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Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's non-manufacturing sector came in at 51.4 in February, down from 52.4 of January, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Sunday. A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while a reading below it reflects contraction. In February, the sub-index for business activities in the services sector stood at 50.8, dropping from 51.1 in January. This indicated China's services sector continued to expand, yet at a slower pace, said Zhao Qinghe, senior statistician at NBS, while analyzing the February reading. In breakdown, consumption-related segments such as retail sales, catering and entertainment logged increases in business activities, Zhao said. The sub-indexes for business activities in telecommunications and satellite transmission as well as financial services came in at above 58, indicating steady growth of business volume in these areas, according to Zhao. Sunday's data ... » Learn More about China’s non-manufacturing PMI falls in February

LUCKNOW: A total of three returnees from the United Kingdom, who arrived in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut recently, tested positive for COVID-19. Reports stated that all the three passengers, members of the same family, returned from London on December 14. All three returnees are feared to be carrying the new strain of coronavirus, said a source. Meanwhile, Health Department officials also fear that the three foreign returnees may be infected by the new variant of the virus that was detected in the UK. On December 25, 63 new positive cases of Coronavirus was reported in Meerut alone, taking its total tally to 20,402. The death toll due to coronavirus in the city stands at 390 whereas the active cases is 1201, confirmed CMO. Also Read: Coronavirus impact: WHO lists out global health issues for 2021, check details Last week, a new strain of the coronavirus was first detected in the UK. As per the experts, this strain is more transmissible than other SARS-CoV-2 variants. ... » Learn More about Meerut family with UK travel history tests COVID positive, suspected to be carrying new UK variant

The US is getting a third vaccine to prevent Covid-19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two. Health experts are anxiously awaiting a one-and-done option to help speed vaccinations, as they race against a virus that already has killed more than 510,000 people in the US and is mutating in increasingly worrisome ways. The FDA said J&J's vaccine offers strong protection against what matters most: serious illness, hospitalizations and death. One dose was 85% protective against the most severe Covid-19 illness, in a massive study that spanned three continents - protection that remained strong even in countries such as South Africa, where the variants of most concern are spreading. "The more vaccines that have high efficacy that we can get into play, the better," Dr. Anthony Fauci , the top US infectious disease expert, said ahead of the FDA's ruling. Shipments of a few million ... » Learn More about J&J’s 1-dose shot cleared, giving US 3rd Covid-19 vaccine