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'Sick of everything': Beijingers fed up with tightening restrictions
Nov 23, 2022 (AFP)
As infections in Beijing surge, residents are increasingly fed up with navigating vague, shifting restrictions and exhausted by the uncertainty of how long they...
Confusion, fear cloud China's path out of zero-Covid
Nov 22, 2022 (AFP)
China is the only major economy still attempting to stamp out the domestic spread of the virus, shutting down entire cities and placing contacts of infected pat...
Beijing sees record Covid cases as China outbreak spirals
Nov 22, 2022 (AFP)
More than 28,000 new infections were reported nationwide -- nearing the record high since the pandemic began -- with Guangdong province and the city of Chongqin...
China records first Covid death since May
Nov 20, 2022 (AFP)
The last major economy still welded to stamping out Covid flare-ups, China has enforced lockdowns, mass testing and quarantines even as the rest of the world ad...
Chinese cities cancel mass Covid tests in easing of measures
Nov 16, 2022 (AFP)
The National Health Commission (NHC) on Friday issued 20 rules for "optimising" zero-Covid, where certain restrictions were relaxed to limit its social and econ...
Hundreds protest southern China Covid lockdowns
Nov 15, 2022 (AFP)
Videos circulating on social media since Monday night and verified by AFP showed hundreds taking to the street in the industrial metropolis of Guangzhou, some t...
China eases Covid measures, cutting quarantine and scrapping flight bans
Nov 11, 2022 (AFP)
The country is the last major economy welded to a strategy of stamping out virus flare-ups as they occur, through a combination of snap lockdowns, mass testing ...
'Death every day': Fear and fortitude in Uganda's Ebola epicentre
Nov 11, 2022 (AFP)
Bidding the dead goodbye is rarely a quiet affair in Uganda, where the bereaved seek solace in the embrace of community members who converge on their homes to m...
China's leaders recommit to 'unswerving' zero-Covid policy
Nov 10, 2022 (AFP)
China is the last major economy wedded to a policy of extinguishing outbreaks as they emerge, imposing snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines desp...
China's COVID cases at six-month high despite grinding lockdowns
Nov 07, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing over the weekend quashed hopes that its strict zero-Covid policy -- in which spot lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing are employed to quash outbreak...
Escape from Foxconn: Workers recount Covid chaos at iPhone factory
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
In early October, supervisors suddenly warned him that 3,000 colleagues had been taken into quarantine after someone tested positive for Covid-19 at the factory...
China authorities apologise after boy dies in Covid lockdown
Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)
The northwestern city of Lanzhou has been locked down for nearly a month under China's harsh zero-Covid policy, which has seen millions of people across the cou...
China imposes Covid lockdown on 600,000 people around iPhone plant
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
All people except Covid-prevention volunteers and essential workers "must not leave their residences except to receive Covid tests and emergency medical treatme...
Hundreds in Tibetan capital stage rare protest against Covid lockdowns
Oct 28, 2022 (AFP)
Lhasa has been locked down for nearly three months in accordance with China's zero-Covid strategy, which sees millions of residents across the country repeatedl...
EU calls for 'ambitious targets' ahead of COP27 summit
Oct 24, 2022 (AFP)
The 27 member states acknowledged that "global ambition must increase substantially" to keep Paris Agreement temperature goals within reach. The text urges coun...
China scrubs reports of teen quarantine death from internet
Oct 21, 2022 (AFP)
China is the last major country committed to a zero-tolerance Covid strategy, responding to dozens of outbreaks with lockdowns and sending entire neighbourhoods...
Covid-hit HK banking summit attendees allowed to fly out; Govt broke law scrapping exemptions
Oct 21, 2022 (AFP)
The comments followed media reports that attendees -- expected to include top executives from some of the world's most powerful financial institutions -- would ...
Uganda Ebola epidemic death toll climbs to 44: WHO
Oct 19, 2022 (AFP)
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press briefing in Geneva that there had been 60 confirmed and 20 probable cases, with 44 deaths and 25 recoveries. "...
Climate change may boost Arctic 'virus spillover' risk
Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)
Viruses need hosts like humans, animals, plants or fungi to replicate and spread, and occasionally they can jump to a new one that lacks immunity, as seen durin...
Chinese state media signals no end to zero-Covid curbs
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
The messaging dashes widespread hopes from the Chinese public and overseas observers that the strategy might be relaxed after the congress, a twice-a-decade pol...
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