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World Coronavirus Dispatch: How Wuhan remembers its outbreak one year on

US falls short on vaccination goals, Vienna's classic New Year concert plays on despite curbs, China sets up infection prevention squad and other-pandemic related news across the globe

Medical staff at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on Jan. 25. Photographer: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images
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Medical staff at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on Jan. 25. Photographer: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

Akash Podishetty Hyderabad
China sets up infection prevention squad in hospitals 

China has constituted a team of experts to help prevent infections in hospitals across the country. The team will monitor public events, advise on prevention of infections in hospitals among others. Infections in hospitals have been responsible for sporadic virus clusters in the country. Beijing has advised people to stay put as infections rose in recent days. China is also planning a powerful new disease control agency as part of public health reforms in the aftermath of the pandemic. Read here

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