoarding it in their homes, paying outrageous prices online and lining up at clandestine locations to buy it.The contraband? Dijon mustard.A new health law intended to improve Colombians' diets which are heavy on meat and fried food has led to the disappearance of a host of fare from market shelves, including the French delicacy of the condiment world.

FILE - A man walks past a wall that reads in Portuguese "Memorial to the victims of COVID-19 in Brazil," in the Senate building in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022.Brazil has officially recorded its 700,000th death from COVID-19, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.(AP Photo/Claudio Reis, File)SAO PAULO - Brazil's government on Tuesday reported the 700,000th death from COVID-19 in the South American nation, which has the second most victims of the virus after the United States.

A strong majority of the U.N. Security Council urged Afghanistan's Taliban rulers Friday to immediately reverse all oppressive restrictions on girls and women.The council then went into a closed meeting to discuss the Taliban's latest ban on woman working for humanitarian groups, a move that is exacerbating the already critical humanitarian crisis in the country.

The European Commission was debating a bloc-wide response to the end of China's zero-Covid containment measures on Thursday, following Italy's adoption of mandatory testing for all travellers arriving from China.Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni continued to push for a common approach from EU member states as she revealed that Italy's testing so far had not found any new coronavirus strains.