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This is bbc news — im lewis vaughanjones, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the united states has announced it will require negative covid tests for travellers from china, following growing alarm at the rapid increase in chinese infections. tighter measures have also been announced by italy, japan, taiwan, and india amid concern chinas case numbers arent accurate. its sparked an angry response from beijing. translation: the argument. you mentioned is a biase...

Travel ouchlt officials said they will gradually restart outbound tourism in an orderly manner but it depends on the international situation. and now authorities also said this policy is part of china downgrading its covid management. previously covid was manage the as a class a disease. on par with cholera or the plague which was justification for the draconian zero covid measures we saw for years. >> chinas national health commission is also no longer reporting daily covid case numbers. why is...

Mucinex instasoothe. works in seconds, lasts for hours. china is doubling down on plans to ease covid restrictions as case numbers surge. beijings top authorities says starting january 8th travelers to china will no longer have to quarantine. they will have to test negative and air capacity and number of flights will be lifted. kristie lu stout joins us live from hong kong. this is a major step after three years of isolation policies. why now? whats the thinking? >> reporter: whitney, this ann...

And all the bereaved partners who are currently registered with the schemes. another public inquiry got under way, this one into the response to the covid pandemic. the inquiry chair said one word summed up the pandemic — loss. those who were bereaved lost the most. they lost loved ones and the ability to mourn properly. it is therefore right that we begin this first hearing with a minutes silence for those who died. witnesses, including ministers who made the key decisions at the time, will s...

What is your response? >> grace and i stand by the reporting we have done and the follow-up stories. i can only speak to the stories we have written, not the many follow-ups that have been done. one thing that mr. santos said in his interviews yesterday is that he denies ever committing criminal charges. there is a report that we found, a court case in brazil, that we pulled up, that suggests that he has admitted to a case of check fraud and one thing we have seen is that brazilian media outlets...

There is a lot of concern in china about these rise in case numbers. there is a lot of concern about these rising hospitalizations, but theres also a lot of relief that finally, finally, finally, this seemingly never ending lockdown does appear to be coming to end. >> doctor, how much are public health professionals here watching whats happening in china? >> were definitely watching its good to see you, by the way. its really tragic frankly whats happening in china. the healthcare systems are ov...

This morning chinas top health authority has announced that it has stopped publishing daily covid numbers as infections are soaring. they eased the virus restrictions after protests, but the toll of the recent outbreak is reportedly so much worse than officially reported. so lets go right now to kristie lu stout, she is live in hong kong. what does it move by the national health commission tell you about what is really going on there? >> reporter: takes it is a puzz move and it appears that chin...

Silence for those who died. witnesses, including ministers who made the key decisions at the time, will start giving evidence in the spring. in the summer, dozens of countries saw an outbreak of a rare, little—known disease called monkeypox. normally confined to western and central africa. in the uk, the vast majority of cases were in men who have sex with men, with infections peaking injuly. but a vaccination programme helped bring case numbers down. what do we want? fair pay! and as the year...

Has been severely limiting who can go in and out of china, with strict border controls, flights have been very limited and expensive, all arrivals had to go through quarantine in government facilities. i went through multiple quarantines myself including 21 days earlier this year. these are hard quarantines. no opening your door except for food pickups and covid tests. a lot remains unclear. we dont know how many flights will be allowed to enter the country or how easily chinese nationals will b...

As information about the china covid outbreak is getting more opaque. the health commission announced it will no longer publish daily case numbers. health authorities havent said y but it was after widespread criticism after how unreliable the data was. they reported less than 63,000 covid cases brgs you reports from bloomberg and "the financial times" showed that leaked documents showed very different internal estimates, that almost 250 million people may have caught covid in the first 20 days....