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Restaurants and eateries in China's largest city Shanghai begun reopening their doors to diners on Wednesday, bringing widespread relief to an industry that was badly hit by the city's two month COVID-19 lockdown.

Chinese president Xi Jinping said the ruling Communist Party's strategy to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic was "correct and effective" and should be firmly adhered to, the official news agency, Xinhua, said on Wednesday.

Active cases comprise 0.23 per cent of the total infections

With 14,506 new COVID infections in the last 24 hours, India's total tally of such cases rose to 4,34,33, 345, and that of the active cases to 99,602, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. Full story on Dynamite News:

Blockbusters like Top Gun: Maverick and government stimulus measures are helping movie theatres bounce back from the nightmare of COVID-19, owners say. Market research, meanwhile, suggests that this year at the movies could be one for the books.

COVID restrictions have eased and lockdowns have lifted, but an Adelaide epidemiologist is wary of talk of a "post-COVID" world, especially at a time when reinfections are on the rise.

VISAKHAPATNAM: With just two days to go for the Rath Yatra being organised by the Sri Jagannath Swamy temple, temples in Vizag city and surrounding districts are gearing up to conduct the yatra in a grand manner. After muted celebrations in the past two years due to Covid-19 pandemic, this…

Rafael Nadal on Tuesday clarified that he did not have any health concerns in the wake of Italy's Matteo Berrettini, with whom he had practised on Thursday, testing positive for Covid-19.

The state opposition takes aim at the West Australian government in the wake of Michelle Fyfe's resignation, saying it used St John WA as a "scapegoat" to distract from its own failure to address issues in the hospital system.