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HSBC chief backs Hong Kong's coronavirus isolation

Nov 18, 2021 (AFP)

Hong Kong has maintained some of the world's harshest quarantine measures and travel restrictions during the pandemic. The strategy has kept infections low but ...

Beijing tightens Covid-19 entry rules ahead of Olympics

Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)

With less than 100 days to go to the games in February, China is bracing for a challenge to its zero-Covid strategy when thousands of international athletes des...

Fatigue and frustration as China presses strict zero-Covid strategy

Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)

The zero-Covid approach is unrelenting -- with border closures, targeted lockdowns and mass testing triggered sometimes by just one case. The cost and pain of t...

China donates 500,000 more vaccine doses to Syria

Nov 14, 2021 (AFP)

The latest shipment raises to almost two million the number of such deliveries to Syria in a week. Less than two percent of Syria's population have been vaccina...

Beijing seals off mall, housing compounds over virus outbreak

Nov 11, 2021 (AFP)

China has largely curbed widespread transmission of the coronavirus through snap lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions, but authorities are on high al...

Chinese city offers cash for clues in Covid 'people's war'

Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)

China reported 43 local cases on Tuesday in a Delta-driven surge that has fanned out to 20 provinces and regions, keeping new case numbers in the double-digits ...

Chinese journalist jailed over Covid reports 'close to death'

Nov 05, 2021 (AFP)

Zhang Zhan, 38, a former lawyer, travelled to Wuhan in February 2020 to report on the chaos at the pandemic's epicentre, questioning authorities' handling of th...

'Stock up', China says, amid new Covid outbreak

Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)

A notice posted on the website of the Ministry of Commerce late on Monday urged "families to store a certain amount of daily necessities as needed to meet daily...

Study: Air flow 'dead zones' in public restrooms may boost spread of COVID-19

Nov 02, 2021 (UPI)

Computer simulations of airflow within a public restroom show that infectious aerosols in dead zones, where air does not flow, can linger up to 10 times longer ...

China rejects 'political, false' US report on Covid origins

Oct 31, 2021 (AFP)

The Chinese foreign ministry's retort came days after the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a fuller version of its findings from a 90...

Putin lashes out at G20 over vaccines

Oct 30, 2021 (AFP)

"Despite the decisions of the G20, not all countries in need can have access to anti-Covid vaccines," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in video message com...

China cracks down over 'serious' Covid outbreak

Oct 30, 2021 (AFP)

China's leading epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said Saturday that authorities could contain a nationwide outbreak within a month -- but also warned the "pandemic ...

G20 host: We must vaccinate 70 pct of world by mid-2022

Oct 30, 2021 (AFP)

"We are very close to meeting the WHO's target of vaccinating 40 percent of the global population by the end of 2021. Now we must do all we can to reach 70 perc...

Third Chinese city placed under Covid lockdown

Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)

The country has taken a zero tolerance approach to the virus since it first emerged in central China in 2019, stamping out emerging flare-ups with border closur...

China locks down city of four million over Covid cases

Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)

Beijing imposed strict border controls after the coronavirus was first detected in China in late 2019, slowing the number of cases to a trickle and allowing the...

Beijing launches new mass testing wave after four Covid cases found

Oct 22, 2021 (AFP)

China has maintained a staunch zero-Covid strategy with strict border closures, lengthy quarantines and targeted lockdowns. But the world's most populous nation...

Flights cancelled, schools closed as China fights virus outbreak

Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)

Beijing has maintained a relentless zero-Covid approach with strict border closures and targeted lockdowns, even as other countries tentatively try to ease rest...

Beijing rolls out Covid-19 booster shots ahead of Olympics

Oct 20, 2021 (AFP)

China has fully vaccinated more than one billion people -- more than 78 per cent of the population -- as of mid-September, according to the National Health Comm...

Pfizer says Omicron booster is effective against BA.5 COVID-19 subvariant

Oct 13, 2021 (UPI)

"The early data suggest that our bivalent vaccine is anticipated to provide better protection against currently circulating variants than the original vaccine,"...

Pentagon orders all civilian employees to be fully vaccinated by Nov. 22

Oct 04, 2021 (UPI)

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks issued the order in a memorandum without stating the consequences for employees who do not meet this deadline. Hicks sai...