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Attention air travellers! China to resume issuing passports, visas as Covid-related curbs ease

China stopped issuing visas to foreigners and passports to its own people at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. The National Immigration Administration of China said it will start taking applications from January 8 for passports for tourists to go abroad. It said it will resume issuing approval for tourists and businesspeople to visit Hong Kong, a Chinese territory with its own border controls.

Dec 28, 2022, 13:50 PM IST

COVID-19: AIIMS panel gives nod for human trial of indigenous vaccine

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Ethics Committee on Saturday gave its approval for conducting the human clinical trial of the indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin.

Jul 19, 2020, 20:00 PM IST