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President Xi Jinping says China stands ready to work with Sri Lanka to boost bilateral cooperation and support the South Asian country's post-pandemic economic recovery.
He made the remarks in a phone conversation with his Sri Lankan counterpart.
The Chinese president calls on both sides to steadily push forward major projects and to promote high-quality collaboration in jointly building the Belt and Road.
He says China will continue to provide assistance to Sri Lanka's fight against COVID-19 and advance cooperation in fields including aviation and education.
China and Oman have agreed to enhance cooperation and further develop bilateral relations.
This comes after visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Hamad al-Busaidi.
Wang says China aims to boost its cooperation with Oman in various fields including energy, investment, fisheries and the high-tech industry.
Chinese authorities have refuted accusations by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding the upcoming final report from the World Health Organization on the work of tracing the origin of COVID-19 in China.
Blinken expressed concern over the report, claiming that China was helping to write it.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian says the country will never accept such accusations on issues regarding the pandemic.
"As we have said many times, China was the first to report the pandemic to the WHO, the first to release key information such as the gene sequence of the novel coronavirus, and the first to release diagnosis, treatment and prevention and control plans."
Zhao says the WHO-China joint exert team visited nine locations during their research trip and had exchanges with medical staff and recovered patients, and that those arrangements were all made at the request of the joint mission.
Mobile vaccine buses have been launched in New York to address vaccine accessibility issues in communities in most need of help.
New York City Health and Hospitals has teamed up with community organizations throughout the city to launch the program.
The mobile vaccine buses come as New York is set to start offering vaccines to people 16 and older starting from April 6th.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged the public to continue to exercise caution as England further eases coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
He says it's still unclear how far the vaccine rollout would protect the U.K. against a new wave of infections.
The U.K. has suffered Europe's deadliest outbreak, with more than 126,000 coronavirus-related deaths, but new cases and deaths are currently at their lowest levels in around six months.
Sergio Aguero has confirmed on social media that he will leave Manchester City at the end of the season after 10 years at the club.
Aguero's announcement came after City's decision to not offer the striker a new contract.
The 32-year-old has a club-record 257 goals for City since joining from Atletico Madrid in 2011.
Chinese TV series Word of Honor has been gaining in popularity among foreign viewers since its release overseas in late February.
The drama has garnered 50 million views in total since it began streaming on YouTube on February 23.
The first episode has already surpassed 5.6 million views on the platform.
