President Tsai Ing-wen said everyone had seen the rise in cases in China, which views Taipei as its own territory and has ramped up military pressure to assert those claims.
The United Kingdom has joined a growing list of countries, including India, to introduce curbs on travellers from China amid a surge in coronavirus cases in the country.
Travellers from the five Asian countries, along with Hong Kong, will have to take the test within 72 hrs of travel to India starting Sunday, said Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.
Japan said it would limit flights from Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China to Tokyo's two airports, plus Osaka & Nagoya from Friday, ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday rush.
For 3 years, China has seen Covid on par with the bubonic plague and cholera. Since last week, officials have acknowledged the reduced ability of the virus to cause disease.
Curbs were lifted in parts of Guangzhou, near Hong Kong. Chongqing will allow close contacts of people with Covid, who fulfil certain conditions, to quarantine at home.
Cities like Guangzhou and Chongqing with thousands of cases are struggling to contain outbreaks while hundreds of infections were recorded in several cities across the country on Sunday.
The incident sparked widespread public anger as many internet users said the residents could not escape in time because the building was partially locked down.
Words like 'ghuspethiye' or 'tushtikaran' resonate very little in West Bengal, nor do phrases like 'mangalsutra' or Amit Shah's distortion of Mamata Banerjee's 'Maa, Mati, Manush' slogan into 'mullah, madrasa, mafia'.
In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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