Quarantine

Tensions between China and Taiwan escalated Friday as a Hong Kong-owned freighter allegedly severed a vital undersea communications cable near Taiwan. The incident, echoing earlier sabotage in the Baltic Sea, has heightened fears of a potential Chinese "quarantine" of Taiwan, aimed at isolating the island from the global community.

As China marks its journey towards normalization post-pandemic, the nation has announced that it will discontinue its requirement for incoming travelers to present negative COVID-19 test results.

Stick Kennedy "on the FDA if he’d be willing to serve, or stick him on CDC," said DeSantis.

"What this means is that one of the world’s most horrific regimes is now a part of a group that sets and enforces the standards and norms for the global governance of health care. It is an absurd episode for a key U.N. agency that is in much need of self-reflection and reform,” Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of Geneva-based independent human rights organization, UN Watch, commented.

Biden's representative to the World Health Organization (WHO) Pamela Hamamoto said the Biden administration “is committed to the Pandemic Accord” and hopes the accord will be successful for "generations to come."

Ranchers warn contagious virus FMD could enter US through porous southern border, devastate livestock industry.

Pfizer's press release states the experiments are required by the U.S. government.

Since Beijing announced it is reopening China’s borders, Hong Kong announced that beginning on Dec. 29, most of the pandemic measures will be lifted but the mask mandate will remain in effect.

China has announced it will remove its quarantine requirement for travelers as of January 8.

China has announced several significant changes to how it will manage Covid-19 outbreaks.