Shanghai hospital readies for ‘tragic battle’ with Covid
A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” with COVID-19 as it expects half of the city’s 25 million people to get infected by the ...
First foreign COVID vaccines head to China from Germany
erlin has sent its first batch of BioNTech 22UAy.DE COVID-19 vaccines to China to be administered initially to German expatriates, a German government spokesperson said on Wednesday, the first ...
Hearses queue at Beijing crematorium, even as China reports no new COVID deaths
Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as China reported no new COVID-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking criticism of its virus accounting as the ...
China races to install hospital beds as COVID surge sparks concern abroad
Cities across China scrambled to install hospital beds and build fever screening clinics on Tuesday as the United States said Beijing’s surprise decision to let the virus run free ...
China officially reports first Covid deaths in weeks as virus wave swells
China officially reported on Monday its first COVID-related deaths since the government began dismantling strict anti-virus controls earlier this month, feeding anxiety that this could be the start of a ...
State Department launches ‘China House’ amid rivalry with Beijing
The U.S. State Department on Friday launched its long-planned “China House” unit, an internal reorganization to help expand and sharpen its policymaking toward its top geopolitical rival.
Secretary of ...
China urges vaccines for vulnerable as ‘zero-COVID’ exit turns messy
China raced to vaccinate its most vulnerable people on Thursday in anticipation of waves of COVID-19 infections, with some analysts expecting the death toll to soar after a loosening of ...
‘Tough times’: Warnings sound over China’s rapid ‘zero-Covid’ exit
A week after China began dismantling its tough ‘zero-COVID’ controls, the World Health Organization warned of “very tough” times ahead and state media reported some seriously ill patients at hospitals ...
Five Chinese citizens badly injured in Kabul attack, businessman says
Over a dozen Chinese citizens were wounded, five of them seriously, in a gun and bomb attack on a hotel in downtown Kabul, a Chinese businessman in the Afghan capital ...
‘Please protect yourself’: China wrestles with Covid surge
People queued outside fever clinics at China’s hospitals for COVID-19 checks on Monday, a new sign of the rapid spread of symptoms after authorities began dismantling stringent measures against ...
China’s capital swings from anger over zero-Covid to coping with infections
Beijing’s COVID-19 gloom deepened on Sunday with many shops and other businesses closed, and an expert warned of many thousands of new coronavirus cases as anger over China’s ...
China’s Xi calls for oil trade in yuan at Gulf summit in Riyadh
President Xi Jinping told Gulf Arab leaders on Friday that China would work to buy oil and gas in yuan, a move that would support Beijing’s goal to establish ...
‘It’s dead out here’: China’s slow exit from zero-Covid
Judging by Friday’s quiet streets in China’s capital Beijing and the reluctance of some businesses to drop COVID curbs, enduring anxieties about the coronavirus are likely to hamper ...
Quiet streets, cautious firms signal China’s slow exit from zero-Covid
Judging by Friday’s quiet streets in the heart of China’s capital and city eateries adherence to virus curbs, the anxieties created by the ‘zero-COVID’ regime could hinder the ...
‘Too many positives!’: As China rows back ‘zero-COVID’ policy, virus fears spread
As many Chinese embraced new found freedoms on Thursday after the country dropped key parts of its tough zero-COVID regime, some cities warned residents to maintain vigilance against a virus ...
‘We’re going to be free’: Chinese cheer as COVID curbs are loosened
China on Wednesday announced the most sweeping changes to its resolute anti-COVID regime since the pandemic began three years ago, loosening rules that curbed the spread of the virus but ...
Chinese capital prepares for ‘life again’ as lockdowns lift across country
China’s capital Beijing dropped the need for people to show negative COVID tests to enter supermarkets and offices on Tuesday, the latest in an easing of curbs across the ...
Covid confusion in China as authorities row back curbs
A patchwork easing of the world’s toughest COVID-19 curbs sowed confusion across China on Monday, spurring hopes for more clarity as officials shift tone on the dangers posed by ...
Beijing, Shenzhen loosen more Covid curbs as China fine-tunes policy
Beijing residents on Saturday cheered the removal of COVID-19 testing booths while Shenzhen said it would no longer require commuters to present test results to travel, as an easing of ...
Chinese cities ease Covid curbs as virus keeps spreading
Some communities in Chinese cities where COVID-19 is still spreading are easing off on testing requirements and quarantine rules ahead of an expected shift in virus policies nationwide after widespread ...
Russia’s Lavrov accuses NATO of fanning tensions in South China Sea
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday accused NATO of whipping up tensions near China in a way that posed risks for Russia.
“The South China Sea is now becoming ...
China set to loosen COVID curbs after week of historic protests
China is set to announce an easing of its COVID-19 quarantine protocolsin the coming days and a reduction in mass testing, sources told Reuters, a marked shift in policy after ...
Protests escalate in Guangzhou as China lockdown anger boils
People in the Chinese manufacturing hub of Guangzhou clashed with white hazmat-suited riot police on Tuesday night, videos on social media showed, as frustration with stringent COVID-19 rules boiled over, ...
China begins inquiries into weekend Covid protests
Chinese authorities have begun inquiries into some of the people who gathered at weekend protests against COVID-19 curbs, three people who were at the Beijing demonstrations told Reuters, as police ...