MYSTERIOUS: 9 | Mind Blowing Facts

Brennan named new director for National Hurricane Center

The new director of the National Hurricane Center is a man with plenty of experience calling big storms

The Independent UK · Apr 10, 2023

Hurricane Ian Reached Category 5 Status Over Gulf, NHC Post-storm Study Finds

Hurricane Ian was the storm that defined the 2022 hurricane season with Florida still grappling with the aftermath

Zenger · Apr 5, 2023

Hurricane Ian hit Cat 5 in Gulf, was officially Florida’s most expensive storm

MIAMI — Hurricane Ian is officially the most expensive storm in Florida’s history, with a price tag of $109 billion in damage.

Miami Herald · Apr 3, 2023

Saudi Housing Ministry Launches Kingdom’s First Metaverse Platform

The Ministry of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing announced the launching of Sakani Metaverse, the first platform of its kind in the Kingdom, in a step that aims at exploiting the interactive technology to raise the quality of life. The announcement came during the ministry’s participation in the LEAP 2023…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 11, 2023

China urged to provide more data on COVID infections

China’s announcement that it had almost 60,000 COVID-related deaths in a month has spurred new calls for the government to provide more data about the wave of infections that is sweeping the country.

Tribune News Service · Jan 15, 2023

China Drops Covid Curbs on International Flights

Civil aviation regulator confirms government plan to scrap all pandemic limits as of Jan. 8, including quarantines, testing and capacity caps

Caixin Global · Dec 28, 2022

China stops releasing daily COVID data as accuracy questioned

China’s National Health Commission will stop publishing daily COVID-19 case numbers, after the accuracy of its data was questioned as millions were infected nationwide and the official tally remained strikingly low.

Tribune News Service · Dec 25, 2022

China to stop publishing daily COVID figures of cases, deaths

The decision by the NHC to scrap the daily virus count comes as COVID cases surge across multiple Chinese cities.

Al Jazeera · Dec 25, 2022

China’s Zhejiang Has 1 Mln Daily COVID Cases, Expected to Double

China's Zhejiang, a big industrial province near Shanghai, is battling around a million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead, the provincial government said on Sunday. Despite a record surge of cases nationwide, China reported no COVID deaths on the mainland for the five…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 25, 2022

China records first Covid death in weeks as experts question official infection figures

Officially China has reported just 5,237 Covid-related deaths

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2022