A 33-minute documentary titled with “The Post-Pandemic Era” by Japanese director Ryo Takeuchi, features China’s efficient pandemic control and economic recovery made its debut on Jan. 1, 2021.

China shipped 438.5 billion yuan worth of anti-pandemic materials to over 200 countries and regions from March to December, 2020, according to the latest foreign trade data released by the General Administration of Customs.

Athletes and their teams began arriving in Melbourne from Thursday ahead of next month's Australian Open (AO), despite several big names testing positive for COVID-19.

China's top economic planner said Friday that the prevention and control of COVID-19 will be the top priority in the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush.

China will realize universal health code recognition across the country during Spring Festival travel rush, an official said on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the mass vaccination of all Russians against coronavirus from Monday amid reports of a slower-than-expected initial vaccine rollout.

Portugal registered 156 deaths related to COVID-19 and 10,556 new cases of infection with the new coronavirus on Wednesday, the highest daily value of infections since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Directorate General for Health (DGS).

A total of 83,850 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been given since Taiyuan started a vaccination campaign targeting key groups such as medical workers, polices, firemen, front-line workers preventing epidemic, front-line workers handling imported cold-chain food, workers in quarantine areas and workers, Taiyuan Municipal Health Commission said on Thursday. The vaccinators did not show serious adverse reactions after mass vaccinations.

Two members of the international expert team of the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to fly from Singapore to China's Wuhan on Thursday have been tested positive for IgM antibodies.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the countrywide COVID-19 vaccination drive on Saturday, a statement issued by the federal health ministry said.

In Europe, the United Kingdom logged a new record number of deaths at 1,564 over 24 hours, taking the overall toll to 84,767.Spain registered a record daily number of coronavirus cases on Wednesday, with nearly 39,000 new infections over the prior 24 hours, its health ministry said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday received his first dose of vaccine as the country has started mass vaccination against COVID-19.

Construction workers on Wednesday started building a centralized medical observation center in Shijiazhuang, where clustered COVID-19 cases occurred.

The most urgent focus now for the World Health Organization (WHO) is ensuring that all countries have access to vaccines on an equitable basis, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday.

Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province reported 43 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 31 asymptomatic infections on Thursday, local health authorities said on Friday.

The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 144 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, of whom 135 were locally transmitted and the rest arrived from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said Friday.

Three-time Grand Slam winner Andy Murray of Britain has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of his trip to Australia, British media reported on Thursday.

China will step up inspections of imported frozen products to prevent the spread of COVID-19 via cold chains, an official with the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said on Thursday.

Turkey launched Thursday the mass vaccination program against COVID-19 with the vaccines developed by China's Sinovac company.

China exported 224.2 billion masks between March and the end of December in 2020 to assist the international community in fighting COVID-19, official data showed Thursday.

The first group of 12 confirmed COVID-19 cases from the Hebei outbreak have recovered and been discharged from hospital on Thursday. Another 18 asymptomatic cases were also recovering after being taken off medical observation.

Indonesia launched its massive COVID-19 vaccination program on Thursday with health workers as the main priority group, a day after President Joko Widodo received the first shot developed by China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has defended the purchase of the COVID-19 vaccines developed by the Chinese makers, saying the Chinese vaccines are "safe, sure, and secure."

An international expert team of the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived in China's Wuhan on Thursday.

An international expert team from the World Health Organization arrived in China on Thursday to conduct joint scientific research with Chinese scientists on the origin of the novel coronavirus.

Shijiazhuang launched the second round of citywide nucleic acid testing on Tuesday. The Mobile cabin PRC rapid detection laboratory helps with the citywide nucleic acid testing.

A large-scale transfer of thousands of people to centralized quarantine facilities is taking place in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, as the local government ramps up efforts to further strengthen its measures against the outbreak.

The health department of the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil, announced on Tuesday that the presence of IgG antibodies, specific for SARS-CoV-2 virus, was detected in serum samples from December 2019.

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca on Wednesday received the Chinese COVID-19 Sinovac vaccine along with Turkey's advisory science council members, one day before the nationwide vaccination begins.

Construction workers on Wednesday started building a centralized medical observation center in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, where clustered COVID-19 cases occurred.

Rumors ran wild last weekend in China that the Tokyo Olympics would be canceled and moved to 2032, immediately causing a stir among athletes who had planned to compete at the showpiece event in under 200 days.

Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province reported 43 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 68 asymptomatic infections on Wednesday, local health authorities said on Thursday.

The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported 138 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, of whom 124 were locally transmitted and the rest arrived from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said Thursday.

It is highly unlikely that China will experience a major resurgence of the novel coronavirus during the upcoming Spring Festival, given that the nation has created containment measures to quickly identify, isolate and control any possible outbreaks, a health official said on Wednesday.

China will expand the target population for COVID-19 vaccination to include elderly people aged over 60 years old, a health official said Wednesday.

Chinese and Brazilian experts cautioned against misinterpretation of the 50.4 percent efficacy rating from the Brazilian trial of CoronaVac, a COVID-19 vaccine candidate made by China's Sinovac Biotech.

Vaccinations for the general public against COVID-19 are expected to start around Spring Festival, which begins on Feb 12, China's health authorities said.

China is ready to further advance cooperation with Indonesia regarding COVID-19 vaccines and jointly promote the vaccines' accessibility and affordability in developing countries, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.

Shijiazhuang launched the second round of citywide nucleic acid testing on Tuesday. Bethune Medical Team from the affiliated hospital of Third Military Medical University are active at the frontline of nucleic acid testing and make contributions to epidemic prevention.

COVID-19 vaccination tents are set up in the north of the Toy Story parking lot at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, U.S., Jan. 12, 2021. The parking lot is located of Katella Avenue and sits southeast Disneyland. (Photo：VCG)

Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday received a COVID-19 vaccine shot developed by China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that a WHO team in China is working with producers of the Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines for potential emergency use listings.

An innovative recognition machine has been put into use in Shanghai's Sijing Hospital, enabling the elderly without smart phones to quickly enter within a few seconds.

The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 115 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, of whom 107 were locally transmitted and the rest arrived from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said Wednesday.

China has decided to provide Myanmar with COVID-19 vaccines and is providing epidemic control supplies to help it fight the virus as State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi wrapped up his two-day visit to the Southeast Asian country on Tuesday.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is set to expand a state of emergency declared over the COVID-19 pandemic for the Greater Tokyo area to include Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures as the virus is also continuing to surge in western Japan.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Tuesday a new requirement for a negative COVID-19 test to all air passengers entering the United States.

Two huge paintings of the terms "Come on, China!" and "Keep fighting, Dalian University of Technology!" were created on the snow by faculty members and students from Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province.

A total of 15 million doses of raw materials of COVID-19 vaccine from the Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech arrived at Indonesia's Soekarno-Hatta Airport on Tuesday, the National Disaster Management Agency said.

Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac is partnering with Malaysian pharmaceutical company Pharmaniaga for the supply of 14 million doses of its inactivated COVID-19 vaccines to Malaysia after the two companies signed an agreement on Tuesday.

North China's Hebei Province reported a total of 326 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and 234 asymptomatic cases from Jan. 2 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, Vice Governor Xu Jianpei said on Tuesday.

As many as eight gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are presumed to have contracted COVID-19 from a human handler after one of the animals tested positive, marking the first known transmission of the virus to apes, zoo officials said on Monday.

Researchers from the University of Milan have recently found that a woman in the northern Italian city was infected with COVID-19 in November 2019, according to media reports.

The areas to impose tightened measures include the capital Kuala Lumpur, the states of Penang, Selangor, Melaka, Johor and the northern Borneo state of Sabah, among others.

North China's Hebei Province reported 40 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and 26 asymptomatic cases on Monday, the provincial health commission said Tuesday.

Shijiazhuang has launched a second round of nucleic acid testing in high-risk & medium-risk areas and will start the second round of citywide nucleic acid testing on Tuesday, a government official said on Monday.

Shijiazhuang and Xingtai -- two cities in North China's Hebei Province --　have reported 265 locally transmitted cases COVID-19 cases since the beginning of 2021.

Indonesia's food and drug authority BPOM on Monday issued the emergency use authorization for Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine as the country will begin administering doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.

The mission of the research team to arrive in China for novel coronavirus origin-tracing is about scientific answers, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Monday.

The sluggish rollout of COVID-19 vaccines across the United States highlights the challenges of a decentralized distribution plan that relies on states and localities to handle the complicated last-mile logistics of getting shots into people's arms.

Around 76 percent of discharged COVID-19 patients were found to have at least one ongoing symptom six months after falling ill, with fatigue, muscle weakness and sleep difficulties being the most common.

Automated equipment is playing a critical role in government efforts to carry out mass testing campaigns in a bid to pinpoint COVID-19 infections for isolation and treatment faster and more accurately.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reiterated its confidence in the host of the Tokyo 2020 and reaffirmed the joint effort to host the Games in an e-mail interview with Xinhua on Monday.

It was way beyond Wang Xinjian and his wife Zhang Qiqi's imagination that a COVID-19 outbreak hit Shijiazhuang barely one month after their restaurant opened to customers at a residential compound in the city.

The Chinese mainland on Monday recorded 55 new COVID-19 cases – 42 of local transmission and 13 from overseas, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday.

An international expert team from the World Health Organization will arrive in China on Thursday to conduct joint scientific research with Chinese scientists on investigating COVID-19, the National Health Commission said on Monday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) vowed on Monday to speed up rolling out safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines and their equitable allocation across the world.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, four weeks after he was administered the first shot.

China will stand firm with Myanmar to jointly fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, push for economic recovery and build the China-Myanmar community with a shared future, visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday.

Nine vehicles and 10 volunteers from the Blue Sky rescue team were dispatched to disinfect novel coronavirus-hit Shijiazhuang city, Hebei Province on Sunday.

More than 1 million people have been vaccinated in Beijing as of Mon, Beijing authority said. The Chinese capital started inoculating key groups with COVID-19 vaccines since the New Year.

The Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University on Sunday sent a vehicle-carried mobile CT scanner to north China's Hebei Province to support COVID-19 control and prevention there.

A latest opinion poll has shown that more than 80 percent of respondents think the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games should be canceled or postponed again.

Shijiazhuang, capital of North China's Hebei province, will soon launch the second round of citywide nucleic acid testing, Meng Xianghong, vice mayor of the city, told a press conference on Sunday.

Beijing has tightened rules for the city's taxi and ride-hailing services after a new asymptomatic COVID-19 case was reported Saturday involving a driver on a ride-hailing platform.

Experts estimate that patient zero, the first patient in the Hebei province coronavirus outbreak recently, would have been infected before Dec 15, based on gene sequencing and an epidemiological survey.

More than 9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered across China, and the safety and efficacy of the vaccines have been proved, a top health official said.

The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 103 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, of whom 85 were locally transmitted and the rest arrived from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said Monday.

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 90 million on Sunday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

The British government on Saturday urged Britons to "stay at 四方集運查詢" in a major advertising campaign to help protect Britain's national health system and save lives as surging coronavirus cases are threatening to overwhelm hospitals in the country.

China will take more stringent epidemic prevention and control measures amid higher risks of COVID-19 contagion during this winter-spring period, especially the upcoming Spring Festival holiday..

A new Chinese study found that vaccines currently available for mass vaccination in China can effectively neutralize the new coronavirus variant first identified in the UK last month, according to an official in charge of vaccine development under the State Council on Saturday.

More than 9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in China, said a senior health official at a press conference on Saturday.

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 10,431,639 on Saturday as 18,222 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, said the latest data from the federal health ministry.

China is ready to receive a World Health Organization (WHO) expert team for investigations into the origin of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Saturday.

The cost of COVID-19 vaccination, including both vaccines' expenses and inculation fees, will be covered by medical insurance fund and government fiscal, rather than individuals, said a Chinese official at a press conference on Saturday.

France's health authorities on Friday registered another 19,814 COVID-19 cases, down from Thursday's 21,703 but well above the government's target of 5,000 daily cases to ease restrictions.

Greece will extend the nationwide lockdown by another week to Jan. 18 to cope with the new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nikos Hardalias, Deputy Minister for Civil Protection and Crisis Management, announced on Friday.

Japan reported a record 7,841 new COVID-19 infections on Friday, setting a record high for the fourth straight day as the state of emergency over the pandemic came into effect for the Greater Tokyo area.

From Saturday to 10 a.m. Friday, China's Hebei Province reported 127 new locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, the provincial health commission said on Friday.

Iconic landmarks in London lit up blue in a renewed gesture of thanks to the NHS and frontline workers, London, Britain, Jan. 7, 2021.

People receive their COVID-19 vaccinations at a temporary vaccination site in Haidian District of Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 8, 2021. A city-wide campaign of vaccination against COVID-19 is underway in Beijing.

A total of 10 medical teams from two provinces in east China have been assigned to Hebei Province to help with nucleic acid testing as Hebei has reported over 100 confirmed COVID-19 cases since the beginning of 2021.

The California Department of Public Health updated its official Travel Advisory, suggesting that residents avoid travel to any part of the state more than 193 km from their 四方集運查詢s and strongly discouraging non-essential travelers from other states or countries.

The exhibition of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic torches across the greater Tokyo area has been postponed due to the worsening situation of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brazil has signed an agreement with the Butantan Institute of Sao Paulo to purchase 100 million doses of CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccines, developed by Chinese company Sinovac, Brazilian Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Thursday.

The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 53 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, of whom 37 were locally transmitted and the rest arrived from outside of the mainland, the National Health Commission said Friday.

The United States witnessed another grim milestone on Wednesday amid the chaos at the Capitol, with the country's daily COVID-19 cases, deaths as well as total hospitalizations all set new world records over the course of the pandemic.

A total of 17 young people, with an average age of 19, joined the volunteer team, delivering food, necessities and epidemic prevention materials for teachers and students quarantined in the dorm area. They have delivered 12,219 meals for 5,109 teachers and students.

A total of 52 cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in Britain have been confirmed in the United States, according to data updated Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Germany reported more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours for the second consecutive day, bringing the death toll in the country to 37,607, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Thursday.

A lockdown has been imposed on Hebei's capital city Shijiazhuang. Residents and vehicles are not allowed to leave, and residents' movements within the city will also be limited, after the capital reported its highest single-day COVID-19 cases number on Thursday.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency in the Tokyo metropolitan area including Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures on Thursday, authorizing tougher measures to fight a resurgence in COVID-19 infections.

Peru has signed an agreement with Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinopharm to acquire its vaccine against COVID-19, with the first 1 million doses to arrive this month, Peruvian President Francisco Sagasti announced Wednesday.

Vehicles are not allowed to enter or exit all areas administrated by Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, except for those transporting materials or necessities for the city's fight against the current COVID-19 outbreak.

Cakes in the shape of vaccination syringes and with the slogan '2021 Bye Bye Corona' are sold at Schuerener Backparadies bakery in Dortmund, western Germany, during a partial lockdown to curb the spread of the ongoing novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to start manufacturing Sinopharm's coronavirus vaccines and also buy millions of doses from the company, the country's Ministry of Health and Prevention announced Tuesday.

Travelers who take flights to China's Macao Special Administrative Region from abroad will need to have negative nucleic acid reports valid within three days before departing, starting on Jan. 13.

U.S. COVID-19 deaths surpassed 360,000 on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

China is still in consultation with the World Health Organization over details for a visit by international experts to trace the origins of COVID-19, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Wednesday.

China's National Health Commission said Thursday that it received reports of 63 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Wednesday, of which 52 were locally transmitted and 11 were imported.

The coronavirus variant that was first identified in Britain was likely in the United States by December 2020, and could already be in every U.S. state now, said an article on the Business Insider website Wednesday.

Nearly 2.13 million children in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to the latest data of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association.

Senegal's COVID-19 cases surpassed the 20,000 mark with 192 new confirmed cases detected in the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry announced.

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Wednesday expressed appreciation of a recent documentary by a Japanese director which records truthfully without bias China's efforts in epidemic prevention and control, and work and production resumption.

China has started inoculating people with domestically produced COVID-19 vaccines, planning to up annual capacity to reach one billion vaccines or more.

Tokyo on Wednesday confirmed a record 1,591 new daily COVID-19 infections, with the record number of cases coming just days ahead of a state of emergency likely being declared for Tokyo and three surrounding prefectures due to a surging "third wave" of infections.

A study by Chinese researchers has found that the novel coronavirus has much weaker infectivity at high body temperatures, which suggests fever may significantly improve COVID-19 progression and prognosis, Science and Technology Daily reported.

Shijiazhuang in North China's Hebei province has suspended major transport links outside city to lower the risk of virus spread, as confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city continued to surge.

China's Hebei Province reported 20 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 43 asymptomatic cases on Tuesday, the provincial health commission said Wednesday.

Shanghai residents who need to travel abroad for personal reasons will be able to make appointments for COVID-19 vaccinations starting from Thursday, the municipal government announced on Wednesday.

China's National Health Commission said Wednesday that it received reports of 32 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Tuesday, of which 23 were locally transmitted and nine were imported.

Xiaoguozhuang, a village in Shijiazhuang was designated as a high-risk area for COVID-19 on Tuesday, the only such designation on the Chinese mainland, as the province adopted stricter measures to control the virus, including mass testing and suspending classes.

The head of the World Health Organization stressed that the novel coronavirus is still a major public health crisis and it is "a race to save lives, livelihoods and end this pandemic".

The number of COVID-19 infections in the United States may have been about four times of the figure officially reported, according to a new study published on Tuesday.

The United States has confirmed infections of the COVID-19 variant in four states, as the vaccine rollout nationwide lags behind schedule.

The imported COVID-19 case from the UK reported in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, is highly homologous with the recent strain of the novel coronavirus variant in the UK, according to a report published on Tuesday on the official WeChat account of the Health Commission of Shandong Province.

India's health ministry said on Tuesday that 20 new cases of the mutant COVID-19 strain have been traced in the country, taking the tally of such cases to 58.

BGI Genomics, a Shenzhen-based biotech company, on Tuesday announced the successful development of a rapid detection kit for the new strain of the novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7, which was originally discovered in the UK.

Key groups with higher risks of infection, including frontline medical workers, customs inspectors of imported cold-chain goods and personnel working in the overseas and domestic transportation sector, began to receive their first COVID-19 vaccine doses in Jiangxi Province.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has moved to facilitate corporate cooperation along industrial chains to accelerate the industrialization of COVID-19 vaccines and expand production capacity to ensure the supply of vaccines, an official said Tuesday.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has reassured the world that China would fulfill its commitment on ensuring accessibility and affordability of vaccines in developing countries as a global public good.

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 10,356,844 on Tuesday as 16,375 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, said the latest data from the federal health ministry.

A medical expert has warned that the surging COVID-19 hospitalization has put the healthcare system in the United States at real crisis, Cable News Network (CNN) reported.

Beijing on Monday announced it would quarantine international arrivals in the closed-loop management mode if they enter China in less than 21 days from other domestic ports.

China's National Health Commission said Tuesday that it received reports of 33 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Monday, of which 17 were locally transmitted and 16 were imported.

The Chinese mainland reported 16 new imported COVID-19 cases Monday, bringing the total number of imported cases to 4,339.

Spain's Ministry of Health on Monday reported 30,579 new coronavirus cases and 241 deaths during the New Year period between Dec. 31 and Jan. 4.

The main indicators tied to the coronavirus outbreak in Italy so far in 2021 remained below peaks recorded in late November and early December, as the country's national holiday lockdown drew to a close. But health experts warned it was still too early to know how effective the restrictions put in place for the holidays would prove to be.

Production lines for a newly approved COVID-19 vaccine developed by State-owned Sinopharm Group were running at full throttle on Monday as more than a dozen vaccine manufacturers in China gear up to ensure a smooth and sufficient rollout of doses.

China urges the United States to stop interfering with China's internal affairs and judicial sovereignty on Hong Kong-related issues, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Monday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday that England will enter a national lockdown from midnight, the third of its kind since the coronavirus pandemic began in the country.