Welcome to Morning News. It is May 12, Wednesday. 25-34℃, sunny.

China 

1. A passenger at Train D3344 (No. 01C seat at Carriage 9) from Shenzhen North Railway Station to Pingtan county in Fujian province on May 1 was identified as an asymptomatic carrier of COVID-19. The train had passed stations like Shenzhen Pingshan, Huizhou South, Shanwei, Puning, Chaoyang and Chaoshan in Guangdong province (深圳坪山、惠州南、汕尾、普宁、潮阳、潮汕等).

2. Guangzhou Metro today joins hands with its Beijing counterpart to mutually recognize payment via QR codes of their respective app following its cooperation with Shanghai and Chongqing.

3. Guangdong recorded an average temperature of 26℃ during the past ten days, 1.5℃ higher than that in the same period of normal years (24.5℃), according to the provincial meteorological authority.

4. 40% of targeted people aged between 18 and 59 have received COVID-19 vaccination in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan and Dongguan.

5. People living in more-developed East China make up 39.93 percent of the total mainland population, up 2.15 percentage points compared with 2010, according to data of the seventh national census released on Tuesday.

6. The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 16 new COVID-19 cases, all imported, including 8 in Guangdong.

7. Hong Kong's civil servants will soon do temporary stints in the Guangdong provincial and Shenzhen municipal government departments, according to the special administrative region's government.

8. Ruili, a border city in Southwest China's Yunnan province, said yesterday that citizens holding a negative virus test result within 7 days, a green health code and valid ID cards can leave the city. The city cleared areas with medium, high COVID-19 risks on May 4.

World

1. Nepal on Tuesday reported over 200 deaths from COVID-19 for the first time, which has led to the extension of the lockdown in the Kathmandu Valley and the suspension of international flight till later this month.

2. England's COVID-19 app will become a vaccine passport for those who have received two doses of a vaccine, and the contact-tracing app will come into effect on May 17.

3. The EU executive is suing British-Swedish pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca to force it to deliver 90 million more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine before July.

4. Slovakia on Tuesday suspended first doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine after earlier signaling it was investigating the case of a vaccinated patient who died from a blood clot.

5. Belgium will relax coronavirus lockdown measures on June 9 after a gradual "summer plan", which will depend on the progress of the vaccination campaign and provided the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units remains under 500.

6. The World Health Organization said Wednesday that a variant of Covid-19 behind the acceleration of India's explosive outbreak has been found in dozens of countries all over the world.

Editor: Becky

Sources: Xinhua; China Daily; CGTN