 | China to scrap COVID-19 quarantine for incoming passengersCurrently, arriving passengers must quarantine for five days at a hotel, followed by three days at home. That is down from as much as three weeks in the past. |
 | New Covid guidelines: Ensure oxygen supply, RT-PCR mandatory for passengers from ChinaThe Centre advised the states and union territories to ensure the availability of Liquid Medical Oxygen, cylinders and other equipment like ventilators at hospitals. |
 | Chinese leaders face anger over second child's quarantine deathVideos on social media this week that said they were shot in Guangzhou showed angry residents knocking over barriers set up by white-garbed health workers. |
 | Hong Kong to end mandatory hotel quarantine for travellersIncoming travelers will also no longer need a negative PCR test within 48 hours before boarding a plane to Hong Kong, the city's chief executive John Lee said Friday at a news conference. |
 | VSP officer booked for disproportionate assets in Andhra PradeshSleuths of the Central agency took up investigation after the steel plant officer was caught red-handed while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 6,000 on July 15, 2022. |
 | Hong Kong cuts Covid hotel quarantine to three days for arrivalsHong Kong leader John Lee said that the new policy of just three days in quarantine was made after scientific evidence and data had been analysed to control the risk factors. |
 | Musings of solitary daysShortfilm ‘QuarantinE’ by Kiran Sandhya shows how elderly people spent their lockdown days confined to home. |
 | North Korea confirms 21 new deaths as it battles Covid-19North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a ruling party Politburo meeting on Saturday described the outbreak as a historically "great upheaval" and called for unity between government and people. |
 | Hong Kong reopens beaches, Beijing relaxes quarantine rulesChina has maintained its hardline 'zero-Covid' approach but has imposed less onerous restrictions on the capital than in other cities such as Shanghai,where millions were placed under strict lockdown. |
 | A stalwart of Cantonese cinema Kenneth Tsang dies in Hong Kong Covid quarantine hotelTsang had been undergoing seven days of quarantine after returning from Singapore on Monday and was found collapsed on the floor of his hotel room by staff on Wednesday. |
 | Hotel owners distressed as TN yet to clear dues for providing quarantine facilityThe situation is the same across the State, sources with the Tamil Nadu Hotels Association said. "Most of our bills are still pending." |
 | Quarantine-free entry for select air travellersThis comes after the Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced plans to convert all its flights from India to Singapore into VTL services from March 16. |
 | Travellers coming to TN from Kerala, Maharashtra must undergo 7 days home quarantine on arrival nowTravellers arriving from other States are required to monitor their health for 14 days and visit a health facility if they develop any symptoms, the order said. |
 | After Rajya Sabha polls, Ajay Maken, Gaurav Gogoi quarantined in ManipurAs per the standard COVID-19 protocols, every individual entering Manipur – or for that matter any state of the Northeast – is sent to institutional quarantine. |
 | UP medics moved to guest house after complaints of poor arrangements in quarantine centreThe statement came after a series of videos of doctors and para-medical staffers went viral on Thursday in which they alleged that the fans were not working at the quarantine centre. |
 | Migrant labourers return home, only to face ‘boycott’Migrants returning home are finding the road to their homes barred, even as neighbours report them to the police for fear of contracting coronavirus. |
