New Omicron subvariant BA.5.2.1 found in ShanghaiThe case, found in the financial district of Pudong on July 8, was linked with a case from overseas, said Zhao Dandan, vice-director of the...
10 Jul, 2022, 04.27 PM IST
'Tomorrow will be better': Shanghai inches towards COVID re-openingShanghai aims essentially to end its lockdown from Wednesday. More people have been allowed out of their homes and more businesses permitte...
28 May, 2022, 11.33 AM IST
With surge in fresh infections, China logs 319 new local Covid 19 casesMeanwhile, as the COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread in more and more cities in China, questions are mounting over the country's much-pu...
08 May, 2022, 09.28 AM IST
Xi Jinping warns people for questioning China's zero-COVID policyAs severe, regular lockdowns stoke public anger and hit the Chinese economy, China's top leader Xi Jinping has issued the harshest warning ...
06 May, 2022, 09.14 PM IST
Beijing curbs public transport as COVID spreads in ChinaThe central city of Zhengzhou, home to 12.6 million people and a factory of Apple's iPhone manufacturer Foxconn, joins dozens of big cities...
04 May, 2022, 09.55 AM IST
Shanghai authorities stepped up to help Tesla reopen factory, letter showsIn its letter, Tesla thanked Lingang officials for their support, and described how a company run by the Lingang Group had arranged buses t...
03 May, 2022, 06.01 PM IST
China reports 368 new local COVID-19 cases, 20 deathsOf the new local case, 274 were reported in Shanghai, 51 in Beijing and the rest of the cases were reported in 11 other provincial-level re...
03 May, 2022, 11.32 AM IST
Beijing orders COVID-19 tests for its 21 million people; Shanghai reports 52 more deathsThe Chinese capital, which is battling the spread of the Omicron variant in the city, similar to Shanghai, has ordered mass testing from Tu...
26 Apr, 2022, 10.18 AM IST
Shanghai urges cooperation with COVID tests amid rising scepticismResidents shared stories on social media about busloads of people being taken from their homes and sent into quarantine, including babies a...
19 Apr, 2022, 05.32 PM IST
Tesla, others prepare Shanghai factory restarts as city aims to ease lockdownTesla has recalled workers to its factory to prepare for the restart, two sources told Reuters. They added that while the U.S. automaker ha...
18 Apr, 2022, 10.46 AM IST
China says family infections among reasons responsible for Shanghai COVID spreadShanghai registered 2,573 locally transmitted confirmed infections and 25,146 asymptomatic carriers on Wednesday amid the continuing lockdo...
15 Apr, 2022, 12.20 PM IST
Eat only one meal a day: Shanghai's stringent COVID lockdown puts megacity out of foodOn April 3, the Chinese government announced the deployment of thousands of military personnel to Shanghai to assist in the mandatory testi...
12 Apr, 2022, 05.54 PM IST
Bosch halts production at two China plants due to COVID-19 curbsTwo other auto parts plants in Shanghai and neighbouring Taicang city are maintaining "closed-loop" operations, in which workers sleep, liv...
12 Apr, 2022, 02.05 PM IST
Shanghai becomes new COVID-19 epicentre with record cases for 6th consecutive dayThe Chinese mainland reported 1,284 new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases, including 322 in Shanghai, on Wednesday, China's National Healt...
07 Apr, 2022, 09.01 PM IST
China reports 1,787 new local COVID-19 cases in past 24 hoursOf the new local infections, 1,363 were reported in Jilin, 358 in Shanghai, 16 in Heilongjiang, 10 in Zhejiang, and nine in Jiangsu, accord...
01 Apr, 2022, 11.25 AM IST
Much of Shanghai locked down as mass COVID-19 testing beginsChina's financial capital with 26 million people, Shanghai had managed its smaller, past outbreaks with limited lockdowns of housing compou...
28 Mar, 2022, 10.17 AM IST
Shanghai warns against 'panic' as Covid cases mountShanghai authorities on Wednesday called for calm as worried citizens swamped online grocery platforms to stock up on food over fears of im...
23 Mar, 2022, 01.40 PM IST