China COVID Lockdown: Vice-premier signals minor relaxation in COVID policy after violent protests in GuangzhouDespite daily high case counts, China has signaled a change in its Covid stance by moving to ease restrictions after violent protests in Gu...
China signals zero-Covid relaxation after protestsAnger over China's zero-Covid policy -- which involves mass lockdowns, constant testing and quarantines even for people who are not infecte...
Beijing shuts parks, museums as China's COVID-19 cases riseChina reported 28,127 new local cases nationally for Monday, nearing its daily peak from April, with infections in the southern city of Gua...
Beijing launches probe into bar blamed for capital's COVID surgeAll the city's bars, nightclubs, karaoke venues, internet cafes and other places of entertainment are being inspected, the paper said, with...
Tech, industrial stocks pull China shares lower as Beijing imposes new COVID curbsThe blue-chip CSI300 index was down 2.34%, its biggest drop since May 6, with its financial sector sub-index lower by 1.49%, the consumer s...
Shanghai extends Covid 19 lockdown till April 26 as death toll rises to 36Shanghai has extended a standstill order throughout the city till April 26, tightening its stranglehold on a lockdown which is entering its...
Shanghai hospital pays the price for China's COVID-19 responseThe conditions and deaths at the hospital are a sharp rebuke against China's strategy of sticking to a zero-COVID policy as it deals with t...
Shanghai lockdown deepens after new surge in asymptomatic casesThe lockdown was originally set to end on Tuesday in the city's western districts, but has now been extended until further notice.
China finds new virus subtype, daily cases top 13,000The new iteration of the virus, isolated from a mild Covid-19 patient in a city less than 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Shanghai, evolves f...
China reports 13,000 Covid cases, most since end of Wuhan's first waveThe highly transmissible Omicron variant has spread to more than a dozen provinces, rattling China's "zero-Covid" strategy which had until ...
COVID-19 cases rise in Shanghai with millions under lockdownShanghai with its 26 million people last week began a two-stage lockdown, with residents of the eastern Pudong section supposed to be allow...
China daily local COVID cases hit two-year highChina's current case count is far fewer than those of many other countries, but the growing number could complicate Beijing's "dynamic-clea...
Beijing on alert after COVID-19 spike in neighbouring province; 9 mn vaccinated in ChinaBeijing has gone on an alert mode following a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in the neighbouring Hebei province while China has administere...
China prepares large-scale rollout of COVID-19 vaccinesDevelopers are speeding up final testing, the Chinese foreign minister said Thursday during a U.N. meeting, as Britain issued approval for ...
Top Chinese leadership delayed response to pandemic: ReportPresident Xi Jinping warned the Chinese citizens on January 20 - the seventh day - but by then, more than 3,000 people had been infected, a...
China unveils brand new cabinet to run revamped govt under XiXi was re-elected last week for a second five-year term, days after the NPC ratified constitutional amendment, removing term limits for Pre...
- China's ruling Communist Party remains an all-men club
The Standing Committee was shrunk from nine to seven members, which some party leaders say was aimed at improving the coordination of the c...