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What's changed as China relaxes strict Covid rules
Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)
Here are some of the major changes announced by Beijing's National Health Commission: - Home quarantine - People infected with Covid but with mild or no symptom...
Warmer noses are better at fighting colds: study
Dec 06, 2022 (AFP)
Reasons for this include people gather inside more in winter, and viruses survive better in low-humidity indoor air. But there has been less certainty about whe...
German court rejects challenge to EU Covid fund
Dec 06, 2022 (AFP)
Germany last year ratified the 750-billion-euro ($790-billion) fund, which offers loans and grants to EU countries hit hardest by the pandemic. The court in Kar...
Blinken hopes China strategy works on Covid
Dec 06, 2022 (AFP)
"We want China to get Covid right. It's profoundly in our interest that that happen," Blinken told an event organized by The Wall Street Journal. "It's in the i...
After doom and gloom, China's propaganda shifts gears on Covid
Dec 05, 2022 (AFP)
Long anchored to a hardline strategy of mass lockdowns, forced quarantine in centralised facilities and mass testing for millions, Beijing is dialling down curb...
Chinese cities relax testing rules as zero-Covid policy eases
Dec 05, 2022 (AFP)
Local authorities across China have begun a slow rollback of the restrictions that have governed daily life for years, encouraged by the central government's or...
China signals zero-Covid relaxation after protests
Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)
Anger over China's zero-Covid policy -- which involves mass lockdowns, constant testing and quarantines even for people who are not infected -- has sparked prot...
Clashes in south China as authorities warn of 'crackdown'
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
China's top security body warned late on Tuesday night that authorities would "crack down" following the protests, which are the most widespread since pro-democ...
China has room for further 'recalibration' of zero-Covid policy: IMF
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
Demonstrations against the measures have erupted across major Chinese cities in recent days, in a rare outpouring of public frustration not seen since pro-democ...
China says to accelerate push to vaccinate elderly against Covid-19
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement comes after a weekend of protests demanding an end to the country's strict zero-Covid policy, which responds to even small caseloads with harsh...
Taiwan couple charged for 'bribing' voters with Chinese Covid tests
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
Chiu Jui-lien and her husband are reportedly the first indicted for violating the "anti-infiltration law" aimed at countering influence from China -- which view...
Biden monitoring China Covid unrest as US rallies pop up
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
The comments came after hundreds of people took to the streets in China's major cities over the weekend, in a rare outpouring of public frustration that has spr...
China's Xinjiang eases some Covid measures after protests
Nov 28, 2022 (AFP)
People in the city of four million, some of whom have been confined to their homes for weeks on end, can travel around on buses to run errands within their home...
Protests in Shanghai as anger mounts over China's zero-Covid policy
Nov 27, 2022 (AFP)
A deadly fire on Thursday in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang region, spurred an outpouring of anger as many social media users blamed lengthy ...
Protests across China as anger mounts over zero-Covid policy
Nov 27, 2022 (AFP)
A deadly fire on Thursday in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang region, has spurred an outpouring of anger as many social media users blamed leng...
'Army of orphans': The price of S.Africa's AIDS scourge
Nov 25, 2022 (AFP)
He was left to raise his two young brothers -- a gruelling battle against isolation, stigma and poverty. Gamede, now aged 28, points to pictures of his parents ...
China's 'iPhone city' under Covid lockdown after violent clashes
Nov 25, 2022 (AFP)
Authorities have ordered residents of eight districts in Zhengzhou, in the central province of Henan, not to leave the area for the next five days, setting up b...
China's 'iPhone city' tightens Covid rules after violent protests
Nov 24, 2022 (AFP)
Hundreds of workers took to the streets around the vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou on Wednesday, confronting hazmat-clad personnel wielding batons in a rare di...
China orders Covid lockdown in Zhengzhou after iPhone factory protests
Nov 24, 2022 (AFP)
Residents of Zhenghzhou's city centre cannot leave the area unless they have a negative Covid test and permission from authorities, and are advised not to leave...
China's daily Covid cases highest since pandemic began
Nov 24, 2022 (AFP)
The numbers are relatively small when compared with China's vast population of 1.4 billion and the caseloads seen in Western countries at the height of the pand...
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