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State Council highlights key health issues
2023-08-29
China will roll out a raft of stronger supportive policies to boost the development of the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industries, as part of the country's efforts to strengthen areas of weakness and enhance market competitiveness, the State Council, or China's Cabinet, said on Friday.
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China releases five-year plan for enhanced birth defect prevention
2023-08-29
China's National Health Commission has released a five-year plan aimed at more efficient prevention and control of birth defects and reducing the incidence of birth defect-related fatalities and disabilities.
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TCM infrastructure gets $2.6b boost
2023-08-25
China has invested central funds worth 19 billion ($2.6 billion) into building traditional Chinese medicine infrastructure during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), a health official said on Thursday.
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EG.5 most prominent substrain of COVID-19
2023-08-23
The EG.5 substrain of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has become the most prominent source of coronavirus infections in China, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday.
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Health awareness of Chinese continues to improve: NHC
2023-08-23
The health awareness level of the Chinese people was 27.78 percent in 2022, 2.38 percentage points higher than the previous year, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Monday.
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Don't worry about third wave of COVID, experts say
2023-08-14
Despite rising numbers of people on social media claiming to have been infected with COVID-19 for a third time recently, experts have said that those reinfected most likely only had mild symptoms.
