92% population in Beijing to get Covid by January end: StudyNearly 76 per cent of people in Beijing had contracted Covid-19 as of December 22. It was expected to reach 92 per cent by January 31, acco...
24 Jan, 2023, 10.54 AM IST
In China, doctors say they are discouraged from citing COVID on death certificatesSix doctors at public hospitals across China told Reuters they had either received similar oral instructions discouraging them from attribu...
17 Jan, 2023, 02.37 PM IST
China reports 60,000 COVID-related deaths, says peak passedChina's health authorities on Saturday reported almost 60,000 Covid-related deaths in just over a month, the first major death toll release...
15 Jan, 2023, 08.39 AM IST
China defends its COVID response after WHO, Biden concernsThe WHO's emergencies director, Mike Ryan, said on Wednesday in some of the U.N. health agency's most critical remarks to date, that Chines...
05 Jan, 2023, 04.00 PM IST
WHO says China data underrepresents COVID surge and deathsThe U.N. agency was preparing to meet Chinese scientists again on Thursday as part of a wider briefing among member states on the global CO...
04 Jan, 2023, 10.34 PM IST
China urges 'final victory' over COVID as global concern mounts over spreadChina's axing of its stringent anti-virus controls last month has unleashed COVID on a 1.4 billion population that has little natural immun...
04 Jan, 2023, 11.00 AM IST
China insists official Covid data is transparentWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier urged China to be more forthcoming on the pandemic and said it was "understandable" that some ...
31 Dec, 2022, 12.44 AM IST
China is likely seeing 1 million Covid cases, 5,000 deaths a dayThe situation could get even worse for the country of 1.4 billion people. This current wave may see the daily case rate rise to 3.7 million...
22 Dec, 2022, 05.22 PM IST
China limits how it defines Covid 19 deaths in the official countThe clarification of how China officially records COVID-19 deaths comes as cases have soared across the country amid the loosening of restr...
22 Dec, 2022, 08.19 AM IST
No fresh Covid deaths in China after change in recording normsChina had recorded a total of seven deaths - all in Beijing - since the decision to lift the zero-Covid policy, but removed one death from ...
22 Dec, 2022, 12.27 AM IST
EXPLAINER-Shanghai death numbers raise questions over its COVID accountingShanghai had reported no COVID-19 deaths for more than a month after the current outbreak began in early March. But deaths suddenly started...
28 Apr, 2022, 12.44 PM 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 reports first Covid deaths since start of lockdownThe statement said two of the dead were women aged 89 and 91, while the third was a 91-year-old man.
18 Apr, 2022, 08.16 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
China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a yearChina reported 2,157 new COVID-19 cases from community transmission on Saturday, with the majority in Jilin. The province has instituted a ...
19 Mar, 2022, 09.55 AM IST
China re-imposes travel curbs in Guangdong province after new Covid cases emergePeople leaving Guangdong by plane, train, bus or private car after 10 p.m. on Monday must present results of a nucleic acid test within the...
31 May, 2021, 11.09 AM IST
Now, Mumbai overtakes China in corona deaths and casesThe country's commercial capital, Mumbai currently has 4,938 COVID-19 deaths and 85,724 cases, while China has a total of 4,634 fatalities ...
07 Jul, 2020, 01.54 PM IST