DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous  China always supports the people of the Middle East in independently exploring a development path and supports the Middle East countries in solving regional security On January 15, 2023 local time, when jointly meeting the press with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo, Foreign Minister Qin Gang said that in recent years, the countries and people of the Middle East have constantly strengthened themselves through unity, strived to advance development and revitalization, actively advocated inter-civilization exchanges, and stayed committed to defending fairness and justice, and serve as an important force in a multi-polar world. On the other hand, the Middle East situation is still faced with prominent uncertainties and instability. Regional hotspot issues keep emerging and turbulence are in some countries. External interference remains an important factor undermining regional security and stability and affecting enduring peace and security ...

  Daily Rendezvous Update on COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance in view of the Rising Cases of COVID-19 in Hotspot Countries. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) is the national public health institute with  the mandate to lead the preparedness, detection, and response to public health emergencies. Consequently,  we continue to monitor global COVID-19 epidemiology including genomics data as part of the ongoing pandemic response. The NCDC-led COVID-19 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) is monitoring COVID-19 trends in  China, the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), South Africa, India, and other  countries with a high volume of traffic to and from Nigeria. This includes the resurgence of COVID-19 in China following the relaxation of the country’s zero-COVID policy, as well as significantly increased  COVID-19 cases, admissions, and deaths in the UK and the USA over the past weeks driven in part by the ...