Air China resumes Delhi-Beijing non-stop flightAir connectivity between India and China is being restored. Air China and China Eastern Airlines have resumed flights connecting Delhi and ...
22 Apr, 2026, 06.59 PM IST
Shanghai Covid curbs drag on despite officials declaring victoryAnother compound in the central Jing'an district had its gates chained shut on Wednesday night, after a confrontation between residents and...
02 Jun, 2022, 02.49 PM IST
Shanghai says all residents in 'low-risk' areas can return to work on June 1Railways will also resume normal operations and the number of domestic flights to the city will increase, vice mayor Zong Ming told an onli...
31 May, 2022, 08.14 AM 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
Shanghai finds cases after five days of 'zero COVID' but end of lockdown on trackThe commercial hub of 25 million found three new cases in the same family in Qingpu district. All had taken three doses of vaccine and thei...
20 May, 2022, 01.26 PM IST
Shanghai to reopen subways in easing of COVID restrictionsIt wasn't immediately clear how frequent the service would be. Bus service resumed on a trial basis within three outlying districts this we...
19 May, 2022, 12.12 PM IST
Covid-19: Some Shanghai businesses to reopen Monday, officials sayThe city's Vice Mayor Chen Tong said at a daily press briefing that grocery stores, malls, convenience stores and pharmacies will be allowe...
15 May, 2022, 12.05 PM IST
Shanghai disinfects homes, closes all subways in COVID fightCity official Jin Chen said Tuesday that in older communities with shared bathrooms and kitchens, the homes of anyone else who uses those f...
10 May, 2022, 03.04 PM IST
Setback for Shanghai's COVID battle; Beijing focusses on mass testingShanghai residents breathed a sigh of relief at the weekend on news that no cases had been confirmed outside quarantine areas for two days,...
02 May, 2022, 11.58 AM IST
COVID-hit Beijing increases curbs, fears Shanghai-like miseryAs Beijing rolled out three rounds of mass testing this week across a number of districts, it locked down a number of residential compounds...
28 Apr, 2022, 10.47 AM IST
Shanghai fences up COVID-hit buildings, fuelling fresh outcryImages of white hazmat suit-clad workers sealing entrances of housing blocks and even closing off entire streets with roughly two metre-tal...
24 Apr, 2022, 12.17 PM IST
China: Locked-down Shanghai residents barter for what money can’t buyAvailability of many goods in Shanghai has been strained by clogged logistics into the city and the lack of couriers to deliver supplies to...
15 Apr, 2022, 12.39 AM 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
Shanghai official says handling of COVID outbreak below expectations as lockdown continuesIn Shanghai, where 26 million people are in lockdown, residents have continued to complain about food shortages due to a lack of couriers a...
09 Apr, 2022, 12.58 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
Shanghai COVID curbs prompt half of U.S. firms to cut revenue forecasts: SurveyMore than half, or 54%, have cut 2022 revenue projections following the outbreak, though 38% said it was too early to estimate the impact.
01 Apr, 2022, 10.47 AM IST
Why are Shanghai's COVID infections nearly all asymptomatic?Although outbreaks overseas have demonstrated that Omicron was less deadly than its predecessors, with lower levels of hospitalisation, the...
30 Mar, 2022, 10.42 AM IST