In 2022, China’s GDP grew by just 3 per cent, the worst since the Mao era. Beijing: China lifted the ‘Zero Covid’ policy hoping it would give their citizens relief but it didn’t go well with migrant workers as they have to search for new jobs after being affected byRead More →
Workers help travellers fill out an electronic declaration of their COVID-19 health status in the international arrivals area at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, on January 9, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Many parts of China are already past their peak of COVID-19 infections, state media reported on JanuaryRead More →
People wearing face masks browse their phones as they look after their elderly relatives rest along a corridor of the emergency ward to receive intravenous drips at a hospital in Beijing, on January 5, 2023. Patients, most of them elderly, are lying on stretchers in hallways and taking oxygen whileRead More →
China’s state media played down the severity on January 3 of the COVID-19 wave surging over the country, with its scientists expected to give a briefing to the World Health Organization on the evolution of the virus later in the day. China’s abrupt U-turn on COVID controls on Dec. 7,Read More →
Hospitals and crematoriums across China have been overflowing with COVID patients and victims. File | Photo Credit: AP Chinese President Xi Jinping urged officials on December 26 to take steps to protect lives in his first public remarks on COVID-19 since Beijing dramatically loosened hardline containment measures this month. HavingRead More →
About three years ago, the original version of the coronavirus spread from China to the rest of the world and was eventually replaced by the Delta variant, then Omicron and its descendants, which continue plaguing the world today. File | Photo Credit: AP Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleashRead More →
A woman wearing a face mask and face shield walks past a Christmas tree outside a shopping mall, as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks continue in Shanghai, China, on December 22, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Shanghai authorities urged residents to stay at home this weekend, seeking a toned-down Christmas inRead More →
December 21, 2022 04:22 pm | Updated December 22, 2022 07:45 am IST – TAIPEI, Taiwan Medical workers in protective gear escort an elderly patient on a wheelchair followed by family members as they leave a fever clinic at a hospital in Beijing on Monday. | Photo Credit: AP ChinaRead More →
People wearing protective suits wait at a waiting hall of a railway station, after the government eased curbs on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) control, in Wuhan, Hubei province, ChinaDecember 11, 2022. | Photo Credit: Martin Pollard China said Monday it would retire an app used to track Covid-19 contacts, a milestoneRead More →
