In Shanghai, lockdown blues make way for Covid testing gripesDespite the deep discontent sparked by Shanghai's stringent curbs - some 2.5 million in the city are still under lockdown - China has vowed...
02 Jun, 2022, 12.03 PM 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
Goldman Sachs cuts China’s growth forecast to 4% on Covid policyThe investment bank lowered its projection for gross domestic product growth from 4.5% previously, and also cut the second-quarter estimate...
19 May, 2022, 12.29 AM IST
Normal life is weeks away for Shanghai, despite 'zero COVID' statusUS-HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-Normal life is weeks away for Shanghai, despite 'zero COVID' status
17 May, 2022, 10.48 AM IST
Shanghai 'shuts' half of its make-shift hospitals amid sharp decline in COVID-19 infectionsThe patients treated at makeshift hospitals in Shanghai have dropped to about 50,000, one-fifth of the peak number when the epidemic was at...
15 May, 2022, 10.25 AM 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
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
As Beijing Covid outbreak proves stubborn, mass tests becoming routineMost of the 25 million people in the commercial hub of Shanghai, China's most populous city, had been confined to their housing compounds f...
08 May, 2022, 08.58 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
China's 'zero-COVID' restrictions curb May 1 holiday travelMany Chinese marked a quiet May Day this year as the government's "zero-COVID" approach restricts travel and enforces lockdowns in multiple...
01 May, 2022, 06.52 PM IST
Shanghai residents scream from windows as China's COVID lockdown prevents them from leaving home for foodIn a clip posted online by a Twitter user that he said was taken by the father of his close friend who reported that "people (are) screamin...
12 Apr, 2022, 09.56 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
US warns of 'arbitrary' Covid measures in ChinaUntil March, China had kept cases low with snap lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions, but more than 100,000 cases have been repo...
09 Apr, 2022, 07.00 PM IST
Shanghai lockdown snarls world's busiest port and China supply chainsShortages are starting to bite across China's vast consumer economy, where online shopping platforms such as Taobao face delivery delays, e...
08 Apr, 2022, 12.21 PM IST
Surge in cases in Shanghai is testing China’s ‘zero COVID’ strategyThe outbreak has fanned a rising debate in China over whether the government should rethink its stringent “zero COVID” strategy of eliminat...
25 Mar, 2022, 07.05 PM IST
COVID-19 situation in China continues to heat upResidents of Xinchang Town, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, escape from the containment zone to buy vegetables, reported the local media.
22 Mar, 2022, 09.03 PM IST
China holds the line on 'Zero COVID,' but some wonder for how longChina, which has largely kept the coronavirus at bay since 2020, is going to ever more extreme lengths to quell outbreaks that have prolife...
21 Jan, 2022, 08.00 PM IST