20210824 China News
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Central China's Henan Province, once hit hard by torrential rains in July, issued the highest alert for rainstorms twice at 1:20 p.m. and 4:55 p.m. on Sunday, the provincial weather bureau said.



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Beijing has been cleared of medium and high-risk areas for COVID-19 with the last medium-risk area being downgraded to low-risk on Monday. The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in an announcement that a residential community at Yancun Township in the district of Fangshan was downgraded to a low-risk area.



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Beijing has been cleared of medium and high-risk areas for COVID-19 with the last medium-risk area being downgraded to low-risk on Monday. The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in an announcement that a residential community at Yancun Township in the district of Fangshan was downgraded to a low-risk area.


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Chinese e-comics platform Kuaikan announced on Monday that it has raised $240 million in a new funding round which will help accelerate its development and efforts to explore international markets.


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Tencent Holdings Ltd announced a plan to double its fund for social charitable causes in a bid to help promote "common prosperity" in China.The internet giant is investing an additional 50 billion yuan ($7.7 billion) on supporting everything from rural revitalization, enhancing efficiency of the rural economy, increasing incomes for low-income people, funding inclusive education programs and other measures to enhance social fairness, the company said on Thursday though its official WeChat channel.


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All people involved in locally transmitted COVID-19 cases reported on Friday and Saturday have so far tested negative twice, said Shanghai's health authorities on Monday.A total of 143 close contacts of the five patients, who were confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19 on Friday and Saturday, have been quarantined at designated places in the city and tested twice.


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Inactivated COVID-19 vaccines developed by China curbed the spread of the Delta variant during a May outbreak in Guangzhou city in south China, a study has shown.Led by reputed Chinese epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan, researchers from the Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that two shots of the vaccines provided an efficacy of 59 percent against COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant, 70.2 percent against moderate form of the disease, and 100 percent against severe cases.


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