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China megacity mass-tests, cancels flights after suspected Covid case
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
China is facing its worst outbreak since the peak of the first wave in early 2020, with eastern Shanghai recording dozens of daily deaths and the capital Beijin...
Climate change creating new virus hotspots 'in our backyard'
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
There are currently at least 10,000 viruses that have the capacity to cross over into humans "circulating silently" among wild mammals, mostly in the depths of ...
China detects first human case of H3N8 bird flu
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
H3N8 is known to have been circulating since 2002 after first emerging in North American waterfowl. It is known to infect horses, dogs and seals, but has not pr...
China's low Covid death toll prompts questions
Apr 26, 2022 (AFP)
Shanghai, China's largest city, has logged 190 deaths among more than 520,000 infections in nearly two months -- a fraction of the rate in outbreaks fuelled by ...
Beijing expands mass testing as lockdown fears grow
Apr 26, 2022 (AFP)
Under its zero-Covid policy, China has used lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions to stamp out infections. Its biggest city, Shanghai, has been almost...
Beijing Covid spike prompts mass testing, panic buying
Apr 25, 2022 (AFP)
China is already trying to contain a wave of infections in its biggest city Shanghai, which has been almost entirely locked down for weeks and reported 51 new C...
China Covid death toll rises as Beijing warns of 'grim' situation
Apr 24, 2022 (AFP)
The world's second-largest economy has been struggling to stamp out its worst outbreak in two years with a playbook of harsh lockdowns and mass testing as it st...
China's censors scrub viral Shanghai lockdown video from online platforms
Apr 23, 2022 (AFP)
About 25 million residents in Shanghai have been shut in their homes since early April, as officials rush to curb its worst ever outbreak since the beginning of...
Shanghai official Covid death toll rises to 25
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
China's largest city and commercial engine is inching towards reopening after weeks-long restrictions kept most of its 25 million people confined to their homes...
Shanghai's cautious awakening from Covid lockdown
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
Barricaded storefronts and a makeshift hair salon in an empty swimming pool greeted her on a surreal foray into a Chinese commercial capital yawning back to lif...
Shanghai cautiously eases lockdown as deaths rise
Apr 20, 2022 (AFP)
China's largest city is inching towards reopening as businesses and residents grow increasingly desperate over closures and food shortages. Faced with the count...
Shanghai reports more Covid deaths as officials push work resumption
Apr 19, 2022 (AFP)
Supply chains have clogged and businesses have been forced to halt production in the metropolis of 25 million, as authorities cling to a zero-Covid approach to ...
Shanghai reports seven more Covid deaths since start of lockdown
Apr 19, 2022 (AFP)
City authorities revealed the first deaths of this outbreak on Monday, with Tuesday's fatalities bringing the official toll to just 10, even as the virus contin...
Shanghai reports first Covid deaths since start of lockdown
Apr 18, 2022 (AFP)
Authorities said the first deaths from China's biggest outbreak since the virus wave in Wuhan over two years ago were three people aged 89 to 91, all of whom ha...
Shanghai residents scuffle with police over virus policy
Apr 15, 2022 (AFP)
The city of 25 million and China's economic engine room has become the heart of the country's biggest outbreak since the peak of the first virus wave in Wuhan o...
Shanghai locals sleep at work and ration food as lockdown bites
Apr 12, 2022 (AFP)
Anticipating that creeping closures would catch him out, Romeo decamped to the Pudong district in Shanghai's east in late March shortly before the city shut dow...
US orders non-essential consulate staff to leave Shanghai
Apr 12, 2022 (AFP)
China has stuck to a policy of "zero Covid", aiming to eliminate all infections through rigid shutdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions. But the policy ha...
Iraq says 7 dead from Congo fever since start of 2021
Apr 11, 2022 (AFP)
"Over the past year and the first months of this year, we have counted seven deaths and an eighth person who is seriously ill in the province of Dhi Qar," said ...
Shanghai starts easing lockdown in some neighbourhoods
Apr 11, 2022 (AFP)
Authorities said they would gradually begin to allow those in areas with the least number of virus cases to leave their communities, although it was unclear how...
China slams US virus 'accusations' as Shanghai lockdown drags on
Apr 10, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing's zero-Covid strategy has come under strain since March as over 100,000 cases in Shanghai have seen its 25 million inhabitants locked down in phases, in...
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