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US warns of 'arbitrary' Covid measures in China
Apr 09, 2022 (AFP)
Until March, China had kept cases low with snap lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions, but more than 100,000 cases have been reported in Shanghai sinc...
China's health system faces raft of challenges as Omicron hits
Apr 09, 2022 (AFP)
One of the last countries sticking to a zero-Covid strategy, China aims to stamp out every infection with strict lockdowns and by sending all cases to secure fa...
Xi praises China's virus handling as Shanghai prepares 130,000 Covid beds
Apr 08, 2022 (AFP)
Until March, China had kept cases low with localised lockdowns, mass testing, and strict restrictions on international travel. But the country has reported thou...
US OKs departure of non-essential personnel from Shanghai due to Covid
Apr 08, 2022 (AFP)
The families of all US personnel are also allowed to leave, the State Department said in a statement. The agency warned US citizens against traveling to Shangha...
Shanghai social media unpicks China's virus lockdown story
Apr 07, 2022 (AFP)
The world's most populous country is glued to an aggressive "zero-Covid" strategy, with Beijing extracting political value from China's relatively low death rat...
Shares soar in Chinese drugmaker after positive Covid drug trials
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
Shares closed up more than 100 percent in Hong Kong after the group said its new pill dramatically reduced the risk of hospitalisation or death from Covid-19, p...
Hong Kong police arrest six for sedition over court 'nuisance'
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
Court disruptions are usually dealt with under contempt rules but authorities have chosen to deploy sedition, a charge treated as a national security offence. P...
China reports most virus cases since pandemic start
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
The country's "zero-Covid" strategy has come under immense strain as cases spike, with around 25 million residents of Shanghai -- China's largest city and econo...
Shanghai defends policy of separating Covid-positive kids from parents
Apr 04, 2022 (AFP)
Around 25 million people remain locked down in China's largest city and financial centre, as authorities try to snuff out the country's most severe virus outbre...
China reports 13,146 Covid cases as outbreak spreads
Apr 03, 2022 (AFP)
"There were 1,455 patients with symptoms .... 11,691 asymptomatic cases... and no new deaths reported," the National Health Commission said in a statement. In C...
China reports 13,000 Covid cases, most since end of Wuhan's first wave
Apr 03, 2022 (AFP)
China's "zero-Covid" strategy is under extreme pressure as the virus whips across the country. Until March, China had successfully kept the daily caseload down ...
Shanghai parents fear separation from kids after positive Covid test
Apr 02, 2022 (AFP)
The city, which is the epicentre of China's most severe Covid outbreak since the first months of the pandemic, has faced weeks of phased lockdowns. Authorities ...
Shanghai residents frustrated by food shortages, prolonged lockdowns
Apr 01, 2022 (AFP)
After initially vowing they would avoid a city-wide lockdown, officials changed tack this week and announced a phased shutdown which divided China's financial c...
Shanghai harvests memes from lockdown veg shortage
Apr 01, 2022 (AFP)
Those navigating the city's thicket of Covid-19 restrictions to go shopping this week found long queues and empty shelves as panic-buying outpaced re-supply. Th...
Shanghai official says virus response lacking as city grinds to halt
Mar 31, 2022 (AFP)
The eastern megacity of 25 million has been split in two as part of a rolling lockdown plan to battle China's worst outbreak in two years. The spread of the Omi...
Tale of two cities as Shanghai goes into slow-motion lockdown
Mar 30, 2022 (AFP)
Across the Huangpu river which bisects the city, Maria is making the most of her diminishing freedom with dinners out before Friday when her side -- Puxi -- is ...
Anxiety and empty shelves as Shanghai Covid-19 cases surge
Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)
Millions endured a second day of lockdown after authorities effectively split the country's biggest urban area in two, with residents of the city's eastern half...
Empty shelves and anxiety as Shanghai Covid-19 cases surge
Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)
Millions endured a second day of lockdown after authorities effectively split the country's biggest urban area in two, with residents of the city's eastern half...
Half of Shanghai in lockdown to curb Covid-19 outbreak
Mar 28, 2022 (AFP)
The move, announced late Sunday, caused a run on grocery stores by residents who have become exasperated with authorities' inability to snuff out the outbreak d...
Shanghai won't lock down despite Covid spike: official
Mar 26, 2022 (AFP)
Millions of Chinese in affected areas have been subjected to city-wide lockdowns by an Omicron-led outbreak that has sent daily case counts creeping ever-higher...
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